Intrusive thoughts are terrifying. It's a testament to our collective willpower that we haven't horrifically murdered each other.
Also, I'm really glad the phrase "intrusive thoughts" came along. It made the whole thing a lot easier to talk about.
Collective willpower? Or centuries worth of social contract? Humans are kind of just animals who can predict the future by writing down the past.
I've had some pretty nasty intrusive thoughts. I'd like to believe it's more than just social conditioning that kept them under wraps. But maybe.
I would like to believe that despite it is hard for most people not to have intrusive thoughts, it is much easier not to act on them.
our brains run simulations of awful situations all the time as a diagnostic self-test system. The fact that we recoil in revulsion from destructive intrusive thoughts is a sign that we are still at least nominally sane. Those who yearn for peace prepare for war. Likewise, those who care for their loved ones prepare to face terrible events that might befall them.
"why yes indeed brain, it would fucking suck if i jumped off this cliff, thank you for verifying that even if i had no plans of doing so anyways.."
These urges are what the Chao garden in sonic adventure was made for.
The call of the void. I think?
Seems similar enough. I thought it was more for random suicidal thoughts than ending someone else.
I have these kinds of thought all the time lol
We all do, intrusive thoughts and "call of the void" are basically your brain doing hypothetical situations to get better at prediction and other brain things (or at least that was the hypothesis last time I read about it)
Shin Sekai Yori is an light novel / anime about what happens when these thoughts have power and how a society might develop to control the destructive consequences of said thoughts.
Big Saturn energy
Someone learned about intrusive thoughts.
Intrusive thoughts like that must be human nature. I doubt there is a single person who has never had a single thought about something like that.
YEET
Am I the only one who doesn't do this?
Yes, you're the only one in the world. The chose one. The boy who survived.
One of the very few at least. Around 90% of people have these kind of thoughts from time to time.
Lol my mom and I have OCD. She's got a bit of this type, fortunately mine is a bit more of the I really really love filing and collecting things (data hoarding) borderline autistic type.
Unless you are in psychosis and then the intrusive thoughts win 😭
I have this all the time with my daughter and it scares me.
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