Me versus LSD & Existential Dread™️ (ch 7)

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I've HAD ENOUGH, I TELL YOU! I can feel some massive shift and it’s time for a new world order. Are my 30s my spiritual guru era? Eckhart Tolle, WATCH YOUR SPOT!
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⏳ What is going on in this video? (let me know if you find out) ⏳
0:00 What is happening
1:20 That scary phone call
2:30 Amanda piecing it all together
5:15 LEAVE ME ALONE, PHILOSOPHY
7:50 The wonderful world of psychedelics (a detailed recount of my psychedelic trip)
9:50 This newfound appreciation for nature
13:08 Seeing every life I had ever lived
16:15 The kaleidoscope casino???
17:16 All the memories I had forgotten about
18:14 The time loops
20:20 Chihuahuas and weiner dogs
21:50 We hallucinate every night…
24:00 Literally who is in our brains? I’m onto y’all.
26:00 I’m officially in my dark night of the soul phase!
27:30 Squidward in the gated community 😂
29:50 No one place will satisfy you
33:20 Taking it there, philosophically
💭 Where I’ve been learning 💭
Michael Sugrue (easy to understand lectures...like he literally doesn’t look at his notes once): • Playlist
Philosophize this! (I started around number 80): open.spotify.com/show/2Shpxw7...
Quietest Revolution KZfaq (she has been spot on...I launched my french course around her dates, I had a tower moment, etc.): / thequietestrevolution
Terrence McKenna (for the late-night trippy stuff): • Terence McKenna Explains
Alan Watts lectures: • Video
Eckhart Tolle + Oprah series: • A New Earth Ch 1/10 - ...
Esther Perel (more about relationships, but this is good): • Rethinking infidelity ...
The Pursuit of Wonder KZfaq channel (one of my favorite youtube channels): / @pursuitofwonder
The Pursuit of Wonder book: amzn.to/3Bz78ef
🖱 Other relevant links 🖱
To feel a similar mindset, do a sound bath. Here's the one I did in London: www.bloklondon.com/
Playlist for Psychedelic Therapy: open.spotify.com/album/2zY5p1...
Tibetan Singing Bowls: open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...
My playlist (with empowering, and dope songs): open.spotify.com/playlist/2Fr...
Music for Plants: open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...
Get a Grip on Philosophy book: amzn.to/33z3swj
The Dark Night of the Soul: • The Mystical Stages of...
Reddit Psychonaut: / psychonaut
Why you see what you see when you trip (VICE) www.vice.com/en/article/jpp75...
#DamonDominique #Therapy #Psychedelics

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@carolinelove5567 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could ask my dog what insights she gained when she ate the psychedelic mushrooms growing in our backyard.

@seauwen6691 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry to like at 666 likes but I can't not

@foxydelice333 Жыл бұрын

thats really irresponsible to let your dog near those

@bkizzle290 2 жыл бұрын

One thing about Damon is that he will always serve CINEMATOGRAPHY!

@spencer3699 2 жыл бұрын

Adding to the list of necessary mentions: - His ex - His repair man And now.... - AMANDA! Congrats and welcome to the family! 💞

@besma2627 2 жыл бұрын

Damon, there’s actually no way for doctors or health professionals to know if a result is a false negative/positive. The only way of knowing is repeating it many times. It happens because the test isn’t «precise enough»

@Awesomegotham 2 жыл бұрын

Also, many tests are done by lab techs or companies like Lab Core (In the States) instead of the physicians/doctors themselves. These assays are unfortunately susceptible to contamination, human error/not following protocol, lack of temperature regulation, etc.

@crazy808ish 2 жыл бұрын

It's surprising to me that society is so familiar with lab testing now through covid, more people than ever know that false positives or negatives are a thing. Why would he not think it applies to all forms of tests too? This is why, for example with covid, if you have a positive rapid test, you go get it verified by a PCR test. Like, confirmation testing if something is suspected to be wrong has always been a thing and will continue to be. It's dumb to assign blame because you wrongly assumed the testing method was *perfection* with zero error rate.

@chrisandtimothy 2 жыл бұрын

I do think it's weird how we just KNOW we are forgetting something but have no idea what it is. It's amazing. I won't leave until the feeling goes away and it only does when I get the thing I'm forgetting.

