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Which was just, there's nothing else interesting going on, and when we die, we just die.

And that's, like, that was it.

That was my belief.

And then it was, like, I just had to kind of live with this huge, like...

shape that doesn't fit.

Like it was just like, oh, there's this giant puzzle piece of an experience I had that does not, that doesn't work.

Which for a while I kind of just didn't deal with, but have since like, I feel like it has since opened my mind a bit more to what other things might be going on around us.

Like there's a lot of feelings and sensations and things that happen that like are

are really not something I should be able to just throw away or that I could just discount.

Yeah, I guess your brain is capable of a lot of interesting stuff, but this was a very weird collection of things for it to do.

I do feel like this podcast has actually helped me kind of open my mind to there being more going on as well, especially as I've listened to it.

I think that's maybe helped me have more of a framework for some of these experiences.

When they're not this crazy wild puzzle piece you can't fit into anything, it's a little bit, it feels better and easier and it makes more sense.

It's a more coherent picture.

It's like, okay, I feel like I'm closer to understanding what might actually be going on now.

I really feel like we live in such an almost just strange, kind of whimsical sort of world.

Like, I didn't feel that way about it before, but I do now, because, like, there's some weird stuff going on.

And, like, we're having dreams, and some people see the future, and, like...

Every night you go to sleep and you go somewhere else and like we're all, that's fine.

Like that's wild to me that like we're just like, oh yeah, you're conscious.