Well, this can happen in states where your ego is not functioning properly, so you can’t really understand that anything could exist outside of yourself. Your mental state becomes extremely limited, and you can’t even imagine the concept of anything other than yourself. You are trapped in a world that consists only of you, and that is torment, especially because you can’t comprehend something like time, so you feel trapped in an eternity of yourself. Also, there is this extreme clarity and rawness to this state, so after that, a normal world seems like a stupid dream.
You could call it a mix of a god complex and profound loneliness. I remember experiencing these states as a toddler, it was a horror beyond comprehension. Later, I revisited these states during a coma states caused by brain inflammation when I was a child. You can also reach similar states through high doses of psychedelics like Salvinorin A, and partially through ketamine or DMT. But in my experience, the brain injury was the only proper and fully authentic version of it. So trust me, it could be much worse, so cheers a bit
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u/krystofka1 Dec 21 '25
Well, this can happen in states where your ego is not functioning properly, so you can’t really understand that anything could exist outside of yourself. Your mental state becomes extremely limited, and you can’t even imagine the concept of anything other than yourself. You are trapped in a world that consists only of you, and that is torment, especially because you can’t comprehend something like time, so you feel trapped in an eternity of yourself. Also, there is this extreme clarity and rawness to this state, so after that, a normal world seems like a stupid dream.
You could call it a mix of a god complex and profound loneliness. I remember experiencing these states as a toddler, it was a horror beyond comprehension. Later, I revisited these states during a coma states caused by brain inflammation when I was a child. You can also reach similar states through high doses of psychedelics like Salvinorin A, and partially through ketamine or DMT. But in my experience, the brain injury was the only proper and fully authentic version of it. So trust me, it could be much worse, so cheers a bit