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What's the meaning of "Feeling"? A detailed answer — The following quote is from an old comment by u/ Olutrageous-Vast9607 which I think more people will find it helpful It is a mood, an emotional state in res.ponse to something you contemplate (such …
Built a fast multi-host terminal log viewer with timeline histogram – looking for feedback — Hey all – I’ve been working on Nerdlog: an open-source fast terminal-based log viewer loosely inspired by Graylog/Kibana, having a similar timeline histogram on top, but designed to be snappy, lightwe…
Looking for early adopters - Customer Review Reminder — I'm a solo builder and recently launched a simple tool called **ReviewReminder (https://www.reviewremind.com/)** to help small businesses automatically remind their happy customers to leave a review. …
Anyone Else Feel Relationships just Aren't for them? — Hello all, I'm basically pretty severely A.P. , & so far I've been unable to get close to anyone (romantically) in my life without just exploding with terror that I'll be abandoned (or feeling a stro…
Starting over — Heya, I don’t want this to be a negative thread— looking for some positivity and hope maybe? I (34F) am recently out of a one year relationship. It was my first secure relationship in my entire adult…
Help me understand-anxious now ex bf + part avoidant ex gf — My anxious ex and I met in ‘22. Online I was a full dismissive avoidant I began to work on myself in October’23. Since October ‘23,I have been a dismissive avoidant in recovery Recently,I have …
For avoidants (and those leaning/earned secure): is this avoidant behavior? Do you really move on—and why no closure? — For avoidants (and those leaning/earned secure): is this avoidant behavior? Do you really move on—and why no closure? I began therapy 4 months into our situationship because of how strong he came on,…
Reflection on over friendly therapist? — Hi readers. This is something that has been on my mind for months and I don't know how to wrap my head around it. Some professional insight might be helpful. I left therapy a few months ago. I had …
Heavy energy/projection in living space — I keep experiencing, on a daily basis, unbearable heavy energy (from the little I've learnt, and I have learnt a lot) it feels like a projection of some kind. I have learnt and grown about myself abo…
My dad (56M) cut me off (21) for sleeping over at my boyfriend’s house. Now he’s blowing up at me and ruining our relationship beyond repair. — \-Sorry had to repost due to not having line breaks. I’ve always had a complicated relationship with my dad. He’s very controlling and has always been a “helicopter” parent when I was growing up. I a…
I just need to rant, Y'all. I'm so angry!!!! — My 83YO Ndad is selling the farm/family business Emom left my brother (48) and me (52) in an irrevocable trust. Dad is tickled pink with himself for installing legal loopholes to fuck us over. His IQ …
Don’t you fear being too isolated? — I recently got rejected by a girl that I really liked. We started off as very good friends and unfortunately I caught feelings for her. So right now, I’m grieving the fact that I lost a really close f…
I (24F) am pregnant by my (27M) boyfriend after a toxic relationship full of love bombing, lies, and sexual assault. I feel like i have no way out. What should I do? — Hi Reddit, I don’t even know where to start, but I’m at my breaking point and I really hope you can help me. I’m 24, my boyfriend is 27. We’ve been together for two years and have been living togethe…
Istg I ALWAYS try to keep the dream from evaporating but to no avail EVERY.TIME. HELP? PLS READ ! — guys I genuinely dont get it , everytime I get lucid the dream immediately starts to evaporate and if im so lucky it'll last for 10 secs or smth. I tried touching stuff around me , laying on the grou…
Is this claim about psychedelics and psychosis accurate? (From How to Change Your Mind) — Hi all, I’m reading *How to Change Your Mind* by Michael Pollan and came across this line early in the book: “It is true that the terrifying experiences some people have on psychedelics can risk flip…
How to disconnect from sensory distractions, transforming external noise as preparation for AP — I want to share a perspective on sound and "noise" that might fundamentally shift how you approach the vibratory stage and the meditative stillness required for projection. Often, we view external sou…
APs and comfort — I noticed how most APs are on a mission to not comfort their children, whether it be because they have no clue how or just don't care to (from what I've gathered from my own experiences and that of ot…
My Parents Ruined My Life — My mom would call the police on me whenever she wanted to discipline me. She ruined two birthdays where I just cried in my room out of depression. She called the police (who comforted me) saying that …
Asian American Meetup in Portland, OR — If this is not the correct place for this question, please let me know. Does anyone here live in Portland, OR? I’ve been wanting to meet more Asian Americans, just to grab a drink and hangout. About…
Is this EIYPO? — I have a 2 year old niece who I absolutely adore. She is my absolute favourite person to exist and i think she deserves the absolute best. Maybe that’s me being biased. But every single person who has…
