Part of the reason why awe becomes rarer as we age is also a function of our brain - as we age, our brain thinks it has already experienced something, thereby projecting concepts and ideas of that object/ experience without actually requiring us to experience it again. So even on the daily, we need to challenge ourselves to re-see familiar things in a new light, so awe can be accessible anytime and anywhere. Not just limited to "spectacular" experiences.
@bronto I'd say the same about psychedelics. Although I can experience awe from little things even without those things. The first experience with them showed me it's possible to look at the world like that, so now I can experience it if I pay attention. It's not constant or automatic, but it's easily doable. In that way psychedelic experience is a kind of trail-blazer showing you you can do it.
@bronto I’d agree. Sadly, I have the disease of addiction, so I can’t anymore. To me the 12 steps and challenging myself through philosophy do the trick. Drug-free.
This video connects a lot of things from the trips I've had as well as my friends. I find that observing synchronicities with gratitude will keep promoting the feeling of interconnected consciousness. The connections between all nodes of existence will quickly consume you with awe and change every perspective
Sisyphus 55's channel is lukewarm about psychedelics. I tend to think that it's a major key to philosophy of the mind, but it's a taboo topic. The taboo of the topic draws not only social stigma, but both pseudoscience and psuedointellectualism. It's unfortunate that humanity as a whole is too immature to handle a frank discussion on psychedelics, cognitive science, philosophy of the mind, and psychology. I enjoy neurotheology, but it's a such a hard field to grasp all of the nuance without all sorts of societal baggage which gets in the way.
I am from South/Latin America. I have lived in two countries in South/Latin America and visited a few. I thought that each country in South/Latin America were very different from each other, but actually we are way more similar than we think, which lead me to think the whole world was more similar than I expected. This year I travelled to Europe, and out of Latin America for the first time in my life. During the 2 weeks I was in europe there was not one day I didn't experience awe. I remember vividly that the architecture was the thing that always snapped me into being alive and realizing I was so far away from home and things were much more different than I expected. I don't know how to put it, but on the day to day life sometimes I get into "automatic mode" and just walk mindlessly to do the task I need to do, but in Paris, for example, it happened multiple times a day when I was mindlessly walking, but then I found streets with a very different architecture and felt the feeling of "wow, I am in Paris and everything is so different". I was awesome having that feeling of being snapped out and feeling very aware of where I was and how different stuff is. I am fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese, but it made me awe to see so many people speaking languages that I couldn't understand. The strange of the situations I lived, and the language barrier, made me feel so alive and so in the moment because I was not in control and I was lost in an awesome way.
Same! I am from Peru and I've travelled most of South America. This year I went to Europe, and that feeling of awe is something that I've never experienced before. I just knew every single day that what I was living was going to have a great impact for the rest of my life.
You perfectly explained what I've always had a difficult time explaining. Thank you these words. I love visiting Latin America and I travel there alone because I love the thrill (and I see now that it is indeed awe) I get from feeling happily lost in vast new spaces where I feel freer to be me and truly alive. Not knowing the language is part of it. I enjoy the language barrier because it truly allows me to actually have deeper connections, more meaningful conversations with incredible people that I just don't find here in Nashville. Even if we are communicating by google translate. Once I was on a bus thinking I was traveling a few hours from Mexico City to Oaxaca but instead it was a 35 hour drive all over the place.I didn't know where the hell I was. It was incredible.
There is a psychological condition called Stendhal syndrome for people who are overwhelmed by specific works of art or its abundance in places like Florence or Paris. There is also a syndrome of people who don't experience this and feel depressed or disappointed as a result.
The problem then becomes how to manufacture this awe. I’ve noticed this is the task that many people have taken here in the comments. I’ll say that something I’ve found enlightening is to really study how someone decided to live their lives. Go here on TH-cam, find a random person, a person completely different from you, and slip into their skin and see what life they live. Reading a biography is another way of doing this. It’s eye-opening-to escape your own sphere, with all your schemas, and to swim into the orbit of another individual, and to see what meaning they take in life.
I think this is exactly backwards. the question is not how to manufacture awe but how to ground yourself back to a normal reality - that is to remove the overstimulation, hyperstimulation, and physical, intellectual, and spiritual sugar high that modernity keeps forcing down your throat without real nutritional value. If you can do that, and regulate yourself mentally and biochemically, the amazement will take care of itself.
I don't think you should manufacture awe it is more like a one of thing, but i do get just reading or watching a video about a completely different person and experiencing awe that way, also good way of "getting" awe is to watch the night sky
To experience awe and to be grounded back to reality-aren’t those ideas very similar? I see “reality” like being in a dark room, and all you can see is what is in the sphere around you. The room, reality, is one thing, and we only understand one small sphere of it. To experience awe is to add light to another sphere of the room, to understand another part of it. Thus, to be grounded in reality is the effect of awe.
@@oakus8503 well yes they are similar things but they are not the same thing. It's like being healthy versus treating a disease you have. you do want to get the other. In short what I am saying is introducing more all into your life is not about manufacturing the awe but rather clearing everything out so that when it comes you can be ready to experience it. it's not something you can control, but it's something you can prepare for.
I really hate when the top comment is something that can be commented under every single video the channel puts out. It should be an insightful point about the specific video, but it rarely is. Nothing against you, @checkered5087.
negative awe is trauma. this means positive awe has the opposite effect. in realising this, i shivered and i felt my schemas change. a new law has been created in my brain. this is awe i think. thanks!
