Stream of Consciousness

What We Call Demons (And Why Integration Feels Impossible)
An exploration of how the word “demon” distorts trauma, shadow work, and nervous-system dysregulation — and why integration requires renaming what we fear.
By Flower InBloomabout a month ago in Humans
Are We Closer Than We Think?
Lately, I have been thinking about something that feels uncomfortable to admit. Are we, as human beings, closer to psychological instability than we would like to believe? Not in a clinical sense. Not in the dramatic way people imagine madness. I mean in the quiet psychological sense. The sense where one more small trigger feels like it could push someone over the edge.
By Eunice Kamauabout a month ago in Humans
If I Were Rich, I Would Finally Stop Surviving (Unofficial Challenge)
When people ask what I would do if I were rich, they expect sparkle in my eyes. A car. A house. A plane ticket somewhere warm and unnecessary.
By Lori A. A.about a month ago in Humans
I Googled “How to Disappear Legally” at 2:17 a.m.
At 2:17 a.m., I typed three words into Google. How to disappear legally. I didn’t hesitate. I didn’t correct the phrasing.
By Lori A. A.about a month ago in Humans
The New Fog Of Footage
Modern life now includes a daily guessing game nobody asked for. Every time a video appears on X, Facebook, TikTok, or any other platform, you have to pause and ask a question that should never have been necessary.
By Dr. Mozelle Martinabout a month ago in Humans
The Quiet Violence of Merit
We like to believe in merit. We say the word as if it were a clean equation: work hard, get results. Study longer, rise higher. Try again, succeed eventually. Merit promises fairness without sentimentality. It offers order. It tells us that outcomes are earned.
By Lori A. A.about a month ago in Humans
Three-stranded braid of failing Cs: Christianity, Capitalism, Consumerism
Scrooge. What a word. Invented by Charles Dickens back in the 1840's as the name for his deplorably wealthy antagonist in the story "A Christmas Carol". Now, in modern English, a Scrooge is a miserly, greedy "person" who deprioritizes actual people in order to better fixate on money.
By Sam Spinelliabout a month ago in Humans
Fatigue
It was like the flip of a coin or a flip of a switch, until everything we knew or thought we knew was upended and dismantled, right down to our own humanity. COVID
By Kelli Sheckler-Amsdenabout a month ago in Humans
The Tomb Called Justice
The courthouse looms at the town’s center like a tomb that refuses to stay closed, a monument of cold marble and older secrets. Its columns do not merely support a roof; they form the ribcage of an idea—that human suffering can be bled out, measured, and bottled in the name of peace. Above the bench, the scales hang like the iron skeleton of a trapped bird, eternally suspended in a room that smells of dust and the metallic tang of old fear.
By Ginny Brownabout a month ago in Humans
Vocally - A platform that refuses to speak.. Runner-Up in A System That Isn’t Working Challenge.
There is a platform that forgets or refuses to speak frankly At first, the quiet feels like a glitch. A missed notification.
By Novel Allenabout a month ago in Humans
The Weight of Maybe. Content Warning.
Trigger Warning: Sexual coercion and emotional manipulation Authors Note: This piece explores the confusion, mental conflict, and questioning that can follow experiences of coercive intimacy, a lack of clarity that often lingers long after an experience ends. If you relate to the themes present in this piece, you are not alone.
By Grace Ryderabout a month ago in Humans
The Hunger That Remains
3$ 10 He strolled down the street. The shop owners were unlocking their doors and placing display racks outside to tempt passing pedestrians.
By Henrik Hagelandabout a month ago in Humans