Am i (23 F) overthinking this woman's actions towards my boyfriend (25M) or she's acting too close for my liking? — Me (23f) and bf (25m) are in an LDR. Long story short, there's this woman (lets call her Abby (18F)) in their friend group and at first i was a little jealous because it is normal when your SO gets cl…
Divorce because of suspected or admitted infidelity after trying to work it out — When whomever found out they were being cheated on, was there a sense of relief (from either the cheater or the cheated on) that the relationship was coming to an end, guilt, or confusion? How did you…
My (22F) boyfriend (22M) left his moms house due to issues with his brother (and is living with an old co worker) but i think he should move back in until he gets a license and car. How or can I tell him this? — Like the title says my (22F) bf (22M) moved out of his mom’s house because he has a very fractionally abusive brother. It led to a pretty big fight where my bf moved out and into an old co workers apa…
Husband (38M) says I (35F) am a psycho. — For context, I’ve been with my husband for 3 years, and I’m 5 months pregnant. I mention pregnancy bc I know hormones and gaining 20lb has made me a little more emotional/sensitive to things, and also…
I (24F) found my FWB/BF's (26M) tinder account after we agreed to become exclusive. Help? — I want to ask about a situation I’m going through right now. I (24F) met a guy (26M) in my martial arts class. We met at the end of November 2025, we hadn’t been friends prior, we just acknowledged ea…
Am I a Bitch for not answering? — So I recently had an accident and I was not able to walk at all for like 2 weeks. I asked my mom if she could help me with some things in my flat. She said yes, came to my apartment and first thing sh…
Year of financial success — This is my solar return chart (from my birthday this year 05/05 to next birthday 2027) So the question is if I'll do well financially this year.
NSFW: Impact of long term CSA? — I was S/A’ed by my older cousin for about 6 years (from ages 4 - 12). I’m 25 now. My cousin was about 6 years older than me when it started. When I got into therapy, my therapist mentioned that we nee…
I (17M) fear I may be falling out of love with my girlfriend (19F). — First of all, I am sorry for any vocabulary-related mistakes, english is not my 1st language. So, we've been together for now a year and a half, we started dating when I was 16 and her 17, we met via…
NC since christmas. got ambushed at easter. abuser parent showed her colors infront of family(socially), first time ever. need emotional support. (struggling to come to terms with MBP,/captivity /starvation abuse and abusers complete refusal to acknowledge) — to preface , id like to say some of my story/past (although, for those of u who are regular here im sure u have seen some of my olde rposts from 2 years ago) the easter incident will be at the bottom…
A possible way to challenge negative beliefs about yourself (from your parents) — This came into my head for some reason, maybe I read it somewhere, but it goes like this: I‘m afraid I am (insert negative belief) In order to not be (negative belief) I have to (action) For me, t…
How do I (26M) tell my dad (51M) that I don’t want to spend time with him? — This will be long and rambling, so I apologize in advance. I will add a tldr at the bottom. My parents had me when they were both young (under 25) and only got married because of my mom getting preg…
Recently cut ties — Hi all, my first time posting something like this. I recently moved abroad with my partner and my mother decided to invite herself over for the Easter weekend with only 24 hours notice. She knew we …
I think I'm being led to the Gateway Tapes? — The past few years I've been slowly going down the rabbit hole of "something more." I've always been fascinated by UFOs but it was reignited when I heard an interview with Leslie Kean and was brought…
was it shifting, or something else? — **I want to write this down here to don’t forget it.** For the last two days, I’ve been having strange dreams. In the first one, I saw people from the universe I want to get for. in the second dream,…
Me [23M] and my GF [23F] are having a disagreement and we need your thoughts. — Me \[23M\] and my GF \[23F\] have been together for about 2 years now. Ever since we have been together, she has asked me on at least 50 occassions if I would be up to try having sex with a man, somet…
My bf [M21] won't take accountability for making me [F19] insecure about my body and ruining my self image. — Hi, i’m my boyfriend’s \[M21\] first girlfriend \[F19\], and ive been with him for 6 months. I’m 182cms tall & 55kgs. I’ve never felt this insecure about my body in a relationship. I constantly find m…
My girlfriend sent me pictures of her and her ex during a manic episode and now everything feels different. I don’t know what to do. — Last week my girlfriend and I had an argument. During it, she sent me pictures of her and her ex in bed from 2024. She later said she did it during a manic episode and that she wanted to hurt me becau…
Is my friend a fake? — I've been doing ecom for 6 months, learning the space and building a brand. After 6 months of no results or ROI, I've finally started to make money, and I'm potentially on the verge of making a lot mo…
Friend group (28-30F) is excluding my best friend — I (28f) am feeling in the middle here. My best friend (29f) has a tendency to say rude things and give her unasked for input on things that are not her business to discuss. She doesn't mean to be hurt…