I’ve heard a song, seen a sunset, a picture of a mountain, heard a piece of advice from a friend, given a homeless man 20 dollars, placed a piece of paper in my mouth, played a tune on the piano, given a man a hug, listened to a representation of dementia, sat in my room with my eyes closed. Awestruck. My favorite feeling in the world
Psychedelics are great, one time I was trippin on too much LSD and I was staring at a fire pit and the fire pit turned into a mini world with little people and buildings, that was 2 years ago and it's such an experience to remember. would love to try out the psilocybin mushrooms next, just don't know where to get them, so hard to come by
Plant medicines like the Mushrooms have been proven to bring many positive effects on overall mood and serotonin production after just one use. Additionally, micro-dosing is very beneficial to productivity and overall feelings of happiness.
I get my weekly dose of awe from a combination of weed and, books, music, certain games, walking through the woods. Every day on the trail is different. I learn something new reading the same Tolkien books over and over, great music traps me in the moment, or brings me back.
my life is full of awe moments, i am glad to be alive and living to experience this world, existence is truly a miracle, every thing i can see and every creature i look at is filled with an unimaginable amount of background story and thus there is beauty in everything
What's interesting is I have never been drawn to comfort or normalcy. Idk what it is about me but I need chaos on a regular basis or I start spiraling. When im comfortable I feel bored, I start thinking about how life ends and we will be dead for eternity while only alive for maybe 100 years. Without awe, lifes suffering is for no reason, with awe atleast lifes suffering has a counterbalance
Yeah that's called depresion... looking for chaos means you are seeking distractions because by being comfortable/bored/ you are alone with your thoughts.
Hell ya this is totally me too! It's a personality trait called novelty seeking. Some of the greatest scientists and explorers in history were this way. So we're the first humans who left horn of Africa and colonized different parts of the world. Alot of times it's mistaken for ADHD and might mean you're more addiction prone. But it's a helluva gift
most humans die before they reach middle age. you probably will too unless capitalism decides that people are still human if they arent born with 10million dollars in their guts.
@@CMZneu if you believe being a rich eurocentric person is the basis of normalcy lmao. that whole part of "science" is a literal joke when broken down. because what it considers "normal" is actually psychopathic by its own standards. its a science created and maintained by psychopaths who cant acknowledge when they are harming another human being..
@@saturationstation1446 If capitalism is so bad just move to a non capitalist country, most are not hard to ge into, i hear russia is looking for young able-bodied men.
A couple weeks ago I went to see the sunset in my backyard and noticed the clouds were moving fast, in little chunks and in SEVERAL layers. I started cloud-gazing and seeing angels, demons, mythological creatures... At one point I was so awestruck that I convinced myself I was dead bc such wonderfulness ain't possible in the real world, I had my jaw on the floor the whole time and my eyes were shining with amusement. I also was high on a bit of weed and a microdose of Ayahuasca and a few hours without my bipolar medication. Anyway, it was the most beautiful sunset I've ever seen and I feel like the richest person ever for being blessed enough to see such beauty from my perspective, and I hope many others also saw slightly different sunsets and had slightly different experiences, just as beautiful and memorable. I'll forever remember that sunset, also bc after it I saw the last episode of DW with Jodie and saw david again, so quite an emotional day and emotions=memorability (which is why PTSD is a thing) through the cerebellum which makes the connection between the amygdala and the hypothalamus. The euphoria of contemplating the universe/nature and what it has to offer is nothing short of spiritual. In fact, the universe built itself in a way that makes it possible for it to contemplate itself through us and our minds, and that's the closest thing to real magic there'll ever be.
One thing I've noticed that with media being so abundant in content in this vast internet era, some or few people I've met rarely get awe struck by something when its obvious that it is something out of the world or extremely amazing , I wish I can have your answer on this question of why this happens other than the stuff mentioned above.
Narcissism, I believe he does touch on this a bit though. Awe involves being able to see something greater than oneself. If you are the greatest or only relevant person (or idea of a person) in your life, nothing is awesome or awe invoking to you
@@theflyingnegro5063 so people these days are narcissistic then? Checks out how crazy people with their standards with certain things nowdays, jesus chris man, I felt like I'm the normal one who get to feel awe most of the time whenever I discovered something, the world never cease to amaze me and I'm surrounded by bunch of deadpans
@@Kaz-td2yg I also think another facet is in the world of information, leads to ‘armchair tourists’ that have ‘seen’ everything (on their monitor. Instead of experiencing true awe, these things are ingested at face value
@@Kaz-td2yg I don’t think it has anything to do with narcissism tbh.. on the internet we can see animals standing on their 2 feet, people performing obscure talents, and people just doing stupid things on a hourly basis. That’s why when we see it irl it’s not that special because we’ve already either seen it before or have saw something cooler
I actually started writing a short story shortly after my brother died. It was therapy trying to work through all the emotions, but the most powerful one that came out the grief was... awe. I revisit the doc every year on his birthday, because I understand grief and awe a little more every year. I understand him a little more too, as he lives on in the life I still live. This video gave me a little early inspiration, though, and helped me understand the experience a little more.
I didn't know awe was so rare to come by, I've never done psychedelics, but I've always tried to find something beautiful in reality everyday, and living in a rural area where the skies aren't so obscured by city lights, where flora and fauna has been allowed to grow as it pleases certainly helped me appreciate the vastness and ephemeral beauty of reality.
