The deepness of this subject of the words is far greater than we think... afghooey, i think you saw just the tip of the iceberg when you wrote this post.

In reality, all our view of world, all our notion of 'reality' is based upon words. All the time, we are percieving the world, and extracting from this perceptions complete units which can be described by words. Like, im seeing a lot of colorful dots, then my brain converts this colorful dots to the perception of a keyboard, a computer screen, and so... Then, what we call 'outside world' is only the part of the world that is perceived by us which can be understood in terms of words.

Thats why is hard to describe how feels to be high for a people never have been high. There is no words to explain exactly the feelings, so the people must be high to understand how it feels. And, note that for the people that never has been high, there is a lot of feelings that simply not exist. He/She never felt it before, so it would live an entire life without knowing this king of feeling actually exist, so, for it, that feelings simply does not exist. Only after it smokes, it learns how is to be stoned, and have a new set of feelings.

The same happens with the world in general... there is a lot of feelings and perceptions of the world we dont even know exists, because we never experienced it, and have no words to describe it. Or rather, maybe there is words, but they only make sense for those who experienced it.

We all keep talking with ourselves into our minds. All the time. So, our mind is, all the time, being feeded with thoughts which came from words. So, all the time, we only know/see/percieve things which are described by words. Everything else is filtered, and does not enter in our perception.

So, learning to shut up this internal dialogue is the key for a different peception of the world. If we can percieve the world and just percieve it, without categorizing our perceptions in things described by words, we can percieve the world of a very different way. I accomplished it a few times, after using weed+butane. My mind felt like an complete silence, i would just hear the outside noises, without recognizing them, just listening. I would see the things, and they were the same, but i would not recognize them as i do everyday. It was very very weird... i cant describe, only can say it was somewhat frightening, cause everything was unfamiliar (even if the things were the same). But the shock of knowing our normal way of percieving the world in not the only one, but just one in lots of anothers, was worth the fright.
Coelho Reviewed by Coelho on . How words constrict us... More and more I find that the English language, while allowing freedom of expression to some degree, also creates a mire of symbols that can often be confused with their meanings. It also tends to give a misconstrued sense of significance which can restrict our thought processes. The words we use and the definitions which we deem to be official for them take precedence over those things that we can not put into words, and so we regard them as more significant. But as we have evolved, Rating: 5