`RobotBuddha` [Thread]

As a teen I was heavily into "psychic" phenomenon. To the point where
I'd even managed to convince myself that I was psychic. Even getting
actual hallucinations with out of body experiences. And then I read a
book by susan blackmoore, a former parapsychologist. She introduced me
to common sense experiments with actual strict methodology behind them.
Surprise ending, I realized that not only wasn't I psychic, nobody was!

Absolute loss of the foundations of my worldview. Sure, I wasn't very
old. But this had been something that was the center of how I'd
perceived the world for a pretty large part of my young adult life. To
the point of influencing not only what I did, but who I hung out with,
dated, etc. To this day I'm pretty proud of young me for going with the
truth instead of retreating back into what would have been a far easier
path of denial.

There was some good and bad in that. The bad was that I lost some
friends, and the girl I was dating at the time. The good was that it
influenced me to get into psychology after graduating. With a heavy
focus on learning just how the human mind manages to fool itself in
situations like that.

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