And Odd Experience At The Dentist

[Revoltingest]

I dread dentists.
(I would never survive a Bene Gesserit's gom jabbar.)
Yesterday I'd planned ahead for a tooth implant.
I had a playlist on my iphone, & wireless ear thingies.
Lo!
While the drill groaned, & the dentist worked, I actually
enjoyed the experience. My playlist distracted from the
thought of pain. Numbed up, there was no pain, but the
thought was the problem. Music replaced that thought.
I found myself smiling (only inwardly, since my jaw was
held open, & filled with tools of the trade).

Many good tunes, but this one was the most
calming & enjoyable.

 

[Vinayaka]

I dread dentists.
(I would never survive a Bene Gesserit's gom jabbar.)
Yesterday I'd planned ahead for a tooth implant.
I had a playlist on my iphone, & wireless ear thingies.
Lo!
While the drill groaned, & the dentist worked, I actually
enjoyed the experience. My playlist distracted from the
thought of pain. Numbed up, there was no pain, but the
thought was the problem. Music replaced that thought.
I found myself smiling (only inwardly, since my jaw was
held open, & filled with tools of the trade).

Many good tunes, but this one was the most
calming & enjoyable.

What a 'spiritual' experience!

 

[Daemon Sophic]

What a 'spiritual' experience!

I see what you're doing.

 

[ChristineM]

What a 'spiritual' experience!

I see what you did there ;-)

 

[SalixIncendium]

I'm not sure @Vinayaka "did" anything other than demonstrate that people tend to separate such experiences as shared in the OP from what they perceive to be 'spiritual.' What @Revoltingest did in the OP isn't all that dissimilar to meditation techniques that still the mind. I'm confident that if he had neuroimaging done while in the dentist's chair, the images wouldn't have been all that dissimilar to one who is meditating.

 

[Revoltingest]

What a 'spiritual' experience!

Hah!
I knew someone would take that road!

I must play tricks on me brain.
It does things I dislike, but I can make it behave
more as I wish with some thoughtful planning.

Tamar Beraia (in the video) is inspiring.
Francesco Piemontesi is another who
was in my playlist.
(I skipped the berceuse...too quiet for
noisy dental work.)

 

[Vinayaka]

I see what you're doing.

Hah!
I knew someone would take that road!

I must play tricks on me brain.
It does things I dislike, but I can make it behave
more as I wish with some thoughtful planning.

Tamar Beraia (in the video) is inspiring.
Francesco Piemontesi is another who
was in my playlist.

'take that road' has long been a metaphor for those who hold to the idea of spiritual experiences.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

'take that road' has long been a metaphor for those who hold to the idea of spiritual experiences.

Well, I take a third road. I know nothing of the natural or spitual. I just observe that different people live and cope differently.

 

[Wandering Monk]

I dread dentists.
(I would never survive a Bene Gesserit's gom jabbar.)
Yesterday I'd planned ahead for a tooth implant.
I had a playlist on my iphone, & wireless ear thingies.
Lo!
While the drill groaned, & the dentist worked, I actually
enjoyed the experience. My playlist distracted from the
thought of pain. Numbed up, there was no pain, but the
thought was the problem. Music replaced that thought.
I found myself smiling (only inwardly, since my jaw was
held open, & filled with tools of the trade).

Many good tunes, but this one was the most
calming & enjoyable.

Was it anything like this?

 

[Revoltingest]

'take that road' has long been a metaphor for those who hold to the idea of spiritual experiences.

And in politics, the low road is popular.

 

[Revoltingest]

Was it anything like this?

More like this.....

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

And in politics, the low road is popular.

Well, there are no high road as such. It is just different versions of right and wrong in the end.

 

[Revoltingest]

Well, there are no high road as such. It is just different versions of right and wrong in the end.

There is no right, nor wrong, nor differences, nor versions, nor end.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

There is no right, no wrong, no differences, no versions, & no end.

Yeah, it is all an illusion and even that is an illusion.

 

[Revoltingest]

Yeah, it is all an illusion and even that is an illusion.

There are no illusions.

 

[SalixIncendium]

There are no illusions.

That is also an illusion.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

There are no illusions.

Well, the problem is in the broad sense connected to false. In some cases something apparently can be false, yet people can act on it. So at least false is real in some sense.

 

[Revoltingest]

That is also an illusion.

Which doesn't exist.

 

[Revoltingest]

Well, the problem is in the broad sense connected to false. In some cases something apparently can be false, yet people can act on it. So at least false is real in some sense.

Problems are illusions.
False is an illusion.
Actions are illusions.
Illusions are illusions.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

Which doesn't exist.

Well, existence doesn't exist, since it is nothing but an idea in some people minds, but not true of reality.