[merylsilverburg]

What is the deal anyway? Am I not speaking English or something that people have to misunderstand what I meant by "normal state"?

Originally Posted by Kaena

but i think what Meryl is trying to say when she says "normal" state is not being under the influence of any kind of drugs, not being under the influence of any substance than can alter one's preception of what it's real and what it's not..

Yes, this is exactly what I'm talking about. Thank goodness you came along and clarified it (even though I have already said it right here

Originally Posted by merylsilverburg

Okay, perhaps we all shouldn't have used "normal state"...maybe we should've used "the state of being aware/alert of one's surroundings" instead. We all didn't think there would be a person on here who would take the word "normal state" so literally.

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As I also said in the above quote, perhaps we all shouldn't use "normal state" because we didn't think there was someone who would take it so literally. It was just a term to use, maybe we shouldve used a "realistic state" but then that's wrong too.

Originally Posted by dan da man

There is no such thing as a normal state, you're born into the this world and have a personality and mind and you take it from there, drugs take away the feature your born with and place it temporally with a artificial feeling/world.

Somehow I don't quite understand what you mean by this.