I've twice in my life experienced very high levels of pain. Both times were quite philosophically shattering at the time. I sort of thought, "Wow, I had no idea that the pain scale went nearly this high! The world is a much less friendly place than I thought. This changes everything!"
One of those times it went on for more than a day. This was *by far* the worst experience of my life, probably by a factor of 100. At the time, I sort of thought, "Will I remember this? Or will I go back to looking at the world the way I did before?" And then I did go back to seeing the world the old way. Somehow, it seems like we're programmed not to believe how bad pain can be.
I've twice in my life experienced very high levels of pain. Both times were quite philosophically shattering at the time. I sort of thought, "Wow, I had no idea that the pain scale went nearly this high! The world is a much less friendly place than I thought. This changes everything!"
One of those times it went on for more than a day. This was *by far* the worst experience of my life, probably by a factor of 100. At the time, I sort of thought, "Will I remember this? Or will I go back to looking at the world the way I did before?" And then I did go back to seeing the world the old way. Somehow, it seems like we're programmed not to believe how bad pain can be.