Compulsion or Calling ?

[sakoz]

I was thinking of taking a 'hiatus' from posting anything for about a week.; but I have the 'urge' to share a idea that 'seems to me' to have merit.
I searched the web for  "Gun Shot Accidents"; there's a lot of them. I am interested in the cases where the persons say; "I thought the gun was empty." That statement indicates
at the moment of pulling the trigger they did NOT RECOGNIZE  that thought as thought , but as PERCEPTION (literally). Perceptions are convincing and compelling, unquestioned.
"All creatures are hard-wired, innately to (involuntarily)  react to perceptions." In these cases of gun "accidents", the thoughts function as perceptions.
It seems correct/accurate to say "the thought WAS perception", temporarily, and reverted back to thought when recognized it did NOT match the facts as a perception.
The fact was, the gun 'was' loaded; the thought that it was empty was a ASSUMPTION, incorrect and did not match the fact. Because the 'thought' was BELIEVED, it was convincingly "disguised" as a perception.  See the same process as in the placebo effect? The belief is not recognized as one's own thought. Some people seem not to extrapolate or generalize to seeing the process when they do it. They are not willing to admit it 'happens' to them. It 'can' happen to you.
We are a species that unknowingly are 'making' perceptions via believed thought, no wonder we're 'messing' up and inadvertantly causing ourselves emotional suffering and/or dysfunctional behavior.
Those that knowingly do it seem like genius.

[sakoz]

"Think of your brain".  A image comes to mind. Do you implicitly believe that image is of 'your' brain? or is it a generic image of what your brain would look like if removed from your skull and photographed? This minor error of believing your image is of 'your' brain has no untoward consequences, but there are OTHER contexts when you erroneously believe some of your images are real; the consequences are usually emotional suffering and/or dysfunctional behavior. (see example above of "empty gun") and myrid other "mistakes" prefaced by, "I thought......."

People are pulling the trigger of loaded guns because they HEED FALSE THOUGHTS instead of facts. They don't recognize THOUGHT-CREATED -PERCEPTIONS  as 'thought' originated.
Perceptions are not questioned; there reliable guides to survival, etc. But thought created ones ought to be questioned, but they are not and therein is one cause of needless suffering.
Reacting to perceptions is not the problem, the problem is not checking from where they come. For eons, perceptions of/from enviroment brought us to this stage. With the intro of language, we can MAKE/FABRICATE custom perceptions, but we don't recognize doing so. Where not only hard-wired innately to react to perceptions,but we're indoctrinated/habituated to react to 'thought-made-ones to.
Some who read THOUGHT-CREATED-PERCEPTIONS, those three words will 'not compute'. Some readers  claim they don't understand what I'm writing about. I reduced it to three words, how shorter can I make it?