Tigrita
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Joined: 8/16/2007 From: California Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Tigrita I'm very excited by the concept of mindfucks, though I haven't had the opportunity to experience it much. For me, being in control of my faculties, being able to analyze and weigh the variables and know the direction things are going and reaching logical conclusions are all driving forces in my life and the way I approach the world (I'm a scientist). Taking away control and reason and predictability and reasonable conclusions, someone who can twist my mind into a pretzel until I don't know which end is up is something that I crave deeply. Someone with a strategic intellectual skill applied to physically intense situations, overpowering my own logical analytical mind, and getting me scared and confused... to feel someone have that power over me is totally exhilarating. I can't wait to delve into this more. You hit on something there for me tigrita, especially the bolded part, and it made me consider why i find mind fucks so distasteful and scary. i grew up in an environment you just described - very dysfunctional and the main emotion i recall from my childhood is fear and dread.... made me extremely anxious well into my late 20's, well i still am an anxious person but i don't feel that sense of dread anymore, i am in control of my environment. Mind fucks would bring me back to a place i have long put in my past - not able to rely on my surroundings or the people who were a part of them. I think this is why I like the concept. Similar to why I enjoy humiliation play. These are emotions I think everyone is faced with every day (at least I am) that we have to fight and rise above in order to function. I'm a very confident, secure person, it is pretty hard to actually humiliate me or rattle me in my day-to-day life, but that doesn't mean that those emotions and fears aren't there under that tough, functional exterior. That takes effort to maintain, and giving in to vulnerability and 'weakness' is cathartic and generates a primal, emotionally naked intimacy that I crave and fear at the same time. I'm not saying this is good for everyone, it sounds like it would in fact do bad things to you mentally and emotionally, but I hope that gives you some perspective into why others like myself could enjoy it. I know there were times in my life where it would have been very unhealthy for me too.
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~ Tigrita There is no right path, only the path you take. Success is making life happen, versus just letting life happen to you. "Many of the things I enjoy, I enjoy because I don't enjoy them." - Charlotte
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