@Milk-Destroyer said in Sleep Paralysis Stories:

Benadryl trip.

When I was a teenager I tried the Benadryl thing (maybe 6-8 tablets) and occasionally took them to basically space out. You kind of forget where you're at. I was also really dizzy / slow. Then, lightning-like flashes were appearing when I closed my eyes, keeping me up late. Auditory noises that are probably totally imaginary kept happening and you kinda crack out. Do not recommend.

I've had sleep paralysis somewhat rarely but it is not predictable. I haven't been able to connect it to foods but I think eating late and low exercise / movement / alcohol play a factor. I almost never drink and eat earlier now so it isn't common.

I've definitely seen shadow figures, but that was more when I was younger. I would wager that the "boogeyman" is really just the product of sleep paralysis in children. The eyes are adjusted to the darkness so I think it's a natural state of fear if you believe you're awake and unable to move, then see a shadow or coat-rack and intuit a fearful situation.

More recently if I had sleep paralysis I felt I was trying to turn back into the dream but can't. Then, several times I felt like I was screaming at the top of my lungs and/or crying. I think the screaming is related to not being able to breathe from some temporary apnea/blocked nasal passage. The emotional distress is hard to explain because there's no cause, just the effect of feeling instant pain.

A good movie for everyone to watch is Altered States.
The movie definitely freaked me out in real life so of course things like that probably influence people's unconscious. The idea of a sensory deprivation tank, or of being in one, is awful, in my mind. What if somebody locks you in it - a coffin filled with water, while you're on LSD? Anyways - or how about A Perfect Storm? You see where I'm going - I think maybe sleep paralysis is very personal and is playing into individual fears and experiences.

But usually if it happens I wake up or dream that I wake up and go back to sleep and don't remember it. One should also not read too much Pessoa - terrifying stuff.

@war4512 said in Music through the bioenergetic way:

Music should not be viewed reductionistically but as broadly as possible. According to bioenergetic philosophy, music, if appropriate, can have positive metabolic inclinations; leading to increased aerobic glucose oxidation in the brain, as music can lower glucose levels, likely caused by neuronal activation at the limbic system level.

This is interesting.
The hard part about this is that the world is "music" when seen this way. It's hard to be around bad music when music is noise or loud conversations, etc. All of the elements of the world have some sonic / aural aspect, I think. Silence is a sound, I believe, as I also believe there are different types of silence. When Peat talks about stress, he isn't going at it from the psychological or sociological view in a technical way but I think those parts are important.

Music is a sort of "thinking with the senses." Or rather, when the senses begin to think. That's why I think there is open silence but also repressive/oppressive silence.

@the_black_jew

Agree, it's not a banger. Faithless is some banger material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QZhC8DUD_o

@Chud

lmfao
yeah, my buddy used to ring up lots of stuff as "parsley" for like $1. are you invisible? there are cameras and secret shoppers everywhere. invisibility is not Peaty. It's actually Potty / Harry Potter. Harry was occasionally Peaty but Snape was the ultimate Peater.

My comment is that I've read that metal music can help stress relief and is an aggression/cortisol mitigator. There are lots of studies out there confirming such things that can be easily found, to the surprise of most people. I've always loved metal and people usually tell me I'm very easygoing. As a musician, learning the music is very rewarding and challenging.

My theory/observation is that metal is akin to classical because it is often following strict rules as far as timing, technique, speed, etc. Purely as listening, though, I will note that it is not always the same thing as classical!

Most people say metal is noise. This means something because noise is obnoxious and painful. Ok, but let's say it isn't noise and that it's only noise to the untrained ear. Great. The next step is in demonstrating that it actually does take training to understand metal which is why so many guitarists and other musicians love metal, and pick up instruments to learn it in the first place.

As far as bioenergetic, I think it's something like catharsis. I believe a lot of rock and roll has a modus operandi of undressing a girl or getting high; it is not always truly energetic music. It is often serotonin and estrogen music. Whatever, plenty of metal is shit / serotonin/pufa/estrogenic sound too, so it's not that game I want to play.