@damondominique 2 жыл бұрын

this! or when you know EXACTLY what you want to say but can't find the words

@finderinskaie 2 жыл бұрын

I haven't finished the book yet, but The Memory Police (a fiction novel) relates this same feeling with its plot.

@lavidanadja 2 ай бұрын

@@damondominique this is actually a linguistic phenomenon called "mot bout de la langue" in French and it occurs when there's two words that you think of somewhat rarely but you first thought of the wrong one and then it *blocks* the actual word you're thinking of - it was quite fascinating when I learned that this is actually studies haha

@thatstrueblue 2 жыл бұрын

The fact half of us would probably sit with Damon to chat about everything and spend 3 days talking, realizing nothing and everything AGAIN and then like... Yeah, Thursday, what a concept

@itsmylife2205 2 жыл бұрын

yeaah... exactly that 🥲

@themeltedchocolate 2 жыл бұрын

'Make sure you take it with someone who knows you' Everyone: YOUR EX

@bellaloves2815 2 жыл бұрын

AS👏 SOON 👏 HE 👏 SAID👏 THAT👏 I just assume that anyone he spends time with especially in France is his ex

@themeltedchocolate 2 жыл бұрын

@@bellaloves2815 i don't usually remember his ex but he pops up in my head right away every time Damon mentions a nameless someone in any context

@CeCeTheAmputee 2 жыл бұрын

I hear you. When I was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer (in my toe of all places) that resulted in an amputation of my leg, I questioned EVERYTHING. Life, my purpose, questioning love, having a different view on material things, etc. Its like, once I realized that I could lose my life so easily… I began my awakening journey. This was 11 years ago, and I’m still learning. Great video!

@maikekersten4434 2 жыл бұрын

When you said: "where do I need to go back to", I thought you traveling around the world is probably motivated by your search for that place. I think it is an inner place. Not something we will ever be able to find in this material world but something we can find in ourselves for we are this place/thing/experience

@maikekersten4434 2 жыл бұрын

Also I love how you are so loving to you not knowing the answeres and asking for them. let us know when you have found them

@damondominique 2 жыл бұрын

I actually had a clip where I mentioned that perhaps my passion for travel was just me trying to get back somewhere. Anyway, I cut it. 😂

@VaneezyTV 2 жыл бұрын

Damn, now this is deep lol

@joseaod15 2 жыл бұрын

We don’t go to school for 8 years to study medicine; more like 12 years 😂 and false results can still happen. That’s why we confirm with further testing. I’m glad everything’s well, though ☺️

@juanvillegas7378 2 жыл бұрын

2021 completely broke me open and I’ve been questioning my existence and everything around me as you have. Ultimately, I ended up with more questions than answers and that is okay. I recently read a quote by Rilke that came to mind when I was watching this video: “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Much love, Damon!

@alexs.3383 2 жыл бұрын

"feeling alive when you're alive -- what an idea" your videos are so expressive & true to you -- which I think is so powerful & unifying among all who watch. thank you for sharing!

@1rockqua 2 жыл бұрын

This feeling of “there’s just too much happening” is a concept I consider allll the time. I love being smart and inquisitive about these huge life concepts but it can be SO overwhelming!

@RaheemD 2 жыл бұрын

I can see it in a lot of KZfaq Creators since the pandemic, in fact anyone that's creative has lost their spark since the panda express. And now everyone has nothing to do besides sit and be with their mind and figure out what tf they actually want to do and if they're happy with their current situation. When you can't leave the house to actually find stimulation, that is literally kryptonite for creativity. And even though we're seemingly out of the woods, I'm unsure if this languishing will ever end, I sure hope it does.