I've been feeling so much awe in the past month. I've moved to a new country for university and was pretty depressed for the first few weeks but recently, I've been making myself go out more and it's crazy how just looking at a patch of grass in its vibrancy or the sky or the architecture and breathing in deeply has made me experience such awe. It's like wooow I'm alive wowww I'm in a different country. It's pretty cool, and those moments have helped me be more grateful to be alive.
hey sisyphus, thank you so much for this video. this perfectly sums up a nagging feeling I’ve had about, well, pretty much everything. I tried psychedelics for the first time a few months ago and I felt like I had lost my place in the world, like I was disconnected from experiencing the same reality as those around me. it makes sense to me now that I was in a state of terrific awe at all that was and all that would come to be. knowing this, I can be comfortable with the fact that our presence in this life might be meaningless, necessary, or both. on a more realistic level, I can be displeased with the current state of society without being crushed and frozen by its shortcomings; I can find my place within it without submitting to its monotonous will. for the first time in a little while I feel like I can have hope. thanks again
I love feeling awe, it hits me at the most random of moments and combinations. One time I was on my daily commute and offhandedly listening to ambient songs when suddenly I recognised a house at the end of an alley and saw its beauty and wonder of the kind of people that live there. I often listen to that song when I feel awe and appreciation of the world
I visited a cave for the first time in my almost 29 years of living today (small cave system in Kentucky while driving through the state) and while admiring it, realized that I couldn't remember the last time I felt so amazed and inspired. I would like to feel that more often. Great vid as always.
I've been loving being in awe of life lately. Spirituality was the one piece I've been missing due to being raised evangelical and deconverting to atheism. I've been exploring and allowing myself to feel. No shrooms but plenty of weed lol But I found the Law of One and it's been confirming and combining everything I've found this past year. I have something I can study and absorb and be in awe of regardless of what "truth" is. I've found my truth and my happiness and life is an amazing experience for me
I think my autism has enabled me to be in a sorta perpetual state of awe. Its what makes things so overwhelming but its also what makes things so *beautiful*. Most people don’t look at any random object and find themselves spiraling in the complexity of it, all the things that needed to happen to make it, all the other people who have interacted with it. Usually this is focussed on my special interests, art and bugs are by far the things I look at the most in this way, but I can apply it to everything. Ive genuinely teared up at the movement of a door handle cos it was just so so beautiful, simply in the fact that it was THERE and someone made it and I could feel it moving
That quote had me holding back tears during class. Few will feel that kind of freedom again. Thankfully, that is. Just imagining his awe, gave me my own.
physics, black holes and astronomy are genuinely awesome. think that there might microbes being ejected into outerspace by the moons of europa and enceladus.
Love this video, reminds me how grateful I am to live in a place surrounded by natural beauty. One of the purest moments of awe that I get at least once a week is watching the clouds above the mountains near where I live throughout the day. If I could, I would have a job where I could look at clouds all day, they’re always changing and growing. Just like all of us.
I had not associated my burgeoning interest in cosmology and physical sciences with the therapeutic value of awe but it seems to fit your thesis perfectly. I had given up on 40 years of interest in the environment and the future of democracy, like many of my contemporaries. I have found that the amazement I feel every morning watching content about astronomy, astro-physics, earth sciences and so on have enabled me to see past the chaos of contemporary humanity to many potential futures for our planet. None of these are going to include me, perhaps not include human beings at all but the sure knowledge of some kind of future has cured me of the anger, anxiety and despair to which I was subjecting myself. IMHO, what we don't know is far more important than what we know and perhaps awe reminds us of that fundamental truth.
Yes. I tried so hard to get my ex to see the things I was seeing and they just… didn’t appreciate them. Often I feel alone in the world because I feel like everyone is moving so fast while Im looking for vibrant patterns and tiny worlds on the backs of leaves, things of that nature.
Something that helps me experience awe is doing some short mindfulness activity (10-15 minutes of yoga or stretching). Afterwards I feel much more aware of my surroundings, and even small things like pleasant smells, vibrant colors, etc. can be awe-inspiring. Thanks for the cool video!
For me i experience a lot of awe in my daily life because 21st has a lot of content and history. I enjoy learning how evolution works and it gives me a sense of awe
Thanks, thanks for the video, thanks for the calm, thanks for the knowledge, thanks for your existence, the world is a bit more peaceful because of it, thanks
One of the perks of adhd. Not a super power since that same curiosity will get you into cults and such but given correct circumstances, gaining awareness feels like it comes naturally.
I feel this as someone with a tendency to forget experiences further than two years back. Even if I already experienced the awe of seeing something, I’m able to experience that awe again as if it were an entirely new experience because many of the details fade away. I feel like I’ll always have something that will fill me with awe
Experiencing novelty in the sense of occasionally being in left in awe is, as opposed to reinforcing repetition, a potent driver for change and growth. I'd argue it is also something to promote learning and a healthy mind, therefore, it is something to actively seek out in day to day life. In practice, this mindset might just manifest itself in actively choosing to consume the most novel and diverse form of entertainment, e.g., watching tv-shows unlike anything you ever watched or playing games like Cyberpunk, Read dead 2 and Sekiro over a Far Cry or League of Legends game
just i experience aw everyday thabks to music. the sheer beauty of some compositions just leave me speechless. or the synergy between a good jazz quintet(miles davis' first one) and the groove and the solos just feels out of this world. I also play guitar and challange myself so theere is always a chase for something greater. music literally improved my quakity of life like 10000 times.
I remember a while back i was going through this loop where i had gotten into such an intense routine that every week felt like it was repeating itself over and over again. It really effected me at the time causing me to enter a sort of depressed state of mind. Once I recognized this I decided that i wanted to try new things and experience more. I spontaneously skipped class the next day, and did whatever i could to experience new things. Much more recently, I went and saw a sprawling city with a big downtown, and the awe I experienced seeing all the skyscrapers and everything really just overcame me. I’ve been itching for more experiences like that since.
