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How Your Brain Predicts Your Reality & How To Be Calm and Why Should Be

Something You Should Know

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The Limits of Predicting

In general, you can't make yourself experience anything just by predicting it. Most of the predictions that are doing the work for constructing your experience are ones that your brain has learnt to make in an unconscious way over all the years of your life. And even if you could somehow say this is going to feel spectacular, it's never going to feeling spectacular. So because that's also deeply ingrained, there's quite a strong limit to what we can do at that very top level just by changing what I consciously say I predict.

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