'SCENARIO 1  FOCUS ON YOUR FEELING PROCESS HERE  Your significant other just ended your 2 year relationship quite suddenly and with no apparent explanation. Up until this point you had both been...|||I have thoughts about this. Just reactions, fantasies, or feelings I have or have had that feel related to this--energizing thing. :P  1) I like to listen to music. I like quiet music, but I like...|||Those people's perspective (or me in their shoes):  I guess it would be like if I had a video game I really liked and my friends liked. And then someone else I know comes over, and he's an expert...|||Thanks for looking out for me--I appreciate you.  Yeah, this thread is fluffy and I don't want to ruin that vibe. :P Feels kind of like cursing inside a church. Let's PM|||I'm sorry. I just want to be like a flower. A flower doesn't have a point.  My bed is soft. Maybe that's the point of it, but I don't feel that softness unless I actually lie in my bed and let my...|||That's all I got. If it's not helpful, then disregard it.|||Yeah, you're right. I wish it was shorter. Here's something slightly shorter I wrote just now.  Rare beauty  I understand that you feel alienated and downtrodden because you have desires that...|||Hey--why not|||I like frumpy girls because their souls are usually stunningly gorgeous. :P And the whole plain, simple, down-to-earth, comfortable feeling...it's like they're relaxed, I feel relaxed, and we can...|||This...   Music reflects who I am when I need a mirror Music assures me that someone else feels what I feel, whatever energy I happen to be Music comforts me when I feel estranged Music speaks...|||Skip Beat is still happening! I squee like a little fan-girl every time a new chapter comes out :P|||Future Days by Can|||A) I made friends by haunting certain threads or sub-forums and spending time there with some other people who did the same. Or someone posts something or I post something and we feel similar, so I...|||I came here to nominate Nick Drake...thanks, now I get a second choice. :)  I'm going to nominate Talk Talk.  I want to suggest that someone else nominate Can.|||http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4567359473650328&pid=15.1|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pRi2Y6hpOU|||My favorites:  Atmospheric sludge metal  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awg99tk6vys Ethereal wave  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=karRE54LCCA Post-punk|||My favorites are probably Nana, Akagi, and Berserk.|||piano improv  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxtY3qJK5hA|||I was avoiding masturbation for several weeks, but I broke it this morning -- which I'm very sure is what drew me to this thread. ;)  Pro-Celibacy  The positive effects that I have noticed from...|||If it feels like an insurmountable amount to study, then bracketing or chunking it into smaller units might be good (divide and conquer).  Along that same vein, I tend to attack the easier,...|||Holy shit--Suede is my favorite. (I was 5 years old at the time that they were playing with Bernard Butler, so I can't say I remember them. But I found them a couple years ago.)|||I just want to also give you a hug and flowers and bracelets and everything pretty under the sun. I hope that even if there are many unsafe people and places, there is still a place or time every so...|||I feel like there's a perfectionism here that I can relate to, which is I don't want to put energy/effort into something unless if it truly meaningful and worth doing. And I don't want to settle for...|||mer sang non harsh'd her hallow was sharp'ned breez'd crisp flung--ack remount ere  bu o hao hir so wa|||Yes, I feel like that meaninglessness used to affect me very strongly. The hot issues that made me angry/depressed were animal welfare and global poverty. I guess my thinking was similar:  There...|||give yourself a hug. :) feeling panicky and sickish isn't fun, whatever the reason.  something i do a lot nowadays is breathe (sit still and 4 counts in, 8  counts out, then try to make counts...|||I haven't had a strong enough reason to learn lucid dreaming, but it seems like a skill that's open for the taking LD4all - the lucid dreamers community. Guide on lucid dreams, dream control,...|||Aha... :D  Good shit...a new chance to steamroll those punks commonly referred to as peers.  Lots of delicious souls left for the ghost collection...they'll see how they like being...|||I don't have any experience with this, so I only have imagination. But I don't like seeing a post without responses.  I can't tell you to do something that I haven't done or felt. I feel like I'm...|||The atheist pantheon (hehe) talking about numinous experiences:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PhmUyFUFyk  What they seem to say is that there are certain spiritually significant experiences...|||These are some things that I think you've either said or hinted at that I can agree with, and that I think many religious people might be able to agree with also.     Some religious...|||This is an ongoing issue for me too.  The medium-term way in which I'm coping is by just not accessing the good parts of myself as often. It's not a final solution, but it's a stopgap measure that...|||I've always been very selective about my close friends, even if I might  have many acquaintances or try to be generally friendly on a shallow  level. If you have expectations that are important to...|||It's sometimes good to find things out, even if you don't act on them immediately. Like you said, it's nice to know more about what you want or what you're interested in. Some questions I might ask:...|||I feel like you've explained it pretty well  intrusion -calling several times a day including work -stalking as you put it -trying to move in (and i guess it feels like ignoring your feelings if...|||Have you tried looking at the anger/annoyance? It's something I've felt before to be upset with someone, but not really able to express that or feel like I'm able to fully escape/resolve the...|||I feel like when I'm good at navigating social situations, it's if I have a kind of confidence that I'm a decent, good, adequate person; I have good things and positive energy to share with others;...|||I'm not sure I have much to contribute, but I just saw there were no responses to this yet.  I do music, though not for my job. I feel like I tend to approach my job and music differently. With my...|||(Thanks for understanding that I change.) Yeah, it's cool to meet  nice people who bring out the best in you and vice versa. I hope  whatever care or sadness you have can be of benefit.    Yeah,...|||I love you for saying this.  scientists very wordy. words are all-mighty--you bow to the method, or  you're heinously out of step, and you'll be bludgeoned. the logic is  excoriating--nothing but...|||LOLLL...that dog is seriously no joke.  Dog: [eyes turn yellow] A warning, human. The Hour is near for the Sacrifice of the young maidens. Their blood of terror shall be collected into the Ten...|||I am in an arctic escape, and the poison enters me. But, it passes through me, because I am made of water. I am sitting either by myself or with a person I highly highly trust. In a safe place where...|||I remember reading that only 70% of HSP's are introverts.  Oh, and I like your avatar. :)|||There is a certain kind of unspecific dis-ease that comes from being at a desk wearing clothes that don't fit. A sort of chronic deflation wherein I imagine that because I am rewarded for pretending,...|||Global 5: sloan RLOAI;   sloan+ |R|loai; primary Reserved;  R(74%)L(62%)O(60%)A(66%)I(56%)  RLOAI                  (3.1% of women; 2.3% of men)                                                ...|||A Clockwork Orange...lololol  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-mDTdeKR8|||Right now, I'm pretty partial to The Velvet Underground, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Talk Talk, Suicide, Suede, David Bowie, Ride, and Captain Beefheart.|||Exactly where that trash belongs. :laughing:  j/k, I <3 ponies. Every time I see any posts by @Tawanda , I just get this big stupid grin on my face.  I tend to just mess around more than post...|||Your reasoning process is awesome. :proud:'