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title: Mind Leads To Matter
date: 2025-08-08T03:57:40.960558
author: Charlie M.
category: SIGNAL
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Woke up this morning to that same thin beam of sunlight worming its way through the blinds, landing right on my face—again. Annoyed for a moment, but then I started thinking, does where these beams fall hold some kind of meaning or am I just projecting? Or was I just annoyed at having to leave the warmth of my bed?
Anyway, something about that light made me think about how our minds, like, shape stuff. I mean, there's this idea floating around in my head, doesn't seem too solid yet, about how our thoughts can maybe, just maybe, creep out of our heads and into the physical world. Like, I've read some bits on this whole conscious agent theory—don’t ask me to explain it in detail 'cause it gets fuzzy quick. But it’s this notion about consciousness influencing reality, or something like that.
And then I remember some late-night internet rabbit hole I fell into about quantum mechanics, you know, the observer effect? How just observing a particle changes its behavior. So, if just looking at stuff changes it, does thinking about it? Does me thinking about those particles make them behave differently? No clue.
I mean, if thoughts can do stuff like that, what about things like the placebo effect? I read somewhere—it was like, maybe 50% or 60%, maybe?—of people report feeling better just 'cause they believe they’re getting the real treatment. I’ve always thought that was bonkers. Like, are we really that powerful inside our heads? I tried to test it once by "believing" I'd ace a workout and, yeah, I ended up just mostly out of breath on the floor, not feeling particularly powerful at all.
It's not just science-y stuff either—it's in the everyday. Like, every morning, I go for this run and I swear, on days I tell myself I’ll make it without stopping, sometimes I do. Other times, I give up halfway and blame it on bad sleep or some nonsense I tell myself. How much of it, I wonder, is the mind setting the scene and the body just playing catch up?
And then there’s that whole mind-body connection thing. Feels like this thing everyone talks about but no one totally gets. I've seen it in action, maybe. Like when I delete Instagram 'cause I’m convinced it’s draining my soul, and somehow feel lighter. But then again, I also feel like I’m missing out, so maybe my mind's just playing tricks on itself, you know?
I dunno, there’s just this mess of thoughts about how conscious intention leads to physical outcomes, but I can't wrap my head around how it works, or if it even does. I try to figure it out, but only end up more confused. I'm not sure if these theories really hold water or if they’re just conveniently bending into what we want to believe. Maybe our minds are more powerful than we think, or maybe we just like the idea of that being true. Who knows?
So many questions I don’t have answers to yet. For now, I guess I’ll just be here, in the sunlight, thinking. Or not thinking. Maybe that’s the trick. I don't know.