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by Venator of Verum

It's only when we die, that we are perfect and happy.

It's what we strive for.

 Speak for yourself. That's not what I strive for. I don't care about perfection or happiness. I rarely experience happiness, or sadness for that matter.

My only goal in life is to live each day as it comes and if I just happen to die tomorrow, well, shit happens.

Edit: Luna really needs to fix up this quoting thing.

 well, there is a subjective and an objective reality, while we can manipulate our subjective reality we must still maintain a balance with our peers subjective reality. but as the old adage goes if a wreck a 4 wheeler in the woods and we were the only ones to see it happen we can always blame it on wild life.

We can manipulate our reality to the extent that we can manipulate our peers reality.

 our body at one point or another totally recreates itself over time as every cell in our body dies over time and is replaced by new ones. the same thing happens with our neural connections, we are constantly recreating them.

That whole false recovered memory under hypnosis shows just how plastic memory can be. 

 If you want to change someones perception, hint and suggest. Later, speak with authority. It will seem to be the truth. Silkthread put up a thread about ambient abuse. This is the technique used by the ambient abuser.

You'd have to be gullible to fall for that crap though.

For three years there were certain people online trying to tell me I had this, that and every other fucking disorder that I know I don't have. Three years later, I still stand by my belief that I don't have them.

Symptoms don't suddenly develop just because someone else thinks you have them. That's the trick though, to convince them they do, lol.

More fool the idiot who falls for it.

I wonder it peolpe will learn someday to control or influence this. Create false memories in themselves or others. Scary thought. Could do a lot of well, but a lot of damage too if used in an abusive way.

 If one is capable of pulling off some self-hypnosis, alter your own memory, then take a polygraph test, would that stand a good chance of coming out negative?  Can one deceive one's self into believing their own lies?  As revealing as this can sound, that is actually a workable method to lie, in my own experience.  I can suspend my own disbelief long enough to tell something untrue and seem as though I utterly believe it's true.  I know I'm highly resistant to that kind of deception in return, or altercations of my own memory.  I don't believe anything someone says I did, when I don't think I did it.  I require evidence.  Otherwise, I'm a stubborn skeptic.  Try and convince me all you want about whatever you think is real, but I reflexively only believe what I think is real.  It's my reality, regardless of opinions.  No one makes up that reality but me, when it comes down to it, so I choose to believe what I want to.  Anybody else can go fuck themselves.  I don't ask others to believe me.  It's like some sort of fucked up religious dogma, trying to impress on you a perception that isn't consistent with your own.

To an extent, isn't this how some of the techniques used in sport psychology works? I had a coach that wanted us to use arousal regulation by vividly imagining a stressful moment and then focus on being relaxed while you let it play out in your head. The idea was that I would teach my body not to get (as) stressed when I finally ended up in that particular situation.

I'm aware this isn't as tangible as swapping concrete memories, but you are still altering the "memory" of a subconscious experience simply by thought alone, are you not?

 My sister creates false memories. Very vivid ones. The doctor explained to her that she does it so that she feels safe when that memory is triggered. She has put me in many memories where I wasn't even in the same state as her- at the time something traumatic occurred.

Edit: I guess I make her feel safe.