Is it wrong that I want my girlfriend to be more ambitious / focused on self-improvement? M21 F22 — I need some honest advice because I don’t know if I’m overthinking this or if it’s actually something important long term. I’m in a long distance relationship right now. I live abroad, I’m studying a…
Feeling stressed after a dream sexual encounter with a reptilian being — ok, so i want to preface this story by saying this is all quite embarrassing to me, and i chose this subreddit to post in because people seem genuinely open minded and helpful. to begin, i have been …
My BF has been snapping my best friend & hiding it — So, here's some context: I've (F18) been best friends with this girl (F18) literally since birth and we are EXTREMELY close. I started dating my boyfriend (M19) a little over a year ago. at first, t…
I don’t want my husband to sell Pokemon cards anymore… — I (28F) have been struggling to keep my frustrations in any longer when it comes to my husband’s (28M) new full time gig being a Pokémon vendor. All of this started towards the beginning of our relati…
From my experience the way he described it was the confusing part, especially considering the dozen translations there are of this book. Personally I think that a few things he is not right about w…
You have to give more time to build a rapport with people from the apps. People in the wild, you instantly see them in person without any competing preconceived notions, then you gradually get to k…
No, I would not say that’s a proper definition of bare metal K8s deployment. If you say “bare metal deployment” to me I expect you to then take me to the rack(s) of multiple machines in whatever pass…
Do you really think telling her things will change anything? Are you expecting something out of that? She will learn from this (from you), and the next person (if she wants it) will enjoy her best ve…
I haven’t read everyone’s comments, so idk what they said, but I have had kidney stones more than once— I’ve even had full blown surgery under general anesthesia for one (usually they are able to just…
Lol! That's a great example, thanks for sharing. There are times where I wish he was around more for quality time, like when he's busy/traveling for work/helping fix his mom's house/playing golf and …
Triggered from not seeing my partner enough - advice please Hi folks. Please help me understand if this is my anxious attachment kicking in or something reasonable to be feeling a little hurt by. …
You don't need to be fully earned secure before you start though. Once I understood my behavior as a DA, the problems that it causes, and learned the behavior that a secure person would use (from Gott…
Don’t forget that people on the internet don’t know you or your life experiences! As someone who tends to think everyone else knows more than me (from my own trauma) I’m finding it really important to…
emotional neglect and abuse are enough to traumatize a child, insecure attachment is formed from trauma, deactivation is dissociation and dissociation is a trauma response under the category ”freeze” …
welp I lived with my best friend after uni and yep, ruined our relationship. on the flip side, I moved in with two strangers two years ago and one of them has become one of my closest friends now, so …
I think just being honest with yourself about how you feel with your partner is really important, at least speaking from my experience. We dated for 5 months and I just broke it off after a month of r…
Do not worry about the text you sent! I remember her reason for the break up (from your post yesterday) and I think it was petty. You need someone who you can trust and share your mistakes with. Do no…
I feel like you should probably figure things out with the guy you're currently with.... Before even beginning to think about dragging another guy into all this. And remember.. You haven't met the sec…
That seemed a bit much after a first date (from her part) if you didn't know her before, doesn't it? I feel the sting, I'd probably get excited too, and yeah, answering should be the minimum, but I g…
I'm still learning to be secure (from AP side) but from what I've gathered with everyone else secure individuals are not dishonest and only put forward honesty when they feel boundaries are threatened…
It's just being awareness, but it's an approach that is understood best and best practiced after awareness has been established enough that it's more conscious than is typical. Before open awareness …
Funny you should ask. I decided to seek therapy twice. First time was several dead ends and I gave up. Second time I was put on a waiting list and actually got in. I went to this therapist for about t…
DEFINITELY my Waiting Room, that's practically my home and main reality atp, I get to live like royalty in there and the best part is that it's literally a sandbox virtual reality kinda thing so I can…
Definitely not. I do not fully think we can be. I think different versions of ourselves exist with eachother. If you search, "Parallel Reality Stories TikTok" on YouTube, you will see Playlists of …
Pocket dimensions! I am my higher-self’s pocket universe. Here, I solve problems for it by emotionally processing the daily issues which must help my higher self. Similar to how dreams help up process…
There are several options, and both are out there, although possible. I'd think of two. First, he might have had an onset of a psychiatric or even neurological issue that makes him dissociative; t…
