#psychologic

[chrnosblackwings]

[armatures]

I read Alchemy by Rory Sutherland. It led to some surprising places.

[billandashley]

I am happy to show you the posters we made for our graduation movie “HERO”! Made with our super team @zhepingxu, @mathieu-corbin, @antoine-vinceneux, @tomaksl , at l’Ecole Georges Méliès ! Soon the trailer... Here is our facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/Herofilm2018

[myeyeismysanctuaryk]

gas.light

gas·lightˈɡaslīt/

noun

1.a type of lamp in which an incandescent mantle is heated by a jet of burning gas.

verb

1.manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity."in the first episode, Karen Valentine is being gaslighted by her husband"

[altelchagla]

New cover of AAO

[billandashley]

HERO - Trailer

Un jeune adolescent tente d’agir en super héros. En rendant la justice, il se retrouve face à ses réels désirs… A teenager…

                                                   HERE IT IS ! The trailer of our graduation movie HERO, done with @zhepingxu, @mathieu-corbin, @antoine-vinceneux and @tomaksl at l’Ecole Georges Méliès. The music was composed by the incredible Olivier Michelot. It was a looot of work, but we are proud of what we did, and of the story, characters, ambiance we worked on together. I had an incredible year with this team, full of great memories and learning. Our movie will be out in one year, after the festivals period.  In the meantime, I hope you will like the trailer of HERO !

[excellentorangejuice]

There is that great post about feeling empathy towards shitty people like Elon Musk or Trump, and reading the comments about feeling empathy, I realized that I relearned feeling empathy.

I was empathetic as a teenager before 2019. I felt sad often and when people told me their stories, I was able to imagine them (visually) in my head, recreate the feeling, and so being able to feel what they might've felt and somewhat understand them.

Unfortunately, when I opened up to the wrong people about personal problems I had, I felt like I was bothering them and that I was overreacting with my feelings. I internalized not to cry, not to make such a big deal out of my problems and feelings. I started to surpress my feelings (instead of solving my problems, which I thought were unsolvable at the time).

I didn't know what consequences this "training" would have had to my ability to feel empathetic and understanding towards other people

I wanted to minimize my feelings about my own problems, but this applied to any feeling. I had no compassion for myself, I told myself to just get over it (basically what some men generally speaking are taught), invalidating my feelings.

And this taught me to act like this to any feeling, from other people as well. I would only be able to listen "logically" to other people, and feeling like "Ok you tell me this, and now what?"

Long story short since I'm tired, while I wasn't able to feel empathy anymore, luckily I was aware of how unhealthy this was and I knew I wanted to get back to where I was before, where I would listen to someone and feel something in my gut (which I didn't).

What I definitely noticed or remembered that I wasn't able to unfocus my eyes anymore. Like you know how people stare into nothing? I used to do this often as a teen but the past years I couldn't even if I nactively tried to do so. I can do that again also. I want to get to the point again where I drift off and my mind is empty and I don't register ANYTHING from my surrounding. I want to have that peace again.

I wasn't aware of this but I also wasn't able to visualize lots of things during the time I couldn't feel empathy. Now, when someone tells me something, I am drifting off with my eyes and start to see a scene in my mind unfolding visually. I was able to do this as a teen too, but I didn't realize when I lost this ability.