The Illusion of Self

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So I don't exist, therefore I don't have to pay taxes. Yay

This man raises his words, not his voice. It's the rain that grows flowers, not thunder. Love the voiceovers my friend! Edit: thanks for the love! As a small YouTuber it means the world to me! - Visual Venture

Have you ever suddenly have an experience where you suddenly realize that you exist? And completely overwhelmed with the absurdity of it all?

It is so calming to just sit or lay down in a sofa while listening to Aperture's videos

His voice is like a cup of tea with a dash of honey. Soothing, warm, and light.

"We were not and we won't be. We simply are." Very powerful quote. Thanks for the video!

“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.” -Alan Watts

I can’t be the only one who see’s these video and just thinks: “What existential crisis am i going to have today?”

Caterpillar: "You've changed." Butterfly: " We're suppose to."

Excellent, and creepily accurate. Many people have no interest in pursuing these avenues of thought, because they create fear. But once you let go of that fear, you realize it was only trying to hang on to what will eventually turn to dust. So embrace it while you are here

One doesn’t experience self-transcendence, the illusion of self only dissipates 🎈

when you brought up the segment about being kind, it really resonated with me because that’s exactly how i view my self, i suppose. i remember all the times i was nice and i can’t remember the last time i was genuinely mean to someone, not in a joking manner. love your videos, aperture.

I recently found a video from 13 years ago, when I was 9 or 10, in which I filmed my family and at the end of the video, I turn the camera around to my face, smiling and waving. It felt like that pure "I", unfazed by the darkness of depression, was waving at me now, and I was just so sad that that person, who was very real in the video, doesn't exist anymore, and they (me) had no idea that something like this awaited them in the future.

I was suffering from anxiety and overthinking for the past two days. I have a habit of catastrophizing everything that can go terribly wrong in the future whenever I'm emotionally triggered or upset. But watching your video calmed me a bit. Thanks for making this video.

Damn, I was expecting some Soviet Union propaganda but this video really made me question my existence

I believe that the best way to look at life is by having an optimistic sense of nihilism. Now - Nihilism is neutral, not evil, not good, morality is an illusion created by humans and we are we universe experiencing itself with no purpose. But because of this lack of purpose, we have the freedom to choose our own purposes in life, while we are in our conscious human forms and able to experience emotions, the best thing that we can do is to acknowledge the reality and then use that to live in a way that just makes us feel better. We have the freedom to create our own morality and meaning in life, and that's a beautiful thing, just enjoy the ride while it lasts.

"Our self illusion is so interwoven with personal memories that when we recall an event, we believe we are retrieving a reliable episode from our history like opening a photograph album and examining a snapshot in time. If we then discover the episode never really happened, then our whole self is called into question. But that's only because we are so committed to the illusion that our self is a reliable story in the first place." _Bruce Hood, The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity. Thanks for sharing the video!

When I got scared, I remembered that there is nobody to be scared to begin with.

This channel is so… soothing. Makes me feel like it’s all gonna be okay somehow.