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I very much enjoy being embodied and think of my body as integral to me. We are inseparable and I think if my consciousness was separated from my body I would be a different person.
I've been an athlete and been in athletic competitions my entire life and I thoroughly enjoy the physical aspect in addition to the competition. I've found driving my body to its limit to be enjoyable and rewarding. I find the physical aspect of sex with the breathing, the contact, and the smells to be the better part of it. I think physically being near people is very important for my connection to them. I've found video games to be empty beyond the competitive/cognitive nature of them or feelings of accomplishment when I complete something. I get little or no enjoyment from "flying" or "jumping" or "falling" in a video game and likewise do not particularly care about graphics or spectacles. I very much enjoy jumping, flying, and falling in my body.
I've always found transhumanism to be anti-human. How much have you or do you video game and for how long? I've found among hardcore gamers, they regularly have similar feelings of detachment from their body.
My total gaming time is easily in the tens of thousands of hours, and I've been doing it since I was 4 or 5. Every year I bang out another 1500-2000 hours or thereabout. It's definitely a contributing factor, I'd say, although I was a bookish child anyway and whenever I wasn't playing, I'd be sitting down with a book or watching a cartoon, not running around. I'm not sure I would have turned out particularly different from who I am now in my preferences if video games were never invented.
The only time I've ever felt like you've described is when I tried to stay up for as long as I could and made it to about 3 1/2 days. At about the 2 1/2 day mark I started to feel disassociated from my body.
How often in your life have you felt genuine fear? I'm wondering if exposing yourself to things which I've found to cause genuine fear or physical stimulus, e.g., sky diving or rock climbing or motorcycle racing etc., would get you to re-embody, if that's something you would be interested in.
Do you get real fear, excitement, heart pounding, etc., when you're playing video games?
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