Are You Crazy


by Christina Chatzidimou - Date: 2007-03-26 - Word Count: 527 Share This!

Our first reaction to this question is to answer: "No, of course not!" But reality is completely different from what we imagine it to be. The human being is not as balanced as he'd like to think, and if we observe his behavior with a psychological eye, he is even absurd in many ways.

Craziness has many levels and assumes various shapes. It is often difficult for us to tell the difference between craziness and logic, mainly because the human being is crazy from birth. His conscience is fundamentally selfish and filled with absurd tendencies. His wild primeval conscience is still alive, waiting and scheming to destroy its human counterpart to take its place.

So, the truth about him is ignored until discovered and distorted once known. He cannot judge his behavior in an objective manner. What appears logical to him, because he has observed it throughout his environment, may in fact be totally absurd; regardless of the fact that it might be accepted and adopted by everyone.

Another intriguing point is that the human being can't control his own behaviour as easily as he'd like to. He only occasionally succeeds and when he does, it's often situational.

Though he may not really wish to behave irrationally, when confronted by an appropriate stimulation, he often responds in conflicting fashion. He adopts ancient behavioural patterns in a chain reaction, forged from predefined behavioural structures found within the mechanism through which he learns about his environment and replies to offending stimuli.

To control his behavior, he must go through an arduous and dangerous psychological process of self awareness; better known as a profound introspection.

When I first began studying crazy behaviour through dreams decoding, I realized, among other things, that vanity is, in fact, a disease that provokes considerable behavioural modification; capable of impeding the development of one's rationalism and ability to self criticise. Vanity can even blind one to one's own mistakes and defects. When submerged in the influence of vanity, one can become ridiculous and hyper sensitive to any perceptible judgment made about one's behaviour; placing too much importance on the image one projects on society, as if one's very life depended on social approval.

Another common disturbance observed in human behavior is the strange tendency to interrupt a serious and important conversation to make trivial observations about something totally insignificant. This interruption reveals a serious lack of concentration, common sense and worse still; a severe lack of sensitivity and sensibility.

Recurrent repetition in conversations is so common that we don't even pay attention to it. We repeat some sentences so frequently that we appear to be less focused than monkeys, with an IQ below that of the primate.

You must think that my statements are simple minded or stupid, don't you? Tell me then, how can you differentiate stupidity from craziness? Perhaps one is simply the logical consequence of the other…

Now, we enter into chaos, and this disorder is but one that concerns our psychical world… there are more!

So, I don't know how you'd answer if someone asked you if you were crazy. Perhaps you'd reply as before, to avoid being misunderstood; but deep down inside, you might fear the true answer to this question…


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During my studies, I came across Carl Jung's method of deciphering dreams, which helped me and urged me to continue his research into the unknown regions of our psychical sphere. I set my poetry aside and began to compile my findings. I sought to prove that Jung had discovered the proper method of interpretation of dreams. This exercise actually taught me many things, and I continued to pursue Jung's research into the analysis of dreams.

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