I'm literally just listening to the chapter about awe in the audiobook "Phosphorescence: On awe, wonder and things that sustain you when the world goes dark" by Julia Baird it covers the same studies about Over-sight effect, etc. Brilliant book
We see so much in life the more we see the less we are amazed by it. How many times can I see a car drive or a spider spin a web or a beautiful sunset before I’m like Yeah, I’ve seen that already. And sadly changing scenery costs money. Vacations, moving, and seeing things online just isn’t the same. My awe comes currently from seeing my baby girl grow and be amazed at the world. She is awesome in the literal sense ❤
"It is from the valley that things look large; it is from the level that things look high; I am a child of the level and have no need of that celebrated Alpine guide. I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence cometh my help; but I will not lift up my carcass to the hills, unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything is in an attitude of mind; and at this moment I am in a comfortable attitude. I will sit still and let the marvels and the adventures settle on me like flies. There are plenty of them, I assure you. The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder." G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles, 1
I haven't truly experienced any form of awe since.. well, as far back as I can remember. This sucks because I genuinely want to feel awe, but just.. haven't.
You might want to check out the 1981 film My Diner with Andre. It's just two guys talking but the entire thing is about awe, how to experience it, the dangers of it, and how it can be felt in the everyday on a small scale, as well as in grandiose experiences.
You really wrapped my head around why I enjoy being a geologist. I never was able to express why it is so enriching in this often tongue-twisting way. Of course the experience of getting to travel to distant places and live in remote nature provides weeks/months of extreme awe, but it's more than that. The day to day knowledge acquisition that forces me to think on time and spatial scales far greater than my own (or even human existence) is a conduit for daily microdoses of awe or something like that. This video was super inspiring for me. Definitely want to explore this feeling more and search it out instead of letting daily tasks swamp that experience.
I don’t know if this makes sense, but I find that I often experience this sense of awe when I create art of where I’ve been. I may not experience it in the moment, but capturing that moment with a picture and maybe later with a piece gives me that wonder I missed out on ten fold.
Sometimes ideology you didn't know anyone believed makes me feel amazed and awed. I learned yesterday that my brother endorses child labour and that "a lot of human rights violations are just not evil". When I drove my favorite coworker home because his vehicle broke down, he laid out his elaborate worldview that included east-asians being demons because they're "the only race that's different" most of my coworkers have expressed to me racism against a particular group, sometimes that I'm part of, and sometimes not. It's actually pretty freeing when you can understand their point of view, dissagree, and still be friends, even with things like these.
The solution is to look for new information usually hyper specific or want to feel yourself dragged across the ethereal plain of your mind like a leaf in the wind and it can be something. For instance, what is in front of you or something beyond your current reach that you want to understand more about and that is how you feel awe
im new to this channel, so im unsure if the use of Psychology theories and studies are frequently used in vids. (i came from his philosophy focused videos) but i truly adore the usage of psychology. it scratches that part of my brain to see all of what i’m learning in my General Psychology course being used in more defined concepts. overall, very intriguing and well-put. i also did not realize awe could be both positive and negative
I feel seen 🥺 as someone who regularly experiences such feeling I can't correctly form the words to describe it and people just think I'm overreacting... I look at a tree and the sunlight on its leaves and the blue sky behind it with the clouds and suddenly, for just one moment time seems to stop it is all just perfect and beautiful and breathtaking .. I feel so small in the grandscheme of the world and I'm just .... in awe This video described exactly that feeling I tell people look at how beautiful the sky is today and they're like yeah but I'm like but no you don't understand it's more than just that Edit: also I just relaised how come I experience this often? It literally feels to me like just a part of who I am
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Your videos give me the awe a lot !
Can you do a video on Mark Fischer
Part of the reason why awe becomes rarer as we age is also a function of our brain - as we age, our brain thinks it has already experienced something, thereby projecting concepts and ideas of that object/ experience without actually requiring us to experience it again. So even on the daily, we need to challenge ourselves to re-see familiar things in a new light, so awe can be accessible anytime and anywhere. Not just limited to "spectacular" experiences.
@bronto
I'd say the same about psychedelics. Although I can experience awe from little things even without those things. The first experience with them showed me it's possible to look at the world like that, so now I can experience it if I pay attention. It's not constant or automatic, but it's easily doable. In that way psychedelic experience is a kind of trail-blazer showing you you can do it.
@bronto yea and that’s why I microdose,everything feels new and fresh
Do shrooms brother
@bronto I’d agree. Sadly, I have the disease of addiction, so I can’t anymore. To me the 12 steps and challenging myself through philosophy do the trick. Drug-free.
speak for yourself.
My experiences on LSD are essentially 6-8 hours of awe. On my first trip I was brought to tears merely from seeing the stars.
Damn.
I know what you mean, the first time I broke through on dmt my jaw literally dropped in awe of the complexity of what I saw.
This video connects a lot of things from the trips I've had as well as my friends. I find that observing synchronicities with gratitude will keep promoting the feeling of interconnected consciousness. The connections between all nodes of existence will quickly consume you with awe and change every perspective
Sisyphus 55's channel is lukewarm about psychedelics. I tend to think that it's a major key to philosophy of the mind, but it's a taboo topic. The taboo of the topic draws not only social stigma, but both pseudoscience and psuedointellectualism. It's unfortunate that humanity as a whole is too immature to handle a frank discussion on psychedelics, cognitive science, philosophy of the mind, and psychology. I enjoy neurotheology, but it's a such a hard field to grasp all of the nuance without all sorts of societal baggage which gets in the way.
@@Paraselene_Tao It's just that psychedelics are fleeting and it takes a certain skill to be able to convey the individual meaning to the rest.
I am from South/Latin America. I have lived in two countries in South/Latin America and visited a few. I thought that each country in South/Latin America were very different from each other, but actually we are way more similar than we think, which lead me to think the whole world was more similar than I expected. This year I travelled to Europe, and out of Latin America for the first time in my life.
