[curiosity] self-knowledge, self-awareness

[wispfox]

Random bits of questions, more or less related to other conversations I'm having elsewhere. I'll reply to the things I ask in a comment.


-Do things in your head sometimes surprise you?

-If things in your head ever surprise you, how do you handle it?


-Do you feel like you know yourself very well?

-If you don't feel like you know yourself very well, do you want to? Do you feel like it affects your life in any way (positive or negative)?


-Do you feel like it's important to check in with the stuff in your head regularly, or are you confident that you will know about changes in your head when they happen?

-Do you feel the need to share changes in your head with other people? If so, who (names not needed; their relationships to you would probably be useful), and why? If not, and if you can explain it, why not?

[edit: I'm asking this because I'm curious as to how other people's brains might work in this regard]

Comments

[corivax.livejournal.com]

-Do things in your head sometimes surprise you?

Yeah.
I hate feeling helpless more than anything else, so I generally like to take concrete action, even on insolvable problems. If someone I know is having a really hard life right now and it upsets me, I want to cook for them, or help them out with chores, or anything; it keeps me sane to be doing something. When I miss people I know who have died, I write about them, or recently built an altar to the dead with a Nicaraguan group.
Sometimes, for particularly thorny and abstract problems. ("I'm depressed all the time" or something similar), I'm driven to take really wierd symbolic actions.

-If things in your head ever surprise you, how do you handle it?
There's usually a few days or weeks of denial. "I SHOULD feel this other way! ACK!" Followed by eventually giving in to the inevitable. I wish I were more graceful about it.

-Do you feel like you know yourself very well?
For the most part, yeah. But I'm a pretty simple creature. Four or five basic principles that interact in odd ways.

-Do you feel like it's important to check in with the stuff in your head regularly, or are you confident that you will know about changes in your head when they happen?

I'm honestly not sure what's mean by "checking in" with one's head. I live here.

-Do you feel the need to share changes in your head with other people? If so, who (names not needed; their relationships to you would probably be useful), and why? If not, and if you can explain it, why not?

Need to? Not really. Information is not an obligation. I often do as a courtesy, or because I want someone to bounce ideas off of.