I felt peaceable acceptance towards the notion of death. I’d like to live as long as I can, in good health, but admit I’m not making the normal amount of effort towards this. I have spent more time hacking subjective lifespan. Some days have more life in them than others. When I go to festivals, it seems like I pack a full month of living into 4-5 days. To me, this counts towards the same ultimate goal that living a longer period of time does.
Here are some ways I’ve thought of to do it.
- Do non-routine things. Time seems to pass at a quarter-speed when I’m traveling, when I do novel activities, or when I do things that scare me (usually socially, like public speaking).
- Right now my baby changes in some noticeable way every 2 weeks or so, and my days are subjectively longer because of the injected novelty.
- Mindfulness. I don’t do this much, however –this solves “the autopilot problem” by working on the perception/attention end, which I find much more difficult compared to working on the reality end (doing new things).
- Lucid dreaming. It’s free consciousness!