Worst is over. You had a Ketu period that’s sitting with natural benefic mars and aspected by your nemesis Saturn that rarely does well for most Leo Lagna natives. This Ketu period look back clearly f…
Active suppression is unlikely to be effective, as is strong desire for something not to arise; both are craving and aversion which are the underlying fuel of any sankharas. Long term abstention work…
It's definitely the 12th house, and Jupiter is also in its fall in Gemini, aka not working as beneficial as he normally do, plus the 12th house of Gemini is self undoing by "blabbermouth" /scatterbrai…
Thank you! Yes I did exactly this, I saw I acknowledged and just moved forward like nothing happened (from the inside i was burning of course) and actually it feels really good. There is a lot of stre…
Idk if this is the same people you’re taking about, but Colton (from The Bachelor and the recent season of Traitors) stalked his ex gf, sent her texts, and even sent himself and her family “stalker” t…
Well it is an ancient practice based on the movement of the stars and planetary bodies from a particular point on earth. Any point on earth will show the apparent retrograde motion of a particular pl…
Yes, my ex, and it's both fascinating (from a psychology point of view) and sad. My ex started dating a guy 2 months after she left. He love bombed her, and did the few things that made he feel v…
No, you are not crazy. Absolutely ones ow happiness ultimately comes down to themselves, but in a partnership (from my perspective) there is supposed to be mutual support. That is literally why I call…
Any outer planet aspects you have to your personals or to themselves, everyone else within a few years of your birth will have that aspect, which isn't to say it'll necessarily affect you with everyon…
I think you need humor? I mean I don’t know if this will work for you, but when I get this way, I need something that kind of short circuits the brain, like surprising someone with hiccups. Could you …
I've done decades of therapy. I did get some good advice I've time when I was a teenager. He told me to play a sport, which ended up satisfying many genetic level drives. Like how eating and drinking …
Well, that was another reason I ended things. I started to feel like something was up. He always has told me he is happily single, I’ve researched him so much. First red flag is that he could never ho…
This isn't exactly super relevant to your situation but going through these threads its nice to see people actively pursuing communication over repression and frustration, especially after a break-up …
There is a combination of really good advice, and horror stories about the lives with and the deaths of Nparents on here. My own Nmom was just that, and an enabler to my much more violent and derang…
Well I didn't mean to imply that, I just didn't know (from an online dating perspective specifically) if there were a significant percentage of men that would be put off by a woman that is bigger in h…
> For instance someone could have Pluto at the same degree as you but because you have the aspect already, it's 2nd nature to you and thus you don't notice it as aggravating the way someone who has no…
I went through a very similar situation. Without sugarcoating, it sounds like you’re sitting yourself up for a huge disappointment and an even worse heartbreak (yes, worse). During my attempt to win h…
WOW! I’m genuinely impressed by her (from my corner of the web). What a gal 😎
That's never been an issue either. I was with my ex-husband for 20 years (from the age of 18), and I've now been with my fiancé almost 3.
I wasn’t a believer in karma until my divorce. My daughter blew up her moms infidelity at age 13, the second DDay. First was 11 years before. When my kid smoked out her trash mom, I went all in on div…
I had to look up mollycoddled. And wow.. this is helping me understand a judgement I had against myself lately. “To mollycoddle is to treat someone with excessive indulgence, pampering, or overprote…
After a breakup last fall that really crushed me and then a really sudden break off (from the other person) early this year, I've been doing a ton of work on my anxious attachment and slowing things d…
That’s really fascinating. Thank you for sharing this. My experience involves telepathy as well. It was not constant in the beginning, but mostly everyday. It seemed to have breaks in it-periods of …
>Anyways, I deactivated my accounts today. An app isn't gonna make me feel bad about myself. I am content with my life and my hobbies so hoping I run into a cutie in the real world from now on! How m…
>stop comparing consent with metaphors of buying objects it doesn't work like that. Consent is agreement to engage in activity or permission of action. By buying something I'm agreeing to engage in a…
Revision is the strongest tool, I believe it is the same thing as SATS just explained in more detail. I simply insert a "memory" into my previous day and then it shows up. 0 resistance. I got great an…
Oh shit 5 months? Darling just drop it now! Especially considering he is bulldozing right over the top of your boundaries, you've told him clearly that you don't want to talk about said topics and h…
I was the one that broke up with my avoidant partner of 6 years. It was a heat of the moment thing after a serious issue occurred between his daughter and mine (from previously marriages). I dumped hi…