pselbre
A temporary state of altered perception, during which your mind focuses on unusual aspects of reality, free from any chemical influence (you haven't taken drugs). Something you may experience after watching an existential film or thinking about philosophical concepts; it's like the universe has changed colour slightly and everything is just a little different, then it fades and everything is normal.
I was chatting to this guy about the history of the English language, and I started getting this idea of the organic nature of speech and how all the languages bleed into and change each other, combining and separating to form subtle dialects which over time become completely unrecognisable to one another, and as I realised that this thing I had always seen as so solid and consistent behaved like a churning sea of words and meaning over hundreds of years, I was overcome with this feeling of pselbre. For a moment I thought I felt the scale and weight of uncountable generations in the words I spoke.
The ending of the Pixar movie Soul gave me a sense of pselbre when they started talking about how the meaning of life is really just existing at all and how we don't have a specific purpose. We don't need to exist for any reason, we just ARE. It was an idea so different to any I had ever thought that it spun me out, and for a while I just sat with my thoughts and smiled at how simple and beautiful it was.
Every time this kind of thing happened, I woke up the following morning feeling the same as I did before they happened, mostly unaffected, but with the memory of an altered view of the world.
The ending of the Pixar movie Soul gave me a sense of pselbre when they started talking about how the meaning of life is really just existing at all and how we don't have a specific purpose. We don't need to exist for any reason, we just ARE. It was an idea so different to any I had ever thought that it spun me out, and for a while I just sat with my thoughts and smiled at how simple and beautiful it was.
Every time this kind of thing happened, I woke up the following morning feeling the same as I did before they happened, mostly unaffected, but with the memory of an altered view of the world.