During the 2 weeks I was in europe there was not one day I didn't experience awe. I remember vividly that the architecture was the thing that always snapped me into being alive and realizing I was so far away from home and things were much more different than I expected. I don't know how to put it, but on the day to day life sometimes I get into "automatic mode" and just walk mindlessly to do the task I need to do, but in Paris, for example, it happened multiple times a day when I was mindlessly walking, but then I found streets with a very different architecture and felt the feeling of "wow, I am in Paris and everything is so different". I was awesome having that feeling of being snapped out and feeling very aware of where I was and how different stuff is. I am fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese, but it made me awe to see so many people speaking languages that I couldn't understand. The strange of the situations I lived, and the language barrier, made me feel so alive and so in the moment because I was not in control and I was lost in an awesome way.
Yes.
Same! I am from Peru and I've travelled most of South America. This year I went to Europe, and that feeling of awe is something that I've never experienced before. I just knew every single day that what I was living was going to have a great impact for the rest of my life.
You perfectly explained what I've always had a difficult time explaining. Thank you these words. I love visiting Latin America and I travel there alone because I love the thrill (and I see now that it is indeed awe) I get from feeling happily lost in vast new spaces where I feel freer to be me and truly alive. Not knowing the language is part of it. I enjoy the language barrier because it truly allows me to actually have deeper connections, more meaningful conversations with incredible people that I just don't find here in Nashville. Even if we are communicating by google translate. Once I was on a bus thinking I was traveling a few hours from Mexico City to Oaxaca but instead it was a 35 hour drive all over the place.I didn't know where the hell I was. It was incredible.
There is a psychological condition called Stendhal syndrome for people who are overwhelmed by specific works of art or its abundance in places like Florence or Paris. There is also a syndrome of people who don't experience this and feel depressed or disappointed as a result.
i love this i hope i experience this :)
The problem then becomes how to manufacture this awe. I’ve noticed this is the task that many people have taken here in the comments. I’ll say that something I’ve found enlightening is to really study how someone decided to live their lives. Go here on TH-cam, find a random person, a person completely different from you, and slip into their skin and see what life they live. Reading a biography is another way of doing this. It’s eye-opening-to escape your own sphere, with all your schemas, and to swim into the orbit of another individual, and to see what meaning they take in life.
I think this is exactly backwards. the question is not how to manufacture awe but how to ground yourself back to a normal reality - that is to remove the overstimulation, hyperstimulation, and physical, intellectual, and spiritual sugar high that modernity keeps forcing down your throat without real nutritional value. If you can do that, and regulate yourself mentally and biochemically, the amazement will take care of itself.
I don't think you should manufacture awe it is more like a one of thing, but i do get just reading or watching a video about a completely different person and experiencing awe that way, also good way of "getting" awe is to watch the night sky
To experience awe and to be grounded back to reality-aren’t those ideas very similar? I see “reality” like being in a dark room, and all you can see is what is in the sphere around you. The room, reality, is one thing, and we only understand one small sphere of it. To experience awe is to add light to another sphere of the room, to understand another part of it. Thus, to be grounded in reality is the effect of awe.
@@oakus8503 this topic got you typing, great toughts tho
@@oakus8503 well yes they are similar things but they are not the same thing. It's like being healthy versus treating a disease you have. you do want to get the other.
In short what I am saying is introducing more all into your life is not about manufacturing the awe but rather clearing everything out so that when it comes you can be ready to experience it. it's not something you can control, but it's something you can prepare for.
haters mad because i experience childlike wonder
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I really hate when the top comment is something that can be commented under every single video the channel puts out. It should be an insightful point about the specific video, but it rarely is.
Nothing against you, @checkered5087.
negative awe is trauma. this means positive awe has the opposite effect. in realising this, i shivered and i felt my schemas change. a new law has been created in my brain. this is awe i think. thanks!
Omg dude you're right, negative awe /is/ trauma! O.O
That is such a beautiful and powerful insight. Thank you!
I’ve heard a song, seen a sunset, a picture of a mountain, heard a piece of advice from a friend, given a homeless man 20 dollars, placed a piece of paper in my mouth, played a tune on the piano, given a man a hug, listened to a representation of dementia, sat in my room with my eyes closed. Awestruck. My favorite feeling in the world
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Psychedelics are great, one time I was trippin on too much LSD and I was staring at a fire pit and the fire pit turned into a mini world with little people and buildings, that was 2 years ago and it's such an experience to remember. would love to try out the psilocybin mushrooms next, just don't know where to get them, so hard to come by
Plant medicines like the Mushrooms have been proven to bring many positive effects on overall mood and serotonin production after just one use. Additionally, micro-dosing is very beneficial to productivity and overall feelings of happiness.
once I took shrooms on accident they were in a chocolate bar and my fat ass thought it was regular choclate 😂
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@@userconspiracynut where to search?? Is it IG?
@@albert.robles7 yeah, He has variety of stuffs like mushrooms, LSD, DMT even the chocolate bars
I get my weekly dose of awe from a combination of weed and, books, music, certain games, walking through the woods. Every day on the trail is different. I learn something new reading the same Tolkien books over and over, great music traps me in the moment, or brings me back.
Ngl, the animations is one of the two reasons why i love your channel.
I'm more here for the content but the animation helps hold my attention
my life is full of awe moments, i am glad to be alive and living to experience this world, existence is truly a miracle, every thing i can see and every creature i look at is filled with an unimaginable amount of background story and thus there is beauty in everything
What's interesting is I have never been drawn to comfort or normalcy. Idk what it is about me but I need chaos on a regular basis or I start spiraling. When im comfortable I feel bored, I start thinking about how life ends and we will be dead for eternity while only alive for maybe 100 years. Without awe, lifes suffering is for no reason, with awe atleast lifes suffering has a counterbalance
Yeah that's called depresion... looking for chaos means you are seeking distractions because by being comfortable/bored/ you are alone with your thoughts.