It is bioenergetic in that it is technical and requires concentration, critical thinking, and literally, the Peat motto of "perceive, think, act." Extreme metal especially is often a game of identifying deceit or trickery. The notes can sometimes be literally "bedeviled" in the best way - tricking the ear and the mind. This reminds me of reading Peat's articles, and hearing things that maybe you don't want to hear. At the same time it is sort of like the proverbial abyss staring back at you.

I think the cathartic angle is related to this. The technical skills needed to play metal are very underrated. Our culture does not enjoy much classical or metal; both are pretty underground and niche, even though there are some major acts. And I don't think the technicality is an IQ thing, or anything necessarily. Music and metal is sort of like one of the vestiges of traditional lifestyles - like chopping wood or skinning a bear. It is tough and requires discipline.

For that matter, jazz and other genres require discipline! But to me there is something molecular-sounding about extreme metal. The "emotions" are always second to the discipline and method. So that's one of things I love about metal and how it seems bioenergetic. The notes and patterns are almost not important in and of themselves, but in relation to the whole of the song. Similar to how minerals, vitamins, fats, proteins, etc., are understood better taking Peat's big picture lenses of the body, world, and health.

@gg12

It's crazy that the best answer is sociological, in that, we're studying people who are essentially studying "us," the public of the world. Apparently the peasantry exists outside of a social contract, or, rather, within an unwritten social contract which contains harassment/ experimentation, physical, mental and otherwise.

The "enslavement" angle doesn't make much sense because the master/slave dialectic largely reveals how useful the slave is to the master. Now, changing what is good for the slave and the type of slave would factor into this. The economic angle on this is huge but too complex to address. In short, raw labor is still needed, but with outsourcing and "de-growth" policies, as well as technology, I think less labor is being done by humans. This means the new "labor" of the masses must be something futuristic or metaphysical and not purely extractive (though it could be reversed easily). Whether or not the Kalergi plan is real, it certainly seems that something very close to it is indeed taking place. Easily controlled mongrel populations.

Again, the experimentation / poisoning angle goes back to the question of who is running the experiment. Technically it is the oligarchs, to whom this physical Earth more or less belongs. The experiments of geo-engineering, EMFs, cloning, vaccines, etc., all of these things resemble a sort of ur-sacred "science" that leads me to the cringey belief that it is very secretive ancient worship as suggested in Egypt and Sumerian times. It is a common idea that those blood-lines are still in control. No way of proving it, but consider that all American presidents generally descend from England and are all distantly related. That's only 300 years. Did Rome ever "fall?" If wealth generally flows in family lines then, sure, this is probably somewhat accurate, as enemies are never entirely, 100% vanquished (ex: Germany after WWII).

It's an insidious answer... evil just is. "The show must go on," as they say. The saying "who controls the past now controls the future" is all about authorship, chronicling, history, thought, and language.

At some level it seems to be about maintaining economic control at any cost. The number of the beast is all about money, and money is all about alchemy, alchemy is about transmutation and control. So I guess it's all their "playbook."

@Insomniac

You're trolling hard.. lmao.
Maybe the guy likes the old nose candy.
That tends to age people pretty fast and they get wrinkly faces and lose weight.

@Insomniac

It's possible he didn't look great years ago, and the camera and makeup / filters has created the idea that he was aging very slowly.

@Insomniac said in The mystery Dr. Paul Saladino's shockingly rapid aging:

So the only explanation remaining is that he has contracted some terrible affliction. And if he's reading this post, this is about love over here at the bioenergetic forum. We are looking for a cure to your rapid aging disease so please don't sue (as he is allegedly prone to do).

He's a smart guy, nothing against him - he seems honest. But, is he not low or no-carb? This would seem to be a major problem.

@Insomniac said in The mystery Dr. Paul Saladino's shockingly rapid aging:

a good understanding of human physiology and the desire to live his life on camera giving health advice would knowingly do this to his own face. Did he not know about sun damage?

Idk man, these people are sort of "influencers" or celebrities, I don't take everything they say 100%. A good bit of it is just content and dramatization of real life. Not saying he's a liar but he's a personality.

Sun damage is real so yeah, that's probably part of it. But isn't he pretty new to the Peat side of things? Peat is a major revelation for all health perspectives. If he was on different diets and strict protocols he's probably biologically stressed. Maybe also being a bit famous is actually stressing?