what revelations and things learned have people had from their MXE experiences?
I usually feel very inspired and creative after an MXE experience. It seems to reset certain functions of my brain that would otherwise continue to operate in autopilot mode, allowing for a heightened awareness and interest in my surroundings and myself.
I don't really have "epiphanies" on mxe or dissociatives in general, like I have sometimes on psychedelics. It's more just stripping down all the survival-based autopilot programs. In our comfortable consumer-society, lots of brain functions have become more or less obselete really, you don't have to do fuck all to keep yourself alive. In fact, you don't have to do fuck all to be, not only alive, but also comfortable, warm, stuffed with far more food than is necessary (still eating snackfood of choice), sat in front of a tv for good measure so no further thoughts or other mental action could come up, as they are obviously completly unnecessary.
mxe reverses this autopilot mechanism, allowing for creative achievements/new angles of thought, perspective. In a way, it's like forced meditation (hence the confusion when trying to stay "on the surface").
It seems to me that ideas and conceptions or associations, "missing" (in concious thought) links between behavior, consequence, feelings, memories, between cause and effect to name the general concept, which have been dwelling inside already and therefore are not percieved as "epiphanies" or "revelations", form themselves into conciously percievable forms during and after the experience, allowing them to be "layed aside", with the concious knowlege they are existent, and full focus can be set to "solving" other aspects of existence.
I'd better stop rambling now...