@hisforhappiness222 2 жыл бұрын

Well said. consciousness has shifted as well - I hope we find a new state of creativity, passion & stimulation

@kls0110 2 жыл бұрын

“So dinosaurs were here before humans. So what were the dinosaurs doing? What’re you guys doing???” Lmaoooooo 💀 love your mind, Damon

@wa77iok20 2 жыл бұрын

Damon the way you think and talk about it makes me feel less weird and alone in my own head. Like I love you. When I meet you one day I'll be exhibiting fan behaviour and owning it be prepared

@arreza253 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a medical laboratory student, False positives are common occurrence in the clinical setting. Could be from technical errors in the specimen handling/collection, interferences with vitamins, etc. Doctors who studied for years are not really at fault here since they only interpret the results. I dont know if this is any comfort to you, but false positives are always better than false negatives . Glad that test came out negative, you even went thru 4x times to make sure. Thanks for the amazing videos Damon, because of you i picked up books from School of Life and from Eckhart Tolle!

@kajone6398 2 жыл бұрын

Im a laboratory biomedicine student (on my fourth year) and I was just about to comment the same thing. Well said!

@arreza253 2 жыл бұрын

@@kajone6398 Ya i couldnt bear to not give my two cents on this topic, its a little sad to have healthcare workers face these things. More power to you!

@MrGunfunfun 2 жыл бұрын

Crazy to see you feeling like that "okay, now what?" feeling cause I can totally relate. I got my dream of living a year ago and now am working while traveling, learning languages, etc. Now that I've "made it" I'm not exactly sure where to go, just keep enjoying it? Is there more out there to get? What do I really want to be doing with my time? Feel like I'm having a mid life crisis at 25 haha. Thanks for sharing, benefited from your experience and thoughts

@damondominique 2 жыл бұрын

YOU GET IT!

@bigbowl5044 2 жыл бұрын

@@damondominique Damon, are you circumcised?

@anjaudovicic 2 жыл бұрын

@@bigbowl5044 bahahahhahaha

@PM-re3ix 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve felt like that a couple times too. It reminds me of a game I used to play when I was little called animal crossing wild world: anyone who played that game knows how hard you had to work to pay the house, but once you had fulfilled the final payment, the game made no sense. What we did then was delete the game and start from scratch. Funny thing, what helped me in real life has always been, the moment I get what I worked for and feel like “now what”, break everything, every sense of identity (money, social circle, the place you live, etc.), decide a new game (goals) and start again, even if you need to start from scratch. The point is not settling into an identity because once you have it, once the painting is finished, the act of painting is over, and contemplating alone can be boring. I see life as little games (goals) that I play (pursue) and when it’s over I find a new one. I don’t really care if nothing’s real or nothing matters, my time here is actually not that long so I’ll make the best while I’m still here. Btw I'm also 25 but you never know

@caciliawhy5195 2 жыл бұрын

@@bigbowl5044 does that change things?

@nikkis4827 2 жыл бұрын

The comments are comforting - knowing that as 20 somethings we feel this almost unbearable but also most gratifying period in our lives. Thank you, Damon for articulating and sharing with us! :)

@thegabbcorner 2 жыл бұрын

Stopping EVERYTHING I'm doing just to watch Damon Dominique 👏

@damondominique 2 жыл бұрын

YALL ARE SO SWEET

@saraaabusalih8119 2 жыл бұрын

the only youtuber who speaks fast enough so I don't need to play with the playback speed😂

@keke7945 2 жыл бұрын

Haha yes!!!

@megancita75 2 жыл бұрын

The editing on this was so fun and creative! IDK, I'm one of those people who generally has decided that there is no point and and it's all random and the only task is to make our time here livable for ourselves and others -- our task is to live. Maybe growing up going to church and with a father who was a minister has worn out my interest in those questions or just made me more accepting of not having answers. I really like hearing you wrestle with the questions, though; that sort of engagement is absolutely part of your aliveness.

@roshniasroseella855 2 жыл бұрын

Listening to Damon talk about his lsd experience is just taking me back to all the things I've read or known from the Hindu scriptures and our Vedas that were written like thousands of years ago and they talk about the same stuff Damon is saying I feel like he should give them a read he'll definitely like it

