Thinking about the universe is melting my brain - Send help!

Thank you for letting me know I will never touch this stuff. I have debilitating anxiety and this would really really screw me up.
100% don't do it if you have the slightest doubt, it's not some party drug, it should be treated with respect because it will humble you beyond comprehension. Though, mushrooms can be really therapeutic at micro-doses for people with mental health problems, meaning you won't hallucinate or "freak-out", what it will do is fix your mind with the help of a professional. Look into MAPS
 
Thank you for letting me know I will never touch this stuff. I have debilitating anxiety and this would really really screw me up.
What if you took DMT in the past and it shifted you to this dimension and you have debilitating anxiety because you forgot about it but subconsciously know something is wrong?
 
The "real world" is fake, I don't mean you shouldn't take it seriously, because I believe it's a great privilege to exist in it, but it is an illusion. As for the mushrooms, you didn't eat enough.

If the real world is fake, then what is reality?

I took enough. I had half a box (not sure on how many grams). Boiled them up, ate them and than drank the warm mushroom water. I saw lots of crazy shit, but I knew it wasn't real.
 
What if you took DMT in the past and it shifted you to this dimension and you have debilitating anxiety because you forgot about it but subconsciously know something is wrong?
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Finding it hard to believe some people believe we will never know and our brains are too small to comprehend all of this. Its not.

We just need time. As long as we have time and we don't blow ourselves to kingdom come we will find out what makes the universe tick, what was before and what will come after. The key to understanding the fundamentals of the universe IMO are black holes which will only be solved through math. Crack that mystery and I'm sure we'll have new eyes on how the fundamental laws of nature work which will give us a significant insight into the cosmos.

Be patient. We will get there. It might not be in your life time but it will happen.
 
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My brain has melted with relativity... The concept of anything traveling in space is in it's own time bubble makes me crazy.
That is the thing that makes
Me absolutely saddened… how if you were to travel to a place where we could live, like a copy of earth or something, returning would have an uncertain outcome, with millions or billions of years passing by the time you return, even if you could do it within. Week in your own time… it's funny how all of this works.
 
What fascinates me constantly is not just how insignificant a single humans life but our entire species is. Like when you put the entire universe's lifespan on a year timetable we came up like a few minutes before new years midnight. Blows my mind.
 
I dont follow space or NASA or anything like that, but for me when it comes to the universe there's always been a handful of things I wondered:

- Big Bang or not how it all started. Even if Big Bang is true, where or how did this bang even start and why?

- You hear about black holes or whatever pulling in shit. So giant masses of rock get sucked in and compressed into small sizes. I'd like to see what happens before and after something gets sucked in

- I never understood the concept of spacetime this or that where lets say 1 year on Earth is different if somewhere else. To me, it sounds like 1 year of time sitting on my ass typing is still 1 year anywhere else in the galaxy. But googling it, it says 1 min standing by Saggitarius whatever is actually 700 years of time
 
Apparently there has been recent discoveries that the oldest galaxies they found are all mostly spinning the same direction (or preferred direction) and it may imply we could be living in a black hole

The black hole universe makes sense to me. I never understood why space is expanding (dark energy?), but if we're inside of a black hole, then it's the event horizon that is our universe is expanding. Maybe the cosmic microwave background radiation is light from outside our event horizon universe that fell in?

At an atomic level, matter is mostly empty space. It makes me wonder how many levels deep we are. Perhaps there's different properties every time you have a black hole universe within a black hole universe (different speed of light, etc.) perhaps we're in the Goldilock zone of universes to allow for life?

If we're in a black hole universe, then that means there's something absolutely fucking massive at the center. Just utterly massive.
 
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Apparently there has been recent discoveries that the oldest galaxies they found are all mostly spinning the same direction (or preferred direction) and it may imply we could be living in a black hole

The black hole universe makes sense to me. I never understood why space is expanding (dark energy?), but if we're inside of a black hole, then it's the event horizon that is our universe is expanding. Maybe the cosmic microwave background radiation is light from outside our event horizon universe that fell in?

At an atomic level, matter is mostly empty space. It makes me wonder how many levels deep we are. Perhaps there's different properties every time you have a black hole universe within a black hole universe (different speed of light, etc.) perhaps we're in the Goldilock zone of universes to allow for life?

If we're in a black hole universe, then that means there's something absolutely fucking massive at the center. Just utterly massive.
Yeah I was reading about that a couple of weeks or so ago. It's what reminded me about the theory that our universe is inside a black hole.
 
For more people who want to read about what the other person mentioned here above.


This means that our universe could be in a black hole in which that black hole exists in another universe.

Plus the black holes in our universe could contain other universes.

Wrap your head around that.
 
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Finding it hard to believe some people believe we will never know and our brains are too small to comprehend all of this. Its not.

We just need time. As long as we have time and we don't blow ourselves to kingdom come we will find out what makes the universe tick, what was before and what will come after. The key to understanding the fundamentals of the universe IMO are black holes which will only be solved through math. Crack that mystery and I'm sure we'll have new eyes on how the fundamental laws of nature work which will give us a significant insight into the cosmos.

Be patient. We will get there. It might not be in your life time but it will happen.

It's not that our brains are too small to understand, but they might not be equipped to understand.