Hell ya this is totally me too! It's a personality trait called novelty seeking. Some of the greatest scientists and explorers in history were this way. So we're the first humans who left horn of Africa and colonized different parts of the world.
Alot of times it's mistaken for ADHD and might mean you're more addiction prone. But it's a helluva gift
most humans die before they reach middle age. you probably will too unless capitalism decides that people are still human if they arent born with 10million dollars in their guts.
@@CMZneu if you believe being a rich eurocentric person is the basis of normalcy lmao. that whole part of "science" is a literal joke when broken down. because what it considers "normal" is actually psychopathic by its own standards. its a science created and maintained by psychopaths who cant acknowledge when they are harming another human being..
@@saturationstation1446 If capitalism is so bad just move to a non capitalist country, most are not hard to ge into, i hear russia is looking for young able-bodied men.
Good morning world! Go get some sunlight in your eyes and live this day to its fullest! Thanks for the dose of wisdom.
A couple weeks ago I went to see the sunset in my backyard and noticed the clouds were moving fast, in little chunks and in SEVERAL layers.
I started cloud-gazing and seeing angels, demons, mythological creatures...
At one point I was so awestruck that I convinced myself I was dead bc such wonderfulness ain't possible in the real world, I had my jaw on the floor the whole time and my eyes were shining with amusement.
I also was high on a bit of weed and a microdose of Ayahuasca and a few hours without my bipolar medication. Anyway, it was the most beautiful sunset I've ever seen and I feel like the richest person ever for being blessed enough to see such beauty from my perspective, and I hope many others also saw slightly different sunsets and had slightly different experiences, just as beautiful and memorable.
I'll forever remember that sunset, also bc after it I saw the last episode of DW with Jodie and saw david again, so quite an emotional day and emotions=memorability (which is why PTSD is a thing) through the cerebellum which makes the connection between the amygdala and the hypothalamus.
The euphoria of contemplating the universe/nature and what it has to offer is nothing short of spiritual.
In fact, the universe built itself in a way that makes it possible for it to contemplate itself through us and our minds, and that's the closest thing to real magic there'll ever be.
You were high from weed and psechedelic so this is why you had that awe. Probably, normally you wouldn't give a fu*k lol.
One thing I've noticed that with media being so abundant in content in this vast internet era, some or few people I've met rarely get awe struck by something when its obvious that it is something out of the world or extremely amazing ,
I wish I can have your answer on this question of why this happens other than the stuff mentioned above.
Narcissism, I believe he does touch on this a bit though. Awe involves being able to see something greater than oneself. If you are the greatest or only relevant person (or idea of a person) in your life, nothing is awesome or awe invoking to you
@@theflyingnegro5063 so people these days are narcissistic then? Checks out how crazy people with their standards with certain things nowdays, jesus chris man,
I felt like I'm the normal one who get to feel awe most of the time whenever I discovered something, the world never cease to amaze me and I'm surrounded by bunch of deadpans
@@Kaz-td2yg I also think another facet is in the world of information, leads to ‘armchair tourists’ that have ‘seen’ everything (on their monitor. Instead of experiencing true awe, these things are ingested at face value
@@Kaz-td2yg I don’t think it has anything to do with narcissism tbh.. on the internet we can see animals standing on their 2 feet, people performing obscure talents, and people just doing stupid things on a hourly basis. That’s why when we see it irl it’s not that special because we’ve already either seen it before or have saw something cooler
I actually started writing a short story shortly after my brother died. It was therapy trying to work through all the emotions, but the most powerful one that came out the grief was... awe.
I revisit the doc every year on his birthday, because I understand grief and awe a little more every year. I understand him a little more too, as he lives on in the life I still live. This video gave me a little early inspiration, though, and helped me understand the experience a little more.
I didn't know awe was so rare to come by, I've never done psychedelics, but I've always tried to find something beautiful in reality everyday, and living in a rural area where the skies aren't so obscured by city lights, where flora and fauna has been allowed to grow as it pleases certainly helped me appreciate the vastness and ephemeral beauty of reality.
I've been feeling so much awe in the past month. I've moved to a new country for university and was pretty depressed for the first few weeks but recently, I've been making myself go out more and it's crazy how just looking at a patch of grass in its vibrancy or the sky or the architecture and breathing in deeply has made me experience such awe. It's like wooow I'm alive wowww I'm in a different country. It's pretty cool, and those moments have helped me be more grateful to be alive.
Every time I feel like I’m falling astray, my boy Sisyphus 55 always set me straight. Thank you dawg I love you and your art
hey sisyphus, thank you so much for this video. this perfectly sums up a nagging feeling I’ve had about, well, pretty much everything. I tried psychedelics for the first time a few months ago and I felt like I had lost my place in the world, like I was disconnected from experiencing the same reality as those around me. it makes sense to me now that I was in a state of terrific awe at all that was and all that would come to be. knowing this, I can be comfortable with the fact that our presence in this life might be meaningless, necessary, or both.
on a more realistic level, I can be displeased with the current state of society without being crushed and frozen by its shortcomings; I can find my place within it without submitting to its monotonous will. for the first time in a little while I feel like I can have hope.
thanks again
I love feeling awe, it hits me at the most random of moments and combinations. One time I was on my daily commute and offhandedly listening to ambient songs when suddenly I recognised a house at the end of an alley and saw its beauty and wonder of the kind of people that live there. I often listen to that song when I feel awe and appreciation of the world
I visited a cave for the first time in my almost 29 years of living today (small cave system in Kentucky while driving through the state) and while admiring it, realized that I couldn't remember the last time I felt so amazed and inspired. I would like to feel that more often. Great vid as always.