@andromedaespejo7986 2 жыл бұрын

Yesssss

@spookerydook 2 жыл бұрын

unbelievably relatable.. I'm scared of pursuing my future dreams and prefer to have them in my idealistic mind rather than make them into reality because I know its possible because 2021 my dreams started coming true and am scared of the question that's quietly sitting in my mind the " what now?", shallowing the dream and ew essentially I keep chasing places and dreams and ideas of the future to distract myself from the emptiness of that thought "what now? what's even the point?" but at the same time there's a part of me the human part of me, that seems to want to make my childhood self proud that childhood version of me watching me naively and quietly, and I want to love every part of this empty of meaning life because I suppose why not, there's so much detail in this universe and so much simplicity while we oblivious sometimes to the living art of life and nature around us, anyway I'm coming to accept the duality of the nihilism but also desire to feel and live as a human that is within me, there's really no point of anything but I'm too tired of Dragging the existentialism everywhere I go, it used to crush me so much, too tired to let it sit on my head, this is more for my own therapy lol 🍞

@aybukemetin5325 2 жыл бұрын

Wow i 100% relate to your comment. Are your parents religious or strict?

@spookerydook 2 жыл бұрын

@@aybukemetin5325 no actually, are yours? my dad was a little strict but I ignored that, and I think my freedom causes my existentialism?? not sure

@lawlalla 2 жыл бұрын

I always flip flop between that “what now?” feeling and the feeling that I wish I could just chill and be where I want to be. Like life is either boring and empty or overwhelming and stressful haha

@aybukemetin5325 2 жыл бұрын

@@spookerydook actually my mom is pretty religious and i grew up with all these religious traditions and concepts, i thought this causes my existentialism lol maybe this is only a part of being human und we shouldnt overthink it but cant help sometimes :)

@Irakli96 2 жыл бұрын

15:30 - I felt this. 💛 Thank you for sharing your experience!

@lmvdam 2 жыл бұрын

i appreciate you saying that your trip insights could probably have been gotten through other methods like yoga, meditations or music. psychedelics work for some, but there are other means too. loved the vid xx

@damondominique 2 жыл бұрын

id say if you want a similar experience, go try a sound bath! i felt like i was ✨ right back there ✨

@damondominique 2 жыл бұрын

Go listen to Come to Life by Kanye West in the shower and be alone with your thoughts...listen to that PIANO IN THE BACKGROUND at the end of the song and just TRY to not get goosebumps. That's POWERFUL I TELL! *beautiful beautiful beautiful*

@nd1371 2 жыл бұрын

All of this made me think of this harry potter quote: Harry: professor, is this real or is it just happening inside my head? Dumbledore: of course it is happening inside of your head. Why does that mean that its not real? (It goes something like that, dunno if the words are accurate)

@mymontessoripath 2 жыл бұрын

To answer one of your questions, all that I could think of going "where to go back to" was to back to your real self. It's also interesting to see how you think as an American. Eventhough you speak portuguese and French, you tend to think cognitively/existentialist. As a Brazilian Psychologist living in Paris, i realized that people here think more in a psychoanalitical/humanistic way If you were to follow Jung/Freud I believe you would go to LOTS of different places.... Actually, what a crazy talk this could become: different nationalities bring different generational memory transmission and ALL THAT needs to pass by the intervention of language so that we can symbolize. At the same type each language has it's symbol.

@mynamesvals4672 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, as a peruvian psychologist I 👏🏼 love 👏🏼 this 👏🏼 comment 👏🏼 so 👏🏼 much😍

@user-wn4zf1pg1d 2 жыл бұрын

you are such a vessel of positivity and it literally brings me such joy listening & seeing you speak. your wisdom and charisma is so inspiring! thank you !!

@SaturnReturns01 2 жыл бұрын

the unadulterated JOY I feel when I see a new Damon video in my subscriptions 💛 thank you for being you, Damon!!!!

@Tildamathi 2 жыл бұрын

This video is exactly what I needed / wanted to watch. Thank you Damon 💜 you’re always delivering the most personal and relevant content 🥲

@kaymaceachern 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so so so glad you decided to talk about psychedelics. They stigma needs to be flipped. Also, you're extremely entertaining I've been geeking and snapping my fingers and slapping my knee throughout the entire video!!

