How do you experience life?
 

Does life feel like it is something you watch from inside your head that's going on outside?

Or does it feel like something you experience with you body in the physical?

for me it usually feels like the mind option, but I kinda wish it didn't so much.

I don't really understand the question, so I won't vote :S Are you asking if it feels like it's really happening or not?

Sort of. Are you always thinking in your mind, and just sort of going through the motions of life, or do you feel like you're really there and physically paying a lot of attention to the physical world. If that is clearer?

Both?? :xD: I do feel like I'm living it, but also anticipating the future. I still don't fully understand, I guess.

I'm sure everyone expiriences it as a mixture of both.

My love for life comes from the mind, so I'm inclined to vote for that option.

Both - I don't quite see how people can only actually think one way on this.

Body - life rarely feels like it comes from the mind and the mind alone for me - it always seems that the underlying flow is fundamentally something physical, rather than perception.

It's both for me. I think maybe we should have a both option so we can vote. ;)

I almost made a both, but I was curious which one you feel more

Which one is how you feel you primarily experience life?

How can it not be both. You process thoughts and what's going on around you with your mind and feel sensations through your body.

I don't think either way more or less - that was my point.

It's a mixture of both. But I voted mind because that's what it seems to lean towards nowadays. Sometimes it does seem like I'm just going through the motions instead of paying attention to the moment.

Also, idk how to make the poll change.

But Helicoradian, how often do you feel like you're just going through the motions, I feel like that nearly everyday. But I don't know how to stop. How do you make it feel more physical. I feel like my mind is always trying to block out a majority of physical feeling to get me through the day.

I suppose if I had to pick one because you can't put in another poll option I'd say mind. Only because when I think about what I've experienced it seems to make more impact, become clearer and I can relive the experiences in my mind. I always seem to be more of an observer one who observes things first.

I can't choose because I experince life with both of them. I'd say I experence life with the heart. Should have put that as a choice too.

I see the world through my mind and rarely experience it in the physical. The reason for this is that my mind makes an excellent hiding place from the horrors of the world. Alas, if only I could shuttle over to Pandora...

It happens very often, I think it's stress related. One year ago it wasn't a problem for me. But over the past few months it seems to have slowly become worse. Wish I could tell you the cure but I don't know :(

@heli, does it feel like you're mind is blocking out the physical just to get you through the day. Kind of like how on a run your mind will zone out and you won't remember your run, you will just be completely in your thoughts not feeling anything, except it happens all the time?

That's a good way to describe it. But it doesn't happen all the time, just most of the time.

The body is there to maintain the mind with nutrients and transport it to places. Other than that, it doesn't really have much use nor value. Then again maybe some people have use for their bodies, but mine is not as functional as I'd like it to be, so I have yet to find a suitable use for it.

Pretty much this, but I guess you meant to say that the mind makes an excellent hiding place from the horrors of the world? In its current form, that would mean that the horrors of the world have a good hiding place in your mind.

Yep, that's what I meant.

I take life as it comes.

That's all I can think of atm, and none of the poll options fits me.

I've had periods where one or the other was more dominant, but for most of my life they have been pretty equal.

I would add an option that said "Neither outweighs the other in any sense"

And @heli, yes it is not all the time, only a majority of the time. Do you ever feel like you have a "phase in" where everything looks so clear and vivid, and you feel physically here on earth, but then you slip back into your mind?