Suicides in the air?

[Ennio]

On the subject of being "beamed" with thoughts of suicide of whatever else, just a reminder that wearing silk as a protective measure may be of some help as mentioned here. Talking precautions using wifi, and perhaps wearing a silk scarf on one's head to sleep at night (along with silk pj's) should be looked into.

And then there's 'mental blocking' - knowing that these types thoughts are likely NOT your own and employing a little righteous anger in the direction of anyone or anything that would attempt to dissuade you from your chosen path.

 

[H-KQGE]

Brain errors/word processing errors, yes, but not this one in particular.

I mean, I imagine if things get bad, there will be a LOT of people offing themselves, unfortunately.

Indeed. But, from what I see around me every day, people are already offing themselves: with their diet, their addictions, their choices, their lifestyle, their behaviour. It is already happening. They're offing themselves. They're just doing it slowly.

(End of gloomy rant )

Really well said, Mrs Tigersoap. People are 'offing' themselves indeed to being helped to do so with disastrous dis-info and subtle lies. And I too have noticed some word-processing errors, but not this one.

Yup. The addictive behaviors, the myopic choices, & the suicidal diets are foremost in my mind everyday; I have to interact with people that I know are killing themselves "by convenience." Sometimes it's too much for me to listen to their nonsensical opinions (especially when it's religious based brainwashing ) on things & I have to leave the immediate area, so as to be out of earshot. But if, & when, they spout their views to others who are in the dark about a subject & the other party seem to be absorbing it, I have to step in & counter it with an objective empirical evidence-based rebuttal. It's the least I can do, regardless if the speaker doesn't like it.

Ok, so I haven't had the "suicide word-processing error(s)" but for a few weeks now, I've been reading similarly to the way waverider 9 & Rise described. I used to do speed-reading back before I got to grips with deep research (that abruptly stopped when I encountered Laura's work & the forum information!) & I used to sort of scan a paragraph. I haven't done that for years (well only sometimes on information I already know well) & it's only just recently started to crop up now & again. The most constant though, is reading titles or a key word that changes the context, & totally missing it as if it wasn't there. The last time this happened was a day or two on one of the threads (I think it was the now split-off Michael Jackson/Jim Clemente thread) & I was replying to a post & decided to push preview. (it was a short reply that I thought didn't need a preview) & I'm glad I did. A whole sentence just appeared & it was neatly spaced (as a separate paragraph) out too! That's when I knew something was up! Thankfully I use preview about 10 times before posting & I get sick of seeing my own post, I just want it gone! ;)

 

[Stoneboss]

So, a weird thing happened today.

We were sitting at breakfast, and Laura got another new book to read for her research/writing project. The title was "Studies of [SOMETHING]". Andromeda read the title as "Suicides of [SOMETHING]".

This struck me as rather interesting, because just 2 days ago, I was reading an article, and my brain sort of automatically replaced a word in the article with "suicide", which caused me to stop, rewind, and reread.

Then Possibility of Being told me 2 minutes later that while translating something, she accidentally translated some word into "suicide". This made the sentence incomprehensible, which she later discovered and went, "Huh?!"

Now, none of us are feeling suicidal, so it was an especially interesting coincidence that it happened to 3 people within a matter of days.

Then suddenly I remembered the recent banker "suicides"...

Is it some kind of beaming going on? Or maybe some kind of mass subconscious warning? I mean, I imagine if things get bad, there will be a LOT of people offing themselves, unfortunately. Maybe people are really feeling "it" coming. Or maybe it is some kind of beaming to activate something in some people, and the rest of us just receive it as "word processing errors".



Has anybody else noticed this particular brain error (or something similar) lately?

I encountered the same thing a couple of weeks ago. I was reading an article and read the word "suicide" instead of the real word, which started with an "s" (I don't remember which word it was). The sentence didn't make any sense so I re-read it and sure enough it was a different word. I remember thinking how bizarre that was. And now something else comes to mind, and I don't know if this is related or not, but I thought I would mention it. It concerns a car accident I was involved with nine days ago on Sunday.

I had just left work and was driving home. I was on the phone talking to my wife (hands free of course), just telling her I was on my way home. I was stopped at a red light, and for some strange reason I just started driving forward again while the light was still red! I was struck by an oncoming car on my left and hit the left front fender of my truck. I had quite a bit of damage to my truck and I'm pretty sure the other car has been "written off". Fortunately no one was injured. If the timing would have been just a split second different, I would have been hit directly on my driver side door and could have been seriously injured, or worse.

Of course I could have just been distracted because I was talking on the phone, but it's not like I was in a deep discussion or anything, I was simple telling my wife that I was on my way home. What I find really strange is that I remember looking up at the light, seeing that it was still red, and proceeded to drive looking straight ahead, completely oblivious of any cars that might be coming from any direction. There were several witnesses that saw it happen, and couldn't believe that I did what I did. It probably looked to them as though I had done it intentionally... Once again, I may just have been distracted, but right after it happened I had a strange feeling that there was something more to it, like I lost all awareness for a few moments...

 

[HowToBe]

Stoneboss: That is concerning! Glad you came out okay. A few days ago I had a close call while driving at night. I saw a light in the sky that seemed strange, so I glanced at it for a moment, realized it was an airplane, then when I looked back at the road I realized the group of cars ahead of me had stopped at a red light while I was going full speed! Luckily I had time to brake, and I moved into a turning lane to be extra safe. I considered it as a wake up call to be more vigilant. Ironically, I had been rushing to try and get to a store before it closed, but my near-miss actually delayed me and I almost didn't make it. Not sure there's any relation to the topic at hand, but maybe.