@mausi3000 2 жыл бұрын

taking a break from studying for my psychology exams with this psych-themed vid...i just know my brain hates me LMAO but a new damon video is always top priority

@lynahoppe 2 жыл бұрын

I told myself I’d go to bed on time… then i saw you had a new video. This was worth staying up 🥰

@Vezz14 2 жыл бұрын

I followed your content since the Damon and Jo era and I just love how your personal channel has grown. You have a totally unique style and you're one of the few youtubers i still get excited about seeing in my inbox. :)

@chabouelg-c885 2 жыл бұрын

The loop thing is exactly what I feel when I am doing a bad trip on weed, legit could'nt explain it, felt like nobody was feeling what I was feeling, but now you reasure me sooooo much.

@1stepatatime 2 жыл бұрын

YAAAAAAASSSS I love the "WE" we are not by ourselves, we are with ourselves. Our brain. Love this. We're in this together Damon!

@peepee34200 2 жыл бұрын

Ok ok. I am in love 🥰😍! Mainly with you… but also hearing about your trip. It aligns with so many spiritual traditions. I think the place that we are all trying to get back to is back to our center (nirvana, the universe, cosmic consciousness, the Tao, etc.). Getting back to living in full awareness of who we are (one with everything and everyone) and living life through that perfect awareness. You are right. YOU CAN DEFINITELY REACH THIS PLACE THROUGH MEDITATION. It takes more time, but you’ll have control and will be better led by your intuition vs. a psychedelic. Psychedelics are super useful, but not for long time use. 🙏🏽

@kassandracelaya8929 2 жыл бұрын

let me overshare here a lil bit: when I was like 12 to 13 years old, I read super basic books (but very important to me), like, Aleph by Paulo Cohelo, or Sophie's world; basically, books to get you into philosophy. But, because I was so young, I feel like they made me question my life a lot more than I do today. All the things that Damon said, I had those same thoughts back then, but I just forget about them a little more every day. And it comes back to what he was saying about all of us knowing EVERYTHING, but just forgetting it. I'm barely getting into my twenties, and I'm already very nostalgic about those years. Basically, what I'm saying is, as kids we were very curious about life, and it's very sad that with time all that excitement goes away. Maybe if we could just keep a little of that innocent curiosity, life would be so much more exciting, and we could be better people. Or perhaps I'm just still seeing everything through a rose colored lens. All of that being said, this video was very, very therapeutic.

@dinoalien6213 2 жыл бұрын

one of my fave recent vids of yours!! love this topic - keep the existential / spiritual / philosophical questioning & pondering coming !!!

@RingsAndCoffee 2 жыл бұрын

This is the most relatable video I’ve ever watched. ALL OF THE QUESTIONS. I have the same exact ones and this is the first time I see someone that has the same exact ones too

@jasminegheorghe 2 жыл бұрын

31:35 the "prediction" part really touched me, I kinda have been feeling the same lately but haven't been able to translate it into words, thank you for bringing that up!

@felipeguedesvieira207 2 жыл бұрын

Damon, your videos are so amaziing, I always get really deep reflexions when hearing you. Thanks for sharing all of that

@marilynrichards3551 2 жыл бұрын

Yessss Damon! Such an amazing, important video. You've shared extremely valid points, well done. Takes me back to the first time I experienced lsd... I felt like a newborn baby. Really enjoyed this

@KatAlSilva 2 жыл бұрын

So cool to see Damon questioning how weird we must be for animals, the other day I was just thinking how we're the only animals that at some point went like "you know what? Clothes, I need to walk around in them"

@KA-wp6zo Жыл бұрын

This was such a beautiful sentimental story and I loved every second of it. Thank you for sharing your experience with us. I related to many of what you spoke on

@mrantunes91 2 жыл бұрын

This is topppppppp quality content Damon. It’s so funny because I have wanted to try psychedelics for so long listening your experience has enlightened me. Thank you

@flpkrc 2 жыл бұрын

Damon, thank you so much for sharing your deep thoughts and all these words! Feel everything u said to 110%, hearing someone else having same percievings of life, makes the heart so warm

@FongioHELS 2 жыл бұрын

love this! thank you for sharing. i've done psychedelics over a dozen times, but the oddest thing was a couple months ago, a sober night, i had a dream that i took a tab of acid and started tripping. in my dream! it was beautiful but so very strange and i wonder what was going on in my brain, chemically. i remember it looked like that Van Gogh movie where the starry night was being like painted onto my vision in real time, if that makes sense. my waking experiences with psychedelics have all been illuminating, creative, and healing. psychedelic compounds have SO much potential as medicine. i hope soon they'll be decriminalized and more research can be done - there are already some institutions doing research (MAPS on MDMA-assisted therapy, Johns Hopkins on psilocybin) so we're headed in the right direction :)

@richardjasonminehart3198 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this. I appreciate how you really are trying to convey what happened!

