Quote: (12-11-2013 01:07 AM)reaper23 Wrote:
@sharkie:
so what you've said is that i should take extended breaks from fucking to get that old feeling back?
i think Athol Kay actually advocates some of that for his soft approach to saving marriages. but it puts all the power in the hands of the woman.
Ive been chasing the dragon for about three years now...nothing i do seems to make it the way it was
I am not advising you anything.
Ive read a lot of your posts on RVF and you seem like an insightful poster and think that you'll probably have taken the appropriate measures chasing the dragon.
A reset does help, whether it is naturally or deliberately induced.
However, there are degrees to which you can go back.
Can you experience the rush of emotion when you first had mind blowing sex? No.
Can you get back a modicum of excitement, a certain degree of pleasure on the second bang? Perhaps.
I was a hookah addict for 4 years straight.
Still remember the first 2-3 months when we ran off to a shady place near my house and we used to sit and smoke and act like we were kings of the world. Best time of my life. Best bang frequency of my life.
The place shut down, and we moved to a different place. Wasn't good enough. Moved to a high end place. Wasn't good enough. Bought a custom made hookah at home,pure flavors, hired a guy who had a FUCKIN DEGREE in hookah making from someplace in Dubai. Still wasn't good enough. For four years, I tried to recapture the "magic" of the first few months.
Different sheeshas, different flavours, different environments, different coal,different smoking pipes, different hookah bases...
Replace Sharkie with Reaper and the pleasure from smoking hookah by the pleasure from having sex.
Fool's gold.
Sure, I abstained from hookah occasionally, and that made me more desperate once I went back, and marginally improved the pleasure of it...but that was probably from the stress of trying to kick the habit.
2 reasons why you probably will never be able to recapture the past "glory", so to speak, might be -
1- The brain will distort your past memories to make them more palatable to you. The memory you have of yourself and your experiences in the past will be exaggerated towards the positive end of the spectrum.
You will now remember yourself being happier at a point in time than you actually were. The impact of significant events such as 26/11, your first fight, the first time you made a girl squirt etc will appear to be more than what it was...and you may essentially be chasing an impossible target.
2- Beyond a certain number of repetitions, I think one becomes weary / jaded of an activity which involves(or at least in the beginning involved) some sort of reward such as a dopamine hit. No amount of stop gaps or resets can help beyond this stage. The neural wiring just wont change unless something really drastic happens, and that something drastic might often be traumatic and/or paralyzing... not a neurobiologist or anything, so I can't corroborate this claim.
This state of disrepair may be
temporarily offset by the spillover of emotions from a highly rewarding newer activity.
Hence the first question to you.