I started having/noticing a lot of "word processing errors" at one point somewhere in 2009-2011. I would actually see/read a different word that would seem to fit, only to skip back and find the actual text was different. I considered that it could be some kind of expanded consciousness or "reality glitches" (somewhat naively, I admit), but also that it could be health related.

Within the last week I did have a moment like that - I think I misread the name of a product in a store. I don't remember which words were involved, but the incorrect word was strange enough in the context that it made me laugh. Other than that I don't recall having this kind of "glitch" for a while.

 

[Kaigen]

Few days ago I had thoughts on suicide, I don't remember exactly where, but I remember they came suddenly and it appeared to me like not my thoughts, which I forgot quick. After this thread I remembered again. Wired!

 

[dantem]

I was just reading about suicides on the local newspapers. The 'Regione' where I live is the 3rd in Italy for suicide hits. One article writes that the ration is 2 suicides per week, out of a bit more than 2 millions folks living here. In any way, is skyrocketing for its previous standards, and it's not only for the economic crisis, but also for moral and everyday life issues.

 

[Gloria54]

I too, have been misreading many words in the last two weeks. It was strange, something new in my experience. Thought that it was just a new old age thing to deal with until I read this thread

 

[Phill4]

I would say stop listening to the radio music.
music has a powerful effect on people even if you are not paying attention to the song, It changes you unless you pick on it and make conscious sense of it and avoid it.


Music can be said to be like food, avoid "depressing music", pop, and overly happy music. music that you know have a negative effect on you can be useful when combined with work on the nature of the effect.
many songs remind me of bad things, for example, but it is through it that resolution is possible.

Another thing as it has worked is an exercise Gurdjieff taught and it's called STOP. Whenever you are having such thoughts immediately stop everything that you are doing for 10 seconds if you can't do it for longer and remember "this is just a thought". It worked for me in many instances.

I can't find where to quote this part of the book. :/

 

[Adobe]

I've been having word processing issue for a few months now, and yep, suicide has been one of the words apparently transposed over some other word that would never have been taken to be suicide. Thought it was just me.

 

[waverider 9]

I would say stop listening to the radio music.
music has a powerful effect on people even if you are not paying attention to the song, It changes you unless you pick on it and make conscious sense of it and avoid it.

I cannot tell you how many times I had a persistent pop tune or classical piece distinctly running through my head - then turned on the radio and BAM there it was in the same spot that my "head" hearing was!
I no longer watch television and rarely listen to the radio. It makes sense that some people are more "tuned-in" so-to-speak to the specific frequencies since we have an atmosphere that is filled to the brim with all sorts of broadcast frequencies.

I also think that my mouth full of mercury fillings has something to do with it. I cannot afford to replace the fillings. In fact when I was young - all I had to do is clamp my jaw down and voilé! - instant radio broadcast receival!

Jeffery

 

[Keit]

Has anybody else noticed this particular brain error (or something similar) lately?

Hmm...that's strange. If I saw this thread yesterday, there wouldn't be anything particular to share, but there were couple of slips today that retrospectively sound strange.

The first one was while standing for two hours in a line at the local clinic with other students from my group in order to get medical approval for the driver's license classes. There were a lot of people, the line moved super slow, and we were getting pretty close to the closing time. I looked at the watch and said to the others that by the looks of it I probably won't be approved today and will have to come back another time (was supposed to be the last one to enter). One of the girls said: "Oh oh, it seems like you are loosing patience", and to that I replied: "No, not patience, but hope." So strange really and pretty overboard with the hopelessness! It all ended up ok, btw.

Another one happened after coming back home and talking to my roommate. Our group was supposed to have a major test in pharmacology tomorrow, but the amount of the tested material is huge, and none of us were able to cover even half of it. But we were able to talk to the teacher and postpone it for another week. My roommate remarked about how lucky we are, and how stressful it could be if the test was really tomorrow. To which I replied: "Yeah, if it was, I would probably hang myself".

Well, maybe it's just a combination of several stress factors and a lot that is going on beside tests, but still, it isn't that all bad and is far from hopeless! Thank you, Mr. Scott, for bringing this up, and will watch out for other similar slips.

 

[Laura]

I would say stop listening to the radio music.
music has a powerful effect on people even if you are not paying attention to the song, It changes you unless you pick on it and make conscious sense of it and avoid it.


Music can be said to be like food, avoid "depressing music", pop, and overly happy music. music that you know have a negative effect on you can be useful when combined with work on the nature of the effect.
many songs remind me of bad things, for example, but it is through it that resolution is possible.

Another thing as it has worked is an exercise Gurdjieff taught and it's called STOP. Whenever you are having such thoughts immediately stop everything that you are doing for 10 seconds if you can't do it for longer and remember "this is just a thought". It worked for me in many instances.

I can't find where to quote this part of the book. :/

Good advice. And keep your cell phone off and away from you unless you absolutely need to use it. Also, try to eliminate WIFI from your house if you can.

 

[edgitarra]

Another way that can give protection from it("suicide" word synchronizations) is to take in consideration the Confirmation Bias. It might be possible to just filter the word "suicide" in order to give the appearance that something is happening and it's not just a coincidence(example the hour 11:11, which I see sometimes). Of course, I do not want to say that it is entirely a coincidence for some here.

 

[dant]

Not feeling suicidal at all, I sometimes hear thought-
messages that refers to suicide and I immediately
stopped the message saying No, in my mind. I am
often aware of 'certain voices in my head that are not
my own.' The most recent suicide-message was yesterday
evening, PST.

 

[edgitarra]

Actually there is a movie based on a suicidal trip - The Happening(2008). I think it was some sort of substance emanated by the trees, and when the wind was blowing people around nature, parks etc. would just have a mental block and kill themselves.