@efyneftali1866 2 жыл бұрын

this video was perfectly timed. I was going throught the same spirals today and beggining to question whether this was normal or if i am actually going insane,,,, its comforting to know that others have similar thought patterns to the ones i was expericing. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and expirience with us.

@hmbee1110 2 жыл бұрын

Makes sense that at 29 you're going through the collapse of what you've known to be true up until this point. Astrologically that's the time in life you go through your Saturn return. It's all about this. If you don't know about it look into it. Also I'm loving that you're sharing your personal deep dive into philosophy and spirituality. I'd love to hear you talk to different spiritual teachers and philosophers, etc from different walks of life and have these deep conversations with them and share them with us here. You're such a good storyteller in this visual medium and I think it would give a platform for these things to be discussed in a casual way that feels relatable. Much love Damon, and may you find your way back to yourself always.

@joeldavid4014 2 жыл бұрын

I looove this content. so much of what you’ve been saying recently about psychedelics, philosophy, the meaning of life, etc lately has mirrored what’s been going on in my life quite closely and it’s super comforting to hear someone else talk through it. plus as a baby queer u are honestly one of my biggest role models :’) lots of love damon!!

@arteifey 2 жыл бұрын

Can’t wait to watch this, just going to wait till I’m in a better headspace💕

@minaglis 2 жыл бұрын

You are SUCH an artist Damon! Every video’s a masterpiece, that intro!! 😍

@lj4466 2 жыл бұрын

The fact that I understood every word 👏🏽 👏🏽 I’ve been there with just meditation alone but cannabis enhances that too. (ALWAYS write it down bc you’re at a different frequency so you will forget) I love you my dude

@livebydesign7783 2 жыл бұрын

So entertaining and insightful. You are a truly inspiring being. :)

@kenegrete 2 жыл бұрын

I completely agree that if you're always doing what you love it'll lose meaning. I have so many hobbies (like photography or crocheting) and everyone i know always tries to tell me how I can monetize those things so I can "work for myself" and "do what i love", but If i were to be doing those things all day everyday for OTHER people, then I know I wouldn't love those things anymore. And literally no one in my life seems to understand that.

@bleepbloop6011 2 жыл бұрын

i felt the remembering things that you haven't remember like inactive memories its amazing i find so much joy in them

@lorenzop5899 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Damon, your uncertainty and not knowing where to go with life and existential question was very... relatable. We're all humans going tru tough stuff in the end. merci.

@sarac9956 2 жыл бұрын

That’s so interesting that you had the “theme” I need to get back. Maybe everyone has their one trip theme. For me was fear and that I don’t need to have it. I feel that these themes are the things that we need to heal. Great to hear your experience

@vlaicualexia7868 2 жыл бұрын

Love the way you think and express you ideas! always so good

@zayabrinkopart3212 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video, Damon. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more insights that brain of yours has to offer!

@sanjanavidya530 2 жыл бұрын

One of the best experiences I've had so far. Haven't done lsd but the trippy-ness i can relate to. Books, movies, yoga, meditation, complete solitude, soany different things can trigger such experiences it's insane. Mid video when you came to the part with "are memories fake". I teared up because i realised others have experienced that too. But i know for sure that so many of the things I can completely remember happening have not happened and it's just so trippy and thinking that everything could be fake is scary. It's a lot to think about. Also about the part about matrix, like there could be another real world or dimension and this is not real at all makes me think in a way that I'm fine with that but do I have to be in so much pain if it's not even real. If it doesn't matter why am I not living life to it's fullest. But even after realising that I don't know where to start. When you said that you don't wanna be trapped in a way when the entire life becomes predictable, i felt that because to a certain extent i already do feel like that so whatever is left is the reason I can keep on wanting to live. The uncertainty. So I totally get you there. We'll got lots more to say but I'll definitely be reading the book you suggested while being completed shook to my core and being scared. This video was really good. Hope someday I get to meet you and different people who think like this or actually have deep thoughts and are willing to share and have different conversations.