Our brains evolved to understand time as a straight line: past ppresent and future. Everything we experience is embedded in that flow, so the idea of "no time" or time itself beginning is almost impossible to fully imagine.
 
I am not a believer ... but how I wish that at the end of our existence there was a great explanation of everything. and instead it will end in great ignorance.
 
Expansion and contraction cycles makes the most sense which means no beginning and end. I would think that after all the stars are gone only black holes will remain and space will start contracting and all the matter will end up inside a singular black hole and the gravity will compress it to such an extent that it creates the condition for another big bang.

Each cycle will last trillions and trillions (and more) of years. That multiplied by infinite cycles of expansion and contraction negates the question of the origin or beginning of the universe.
This is what i lean into, trying to wrap your head around everything started with the big bang just doesn't compute, but an endless cycle of expansion and contraction over billions of years is more plausible, as for why we cant detect any leftover remnants of this expansion/contraction is easy, everything simply gets sucked into a singularity only to explode back out again leaving no trace of what happened before
 
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.


And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.


And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.


And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.


And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
this is what we tell children ffs adults should know better
 
Existence in general doesn't make any sense if you think about it.

But it's there, nobody can deny it. So the only sensible take is that we, as a species, are not as intelligent as we need to be to make sense of it.

Also, here's another banger for your brain: Try to think about the nothingness after death or before birth. Like how existence is there but you don't get to experience it.

Or how about this: If intelligent life didn't exist, all that stuff, time, matter, space, the galaxies, the stars, planets, etc, would be there completely unnoticed.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
That doesn't make sense either. Because who created god? An intelligent entity with magical powers popping out of nothing or creating himself makes even less sense than the universe that we know and creates more questions than answers. So you are not solving anything, even if you were right.


Expansion and contraction cycles makes the most sense which means no beginning and end. I would think that after all the stars are gone only black holes will remain and space will start contracting and all the matter will end up inside a singular black hole and the gravity will compress it to such an extent that it creates the condition for another big bang.

Each cycle will last trillions and trillions (and more) of years. That multiplied by infinite cycles of expansion and contraction negates the question of the origin or beginning of the universe.
Timespace is one thing but this still doesn't explain how matter or energy exists. Where did it came from? When was it created? What was there before it?
 
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This is the definition of infinite, god theory is just as absurd, for lack of a better word, as simulation theory. Like, who created the simulation? Your head will just spin and spin and spin forever, paralysis by analysis. Sometimes I just think it's better to not think (about it). It's just unknowable in the end, and that's ok, just enjoy the ride and whatever comes next, if it comes, comes. I think the answer is just as simple as the universe is fractal and that's it, don't waste your time, again, just enjoy it while you're here, laugh, cry, love, hate, listen to music, do drugs, get drunk, get sober, play games, make art, jerk-off, have sex so the next generation can do the same, maybe it's meaningless, who cares, do it.

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It's not that our brains are too small to understand, but they might not be equipped to understand.

Our brains evolved to understand time as a straight line: past ppresent and future. Everything we experience is embedded in that flow, so the idea of "no time" or time itself beginning is almost impossible to fully imagine.

Everything takes time.

We need that to be able to figure things out and as I said before if we manage to survive long enough we'll figure out how everything is put together.

Time is our only enemy or limit to understanding the nature of the universe.
 
Everything takes time.

We need that to be able to figure things out and as I said before if we manage to survive long enough we'll figure out how everything is put together.

Time is our only enemy or limit to understanding the nature of the universe.
And then once (if) we figure it out, then what? What would be the point? Honest question, not shitting on your statement.
 
Timespace is one thing but this still doesn't explain how matter or energy exists. Where did it came from? When was it created? What was there before it?
As Evilore said, we have incomplete information. But what we know so far is quite astonishing considering a lot of it was discovered in the last 100 years. We are able to send stuff to Mars by accurately predicting the orbit of that planet. We have the ISS. We have been to the moon etc. However, the origin question is difficult to answer unless we can get the ability to travel to the edge of the universe or get the ability to visualize and map out the entire universe.

If you say god then who created god? Who created the god that created the god? This is an endless question. Logically something just cannot appear out of nowhere so we will continue to seek the answer to this question. Or maybe nothing really exists. It's all an illusion.

Remember humans are the eyes of the universe. The universe doesn't know what it is. Only humans have this ability and that's quite amazing. We still have a lot to learn.
 
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Yeah I don't get people who attempt to solve the infinite causality recursion problem with god. It's just special pleading and inventing something that is defined to be uncaused. How in the world is that even justified.
 
There will be a heat death to the universe, or the point in which the universe reaches maximum entropy.

At that point literally nothing anywhere will be changing. At some point in the extreme far future, all observable matter will have "evaporated." Even black holes, while resilient and the last things to exist in the universe, will cease to exist. At that point, time will have no way to be measured since we measure time by associating it with change.

With no entropy to increase, time literally becomes meaningless.

The entire universe will be absolutely dark, absolutely empty and absolutely cold.

It's a depressing outcome for the universe, but the universe doesn't have to operate in a way that satisfies our sensibilities.
 
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OP, there is no reason to know about what You ask because wont change anything. So why worry?

Also we are limited to our senses...and they dont help to understand all.
 
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