I've been loving being in awe of life lately. Spirituality was the one piece I've been missing due to being raised evangelical and deconverting to atheism. I've been exploring and allowing myself to feel. No shrooms but plenty of weed lol But I found the Law of One and it's been confirming and combining everything I've found this past year. I have something I can study and absorb and be in awe of regardless of what "truth" is. I've found my truth and my happiness and life is an amazing experience for me
Awe best occurs when unplanned
I think my autism has enabled me to be in a sorta perpetual state of awe. Its what makes things so overwhelming but its also what makes things so *beautiful*. Most people don’t look at any random object and find themselves spiraling in the complexity of it, all the things that needed to happen to make it, all the other people who have interacted with it. Usually this is focussed on my special interests, art and bugs are by far the things I look at the most in this way, but I can apply it to everything. Ive genuinely teared up at the movement of a door handle cos it was just so so beautiful, simply in the fact that it was THERE and someone made it and I could feel it moving
i often think about the connection between humility and learning new things and im glad im not the only one
Imagining how the universe is awe inspiring, imagine what there is and what there could be in the future
That quote had me holding back tears during class. Few will feel that kind of freedom again. Thankfully, that is. Just imagining his awe, gave me my own.
physics, black holes and astronomy are genuinely awesome. think that there might microbes being ejected into outerspace by the moons of europa and enceladus.
Love this video, reminds me how grateful I am to live in a place surrounded by natural beauty.
One of the purest moments of awe that I get at least once a week is watching the clouds above the mountains near where I live throughout the day. If I could, I would have a job where I could look at clouds all day, they’re always changing and growing. Just like all of us.
This is the exact reason I want to travel more to the point of when I get comfortable with a place I travel and live somewhere else
Perhaps I’m not growing up, I’m leaving the things that have made me happy
I experience awe quite frequently. From the littlest of things I'm brought to tears of rapture and joy
You've been blessed with a gift. Congratulations!
@@teehee4096 thx
I had not associated my burgeoning interest in cosmology and physical sciences with the therapeutic value of awe but it seems to fit your thesis perfectly.
I had given up on 40 years of interest in the environment and the future of democracy, like many of my contemporaries.
I have found that the amazement I feel every morning watching content about astronomy, astro-physics, earth sciences and so on have enabled me to see past the chaos of contemporary humanity to many potential futures for our planet. None of these are going to include me, perhaps not include human beings at all but the sure knowledge of some kind of future has cured me of the anger, anxiety and despair to which I was subjecting myself.
IMHO, what we don't know is far more important than what we know and perhaps awe reminds us of that fundamental truth.
So much good thought in such a short video. Well put, all of it. Thank you!
The way you narrate the ideas man thank you I appreciate this channel so much you help alot
Yes. I tried so hard to get my ex to see the things I was seeing and they just… didn’t appreciate them. Often I feel alone in the world because I feel like everyone is moving so fast while
Im looking for vibrant patterns and tiny worlds on the backs of leaves, things of that nature.
Something that helps me experience awe is doing some short mindfulness activity (10-15 minutes of yoga or stretching). Afterwards I feel much more aware of my surroundings, and even small things like pleasant smells, vibrant colors, etc. can be awe-inspiring. Thanks for the cool video!
For me i experience a lot of awe in my daily life because 21st has a lot of content and history.
I enjoy learning how evolution works and it gives me a sense of awe
Love seeing a new Sisyphus vid pop up on a weekend morning
Thanks, thanks for the video, thanks for the calm, thanks for the knowledge, thanks for your existence, the world is a bit more peaceful because of it, thanks
That mountain range at 10:24 would make for some sick merch ngl
Your video made me cry. I guess i got the awe needed today by watching it.
A blooming flower is a work of awe
watching your content makes me feel so human.
One of the perks of adhd. Not a super power since that same curiosity will get you into cults and such but given correct circumstances, gaining awareness feels like it comes naturally.
I feel this as someone with a tendency to forget experiences further than two years back. Even if I already experienced the awe of seeing something, I’m able to experience that awe again as if it were an entirely new experience because many of the details fade away. I feel like I’ll always have something that will fill me with awe
Philosophy, love of life. It's reality! ♡
Your content really DO be leaving a smile on my face and a better understanding in my head.
Experiencing novelty in the sense of occasionally being in left in awe is, as opposed to reinforcing repetition, a potent driver for change and growth. I'd argue it is also something to promote learning and a healthy mind, therefore, it is something to actively seek out in day to day life.
In practice, this mindset might just manifest itself in actively choosing to consume the most novel and diverse form of entertainment, e.g., watching tv-shows unlike anything you ever watched or playing games like Cyberpunk, Read dead 2 and Sekiro over a Far Cry or League of Legends game
just i experience aw everyday thabks to music. the sheer beauty of some compositions just leave me speechless. or the synergy between a good jazz quintet(miles davis' first one) and the groove and the solos just feels out of this world. I also play guitar and challange myself so theere is always a chase for something greater. music literally improved my quakity of life like 10000 times.
another sisyphus vid to fall asleep to. and i mean this in the best way
"The world will never fall for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder"
Thank you
Very informative. Thank you!
My favorite video you have done. I had a moment of awe watching it!
Your videos while causing many existential frights…makes me hopeful for my future, keep it up love your stuff!