@alis_n_lopez_ 2 жыл бұрын

Damon this video is truthhhhhh, I just got out of a serious dark period of my life that was tremendously difficult to overcome because I had to unlearn so many things, I came out of it a completely different person with new language and perspective and insight and am grateful for all the lessons I've learned but omg we are having a huge awakening, people are facing their shadows and I truly believe its like a global great awakening.I've been coming across so many people around the same age in life who have recently realized these things as well :) haha

@orangeblossom1712 2 жыл бұрын

This is the most accurate recalling of acid experience I’ve seen online. Now I want to do it again 🤣🤣I studied existential psychology in college and these questions are critical to ask yourself! Such a big fan Damon ♥️💘😍

@jamiefordx 2 жыл бұрын

I love these kinds of topics and I’m here for it

@damondominique 2 жыл бұрын

If someone knows where I gotta get back to, could you please let me know? 🧐

@sunlight3638 2 жыл бұрын

♥︎ sur toi !

@icedcashewmilklatte 2 жыл бұрын

where we came from before we were born

@diamondcentury21 2 жыл бұрын

Your ex 👀🥴

@evemhooper 2 жыл бұрын

Home!! (whatever that means for you)

@sillybean501 2 жыл бұрын

It's so interesting to hear how you've travelled through existentialism, to where you are now.... I'm acquainted with the dark night ... for me I have come to think that the 'point' may be in transformation. That we are meant to become the best that we can be and that in transforming - and really moving towards our true potential- we help to transform the outer world- and feel a deeper sense of fulfilment and connection to all things. (in a way existentialist philosophy might be read as symptomatic of the unease of civilisation increasingly fragmented by war, and 'progress'... the loss of faith less about what is actually evident in nature..but more a soul crisis...maybe we are meant to heal this...) Perhaps you know deep down that you are able to do much more. Your talents in art and philosophy, your wit and.....in search of meaning... maybe you need to push towards that which you know you have inside of you. Maybe making videos and travel isn't challenging you anymore ... I wonder if you'll go deeper with philosophy or your painting, writing, film.... You know your talents and depth! This is a message for you from above the universe ✨📩🔖🔱.

@laura8295 2 жыл бұрын

The chapter titles on this video are just wild!:D love listening to you and your experiences:)

@damondominique 2 жыл бұрын

😂🤣 if it’s TOUCHING this channel, there will be *thought* behind it

@kalinshic1 2 жыл бұрын

DEEP DEEPP DEEEEEEPPPP DAMON. You are coming back TO YOURSELF ! Amazing to watch. Thanks for sharing

@FM-qs3lo 2 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to say although you've been on KZfaq for years and I've watched you since your early damonandjo days, I still get the same excitement when you post a new video!

@pilarmaydana2393 2 жыл бұрын

You NEED to start a podcast🤍 I love your existential thoughts and even though they can be overwhelming it helps a lot of people going through hard times too, thank you Damon for the visuals and the knowledge🌙💫

@drawcircle6934 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing video! Was having an emotional and psychological breakdown because of existential crisis, after the video I has a reset and now I am able to go for another week ;D

@blinkur09mom 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for putting down all the links to the material you have been checking out. I had a health scare back in 2020, but unfortunately for me it turned out to be a new reality I would have to face. Now that I’m on the road to recovery, I’ve been pondering a lot on ego death. I feel like I have been mourning who I was before my diagnosis and what this new change will be for me

@AnmolKumar22 2 жыл бұрын

So happy to hear your experience so openly! My experience was so similar in the way I wanted to write everything, remember everything because everything feels so profound and like an epiphany. I think the constant theme of 'I need to go back' meant your brain telling you to go back to your roots maybe? There's a child like innocence in all of us and somewhere growing up we lose it. I think in the midst of this quarter life crisis you are being reminded to go back yourself. You will always have yourself and your perspective and your way of seeing things and no one can take that from you. Proud of you and always inspired 🥰 Lots of love all the way from India ❤❤❤

@nustiucenumesamipun 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for talking about this. Everything you said is spot-on.

