Multiple "personalities" and split-brain experiments, etc

[excreationist]

It seems every time I've been hospitalised for manic episodes I wasn't sleeping properly for multiple nights including missing at least one entire night of sleep. Maybe the "personality" associated with responsibility and self-control (super-ego) got overpowered by a more passionate and delusional personality (id) as the hours went on....

Also in the year 2000 I read a book by Ken Keyes about how to be happy 100% of the time:

https://lifesplayer.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/misc/how-to-make-your-life-work-by-ken-keyes-and-tolly-burkan1.pdf

One key idea is to have preferences rather than addictive demands (so that you only have a neutral emotion if you don't get what you want)
Another is part of "the twelve pathways to unconditional love and happiness":

10. I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me

This caused me to stop having spoken thoughts. I'd just act intuitively and an unusual "loving" personality took over.... I wanted to help the world, etc, in my own weird way. It said something about playing a role in the game of life and I thought I'd just play whatever role I thought like at the time.

 

[excreationist]

Related to this topic:

Thought insertion - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Thought insertion is defined by the ICD-10 as the delusion that one's thoughts are not one's own, but rather belong to someone else and have been inserted into one's mind. The person experiencing thought insertion will not necessarily know where the thought is coming from, but makes a distinction between their own thoughts and those inserted into their minds. However, patients do not experience all thoughts as inserted; only certain ones, normally following a similar content or pattern.

I've never experienced it though it comes up in the interactive Netflix movie called "Black Mirror - Bandersnatch" which I'm quite obsessed about.
In Bandersnatch the character is reading a book with a chapter called "mind control conspiracies" - though I think the different personalities would be restricted to a single brain.... and that's how it would appear to skeptics (so I'll go with that view). Often Christians could believe that there could be thoughts inserted by demons, the devil or God, etc.

 

[bilby]

Related to this topic:

Thought insertion - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Thought insertion is defined by the ICD-10 as the delusion that one's thoughts are not one's own, but rather belong to someone else and have been inserted into one's mind. The person experiencing thought insertion will not necessarily know where the thought is coming from, but makes a distinction between their own thoughts and those inserted into their minds. However, patients do not experience all thoughts as inserted; only certain ones, normally following a similar content or pattern.

I've never experienced it though it comes up in the interactive Netflix movie called "Black Mirror - Bandersnatch" which I'm quite obsessed about.
In Bandersnatch the character is reading a book with a chapter called "mind control conspiracies" - though I think the different personalities would be restricted to a single brain.... and that's how it would appear to skeptics (so I'll go with that view). Often Christians could believe that there could be thoughts inserted by demons, the devil or God, etc.

Reminds me of There is no Antimemetics Division by qntm.

 

[excreationist]

Reminds me of There is no Antimemetics Division by qntm.

Hi I found the full text for free:

Antimemetics Division Hub - SCP Foundation

The SCP Foundation's 'top-secret' archives, declassified for your enjoyment.

scp-wiki.wikidot.com

And a Wikipedia article:

SCP Foundation - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Does it talk about thought insertion? Or is about a lack of thought insertion? The Wikipedia article talks about the paranormal and supernatural.

 

[bilby]

Reminds me of There is no Antimemetics Division by qntm.

Hi I found the full text for free:

Antimemetics Division Hub - SCP Foundation

The SCP Foundation's 'top-secret' archives, declassified for your enjoyment.

scp-wiki.wikidot.com

And a Wikipedia article:

SCP Foundation - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Does it talk about thought insertion? Or is about a lack of thought insertion? The Wikipedia article talks about the paranormal and supernatural.

It talks about both, and a bunch of other concepts. I recommend it very highly, and suspect that you would enjoy reading it - but if you don't, I will give you your money back (given that you read the free version)

 

[excreationist]

Reminds me of There is no Antimemetics Division by qntm.

Hi I found the full text for free:

Antimemetics Division Hub - SCP Foundation

The SCP Foundation's 'top-secret' archives, declassified for your enjoyment.

scp-wiki.wikidot.com

And a Wikipedia article:

SCP Foundation - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Does it talk about thought insertion? Or is about a lack of thought insertion? The Wikipedia article talks about the paranormal and supernatural.

It talks about both, and a bunch of other concepts. I recommend it very highly, and suspect that you would enjoy reading it - but if you don't, I will give you your money back (given that you read the free version)

Sorry I don't like reading fiction - especially lengthy fiction - perhaps partly because I am unable to visualise the scenes - also I have limited "working memory" making it hard to keep a track of the story (perhaps from shock treatment). Maybe you could give links to the relevant passages and preferably give a little summary. Thanks.