Translucent Reality

Manipulation (External and Internal)

What is talking? Its basically communication between people. Talking usually gives you a good idea of what a person is thinking as well. Usually... obviously not 100% of the time since it depends on how well you can analyze conversations or that specific person etc. Its basically a way of expression. Its a tool.

It may be used to transfer information, manipulate people, control their emotional state or even control your own emotions. As with every tool, it all depends on how you use it. Personally, I believe even an average person can achieve greatness even if he's not academically or physically gifted but only knows how to analyze and counter-manage different situations and people. A tool that makes other people your tools. Sounds manipulative but it is what it is. The more highly qualified people you can read and use, the more control you have. Anyways, either you dominate the game or the game dominates you. Think of it as if guessing what people are thinking is like gambling and trying to read/analyze them is like learning how to count cards.

Thinking, on the other hand is basically talking too. Just between your inner and outer consciousnesses so it doesn't involve other people but its communication between two consciousnesses. Its just they both belong to the same person. I'm just gonna use "voices" for consciousnesses....

So when these voices agree on something, a person is confident of what he will talk about. If they don't well, that's where the skill of talking comes into play. How well he can disguise the fact that he's not sure of something himself. Of course these voices aren't always in your control and may go rogue at times. So your control over them may come into play. You can try to do that for your outer voice. For the inner voice, I'm not sure if its even possible. Since its directly attached to your soul. So it could theoretically be warped as well if you lie to your soul. Although you'd know that wouldn't you? Unless there was some way to set it on auto-pilot or something. But if someone would actually manage to do that, would they even stay human.... since their base instincts would become automatic.

Manipulation doesn't always have to be done to other people. The ability to manipulate yourself is an amazing skill if you could actually learn to do it. Although there is a limit to how much you can manipulate yourself. That's simply because the inner voice is also.. well YOU. Unless you split into two different personalities but that's a whole different topic.

The most, I believe you can do is somehow use your outer voice to convince the inner to believe something that it knows isn't true to lessen the pain or guilt or whatever unwanted emotion that needs to be gotten rid of. Since it knows there's no point in hurting after something has already happened. They call it lying to yourself. I call it managing your internal environment. It doesn't matter if its a lie, if it lets you handle shit, who cares?

Although sometimes, its better to let the opposite happen. Let the inner voice take control and just stay and ponder over the truth for some time and accept it. That's healthy as well but only if you have time to process everything and more importantly, if you can handle the truth... The problem with letting your inner voice run free is that it doesn't have restrictions. Its cold, hard shit and you need to be sure you're ready to handle it before you release that monster. It may cause depression or even suicidal thoughts if the pain is too great. In that case just burying emotions and "lying to yourself" is a better option but this is a temporary measure most of the time. Just depends how long you can hold out.

What if? What if a person managed to get rid of the outer dialogue? Then he couldn't have an internal monologue and would just think aloud. Basically say what he felt. Sounds like hell. But it would be interesting to witness. Well there are only two ways to face everything: to process shit and accept is to go through pain until it passes away or refuse to face it by "lying to yourself" for however long you can.