@mgalv0309 2 жыл бұрын

I'm watching this video literally thinking two things. 1: How on earth are you so brilliant? 2: Please don't leave KZfaq! Also, you asked where do you have to come back. The answer is KZfaq 😅 Please don't leave!

@KRZYZANWSPANIALY 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Damon for always keeping it real and interesting, I value your content a lot

@amandadaydreamer8252 2 жыл бұрын

Keep it fresh, reinvention time baby! Change it up! Time to dream new dreams Damon. Still got a lot of this life here in the now left to live. Push yourself outside your comfort zone to find a new version of yourself and what excites you NOW. Love you D!

@johnmones1450 2 жыл бұрын

Like a good book is a good read that stimulates, your vlog is a great watch and listen that excites my imagination. Thank you 🙏

@a.lumpia 2 жыл бұрын

Wait, I wish you talked more about the health scare because I had gone through the same thing when they thought it was something, got my blood retested several times, only to find out it was nothing

@damondominique 2 жыл бұрын

I know for a nurse it's probably one call of many, but for the person receiving the call, it's honestly a traumatic experience...and the longest six weeks of my life to redo all the tests. All of that on my 30th birthday, when I was already feeling a change happening, and I was like yeah...it's time for a shift in priorities...but now what are those priorities....

@rubired123 2 жыл бұрын

Man, I’m here stressing about the smallest damn thing at work. This just raised me up a level and reminded me that the little shit doesn’t matter. I so enjoyed this ❤️❤️

@hisforhappiness222 2 жыл бұрын

Time loops ahhh. Interesting experience, Damon - thanks for sharing

@paulinelamadrid6104 2 жыл бұрын

Ahhhhh I get so excited whenever you upload!!! 😤😤😤

@hannahcomia 2 жыл бұрын

Needed this video. Why it was your video- unsure. But thankful you’ve made it 💫💫

@leminasyan 2 жыл бұрын

I love how my favorite ppl on the internet are getting more and more into this spiritual shit and how they are going the similar thing I go through in my life

@allyson-- 2 жыл бұрын

Your videos encompass the full spectrum of what it is to be human -- you hardly skip a beat, Damon!

@matrafest 2 жыл бұрын

love your content, it's so honest and raw keep going

@georgekendall2053 2 жыл бұрын

30:30 hittttt. Wow what a beautiful insight, been struggling like this too a bit with feelings of questioning reality and losing a little bit of the childish excitement i used to carry to everything i did since a rlly bad experience last year. Thats such a sick insight damon, not everything can e everything to you, just love it for what it is and isnt

@mementomori2683 2 жыл бұрын

Love hearing you talk about filosofy of life.There is one simple but beautiful quote that I love.I will try to translate it the best I can since it is originaly writen in Serbian lenguage. It gose something like this: -Do u think that living leads anywhere? -When I think about it,no! I don't bealieve so.But there is something wonderful in exsisting,and the beauty is in the fact that it leads nowhere." It is so scary to think like this but at same time it gives me peace.

@emilymackin7568 2 жыл бұрын

i love this video and types of videos you do with these deep, but should be normalized questions and reflections...grants me a lot of perspective and lessens fear of this own sort of reflection in my mind!

@kayleighcurtis2481 2 жыл бұрын

I just really love this channel and this content ❤️

@mayacrowder3767 2 жыл бұрын

Damon thank you so much for this video! I also did lsd for the first time recently and had a similar experience to you (I wrote a 7 page mess of a google doc trying to get to the bottom of my brain). So nice to hear someone else who processed that experience similarly! I compared my trip after to the story of how Descartes deduced all he could be sure of is “I think therefore I am”

@burmy897 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video Damon! I myself have been on acid trips where I wonder if I will forever be stuck in that state for the rest of existence so I appreciate you sharing your experience lol

@islaperry5187 2 жыл бұрын

This is what I needed to hear!! ☺️

@pls-shanice 2 жыл бұрын

I like that you ask questions Damon

@victoriazuniga2323 2 жыл бұрын

I had my ego death in 2018 and I am now trying to rebuild myself again to enjoy life 😂 so your experience seems very relatable to me, thank you for sharing your thoughts ❤