Always happy to hear a new rendition of fly me to the moon
I found it distracting, prefer the music to be subtle.
wishing to experience childlike joy and wonder
Watching you channel gives me the exact sensation you are talking about
Thank you for the good content
I remember a while back i was going through this loop where i had gotten into such an intense routine that every week felt like it was repeating itself over and over again. It really effected me at the time causing me to enter a sort of depressed state of mind. Once I recognized this I decided that i wanted to try new things and experience more. I spontaneously skipped class the next day, and did whatever i could to experience new things. Much more recently, I went and saw a sprawling city with a big downtown, and the awe I experienced seeing all the skyscrapers and everything really just overcame me. I’ve been itching for more experiences like that since.
Sisyphus drops a masterpiece again,this is going to be good😁
I don’t know how I navigated existence before this channel
I'm literally just listening to the chapter about awe in the audiobook "Phosphorescence: On awe, wonder and things that sustain you when the world goes dark" by Julia Baird it covers the same studies about Over-sight effect, etc. Brilliant book
Would you be so kind as to attach the link please?
damn bruh this might be the best TH-cam video I've ever scene
Another banger! Thank you good sir 😊
Thanks man
I felt awe last night watching a PBS DVD documentary.
We see so much in life the more we see the less we are amazed by it. How many times can I see a car drive or a spider spin a web or a beautiful sunset before I’m like Yeah, I’ve seen that already. And sadly changing scenery costs money. Vacations, moving, and seeing things online just isn’t the same. My awe comes currently from seeing my baby girl grow and be amazed at the world. She is awesome in the literal sense ❤
what an amazing youtube channel. i truly look forward to watching every video.
all video of your videos are AWE
"It is from the valley that things look large; it is from the level that things look high; I am a child of the level and have no need of that celebrated Alpine guide.
I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence cometh my help; but I will not lift up my carcass to the hills, unless it is absolutely necessary.
Everything is in an attitude of mind; and at this moment I am in a comfortable attitude.
I will sit still and let the marvels and the adventures settle on me like flies. There are plenty of them, I assure you.
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder."
G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles, 1
I haven't truly experienced any form of awe since.. well, as far back as I can remember. This sucks because I genuinely want to feel awe, but just.. haven't.
You might want to check out the 1981 film My Diner with Andre. It's just two guys talking but the entire thing is about awe, how to experience it, the dangers of it, and how it can be felt in the everyday on a small scale, as well as in grandiose experiences.
Was literally contemplating about this very topic these past few days
I feel fortunate, I feel awe all the time
This is awesome, I'm very happy that I found your channel
You really wrapped my head around why I enjoy being a geologist. I never was able to express why it is so enriching in this often tongue-twisting way. Of course the experience of getting to travel to distant places and live in remote nature provides weeks/months of extreme awe, but it's more than that. The day to day knowledge acquisition that forces me to think on time and spatial scales far greater than my own (or even human existence) is a conduit for daily microdoses of awe or something like that. This video was super inspiring for me. Definitely want to explore this feeling more and search it out instead of letting daily tasks swamp that experience.
Awesome video!
I don’t know if this makes sense, but I find that I often experience this sense of awe when I create art of where I’ve been. I may not experience it in the moment, but capturing that moment with a picture and maybe later with a piece gives me that wonder I missed out on ten fold.
Sometimes ideology you didn't know anyone believed makes me feel amazed and awed. I learned yesterday that my brother endorses child labour and that "a lot of human rights violations are just not evil". When I drove my favorite coworker home because his vehicle broke down, he laid out his elaborate worldview that included east-asians being demons because they're "the only race that's different" most of my coworkers have expressed to me racism against a particular group, sometimes that I'm part of, and sometimes not. It's actually pretty freeing when you can understand their point of view, dissagree, and still be friends, even with things like these.
THE CHILDREN YEARN FOR THE MINES.
Nah, you should make it clear to them that those beliefs are horrible.
Awe man
you got me started going down the rabbit hole of philosophy. much love to you and your amazing content, have a blessed day. ❤❤
Idk if im just really fucking high or if i feel like I’ve cracked my whole life from this video
wow i really liked this video, makes me feel like i can make a positive change
1:07 dont make me say it
I love your videos!
Ennui: Well now im not doing it!
I don’t know how I’m only now finding this channel. But I’m addicted. Maybe I need another philosophical video about TH-cam channel addiction…
I really like how you ended it with a positive message that inspires growth, it did so to me
I love Sisyphus55 ❤
The solution is to look for new information usually hyper specific or want to feel yourself dragged across the ethereal plain of your mind like a leaf in the wind and it can be something. For instance, what is in front of you or something beyond your current reach that you want to understand more about and that is how you feel awe
The Frankl quote really drove it home. I wept.
im new to this channel, so im unsure if the use of Psychology theories and studies are frequently used in vids. (i came from his philosophy focused videos)
but i truly adore the usage of psychology. it scratches that part of my brain to see all of what i’m learning in my General Psychology course being used in more defined concepts. overall, very intriguing and well-put. i also did not realize awe could be both positive and negative
“Astronomers find beauty in the vastness of the universe”
Don’t be scared of your finiteness but learn to live within the vastness
Don't settle for awesome as thats just some awe, make sure your life is awe-full
I feel seen 🥺 as someone who regularly experiences such feeling I can't correctly form the words to describe it and people just think I'm overreacting...
I look at a tree and the sunlight on its leaves and the blue sky behind it with the clouds and suddenly, for just one moment time seems to stop it is all just perfect and beautiful and breathtaking .. I feel so small in the grandscheme of the world and I'm just .... in awe
This video described exactly that feeling
I tell people look at how beautiful the sky is today and they're like yeah but I'm like but no you don't understand it's more than just that
Edit: also I just relaised how come I experience this often? It literally feels to me like just a part of who I am
Mr Jacobi, changing. Do you see?
Jumping to conclusions prevents it because of our energy conserving tendency
One time I binged this channel off half a tab