You are Being Set Up

In a study women were asked to rate photographs of men, but what they didn't know was that some of them were exposed to the scent of men - all rational responses such as how kind or how trustworthy this man on the photo appears to be were identical among the two groups, but the control group that was exposed to the scent had a much stronger positive reaction to questions such as how sexually attractive do you find this man on the photo. Consciously they weren't even aware of this scent; their subconscious instincts made this decision for them.

You are being set up. I remember a day when I went for a date with my wife. It was a beautiful June day in Providence, everything was just perfect on that day. It was as if the skies opened up. What if it had rained instead; what if I had been stung by a bee instead? I am allergic to bees; I don't think I would have had a fond memory of this day. The point is that our instincts coupled with the environment we operate in heavily influences our choices, probably even drives the outcome and our mind just rationalizes what happens afterwards. We are part of a movie and all we can do is to wake up and realize that is what is going on.

I hope you agree with me that you can gain consciousness at least on some level. Imagine the man who has married the same blond 25 year old character four consecutive times and only when his daughter mentions to him that his new fifth wife that he is just about to marry kind of looks like her mother on her wedding day does he realize the pattern himself. Yes we have the ability to wake up within a dream like a lucid dreamer but we still be asleep, we just operate on a new level of consciousness.That's ok too. Just accept that you are sitting on a couch somewhere participating in a virtual reality show that feels really real.