It is natural to seek stimulation in the face of numbness, but true awakening often begins with thinking about the "need for stimulation" itself. The following provides a multi-level perspective exploration plan, please be sure to try it within the scope of ensuring safety and legal permission： --- ### Ⅰ. Cognitive restart experiment (no external stimulation required) 1. **Sensory deprivation cabin experience** Floating in an all-black silent environment for 3 hours, the brain will spontaneously generate terrifying illusions that are more realistic than any haunted house. The New York University experiment showed that 73% of the subjects had "nihilistic fear", which is the ultimate question about the nature of existence. 2. **Memory backtracking method** Re-watching the home videos of one's birth to the present for 72 consecutive hours, the time compression effect will cause an existential crisis. Japanese neuroscientists have found that this kind of exercise activates the insular cortex of the brain, resulting in a weird experience of "self-dissociation". 3. **Language stripping challenge** Go to a country where you don't understand the language at all to live alone for a week without using any translation tools. Research by the University of Cambridge has confirmed that after language deprivation for more than 120 hours, humans will enter a state of "cognitive infancy", triggering primitive fear instincts. --- ### Ⅱ. Social mirror image experiment (high risk and cautious) 1. **Identity replacement game** Exchange clothes with the homeless and live for three days, carrying only enough change to buy water. The Berlin sociological experiment showed that 78% of middle-class participants suffered permanent social cognitive trauma as a result. 2. **Electronic split personality** Use AI to generate 5 social accounts with different personalities and operate at the same time within three months. Stanford warns that this division of digital identity may lead to emotional dissociation in reality. 3. **Death rehearsal plan** Contact a hospice care institution as a volunteer to accompany 10 dying people for the last 72 hours in a row. This existential impact far exceeds the intensity of any horror experience. --- ### Ⅲ. The ultimate philosophical tool 1. **Practice of the paradox of Theseus' Ship** Change a certain part of the body (dentures, wigs, prostheses, etc.) every day to record changes in self-awareness. When the replacement exceeds 60% of the body, it will produce a terrifying sense of "not me". 2. **Quantum Suicide Simulator** Experience 1000 different ways to die in VR, and the system automatically generates a survival version of the parallel universe after each "death". The system developed by MIT has caused 23% of users to experience a short-term loss of reality. 3. **Space-time dislocation diary** From today on, use a future date to write a diary (such as 2040.1.1) and watch your photos from 20 years ago simultaneously. This kind of space-time distortion exercise will gradually destroy linear time cognition. --- ### Ⅳ. Safety warnings and alternatives If the above plan still can't pierce your numb shell, maybe you should think about it: is this state of pursuing extreme stimulation itself a greater mental crisis? It is recommended to read "Existence and Nothingness" with a cold bath at 5 o'clock in the morning 3 times a week. This kind of gentle and persistent stimulation may rebuild nerve sensitivity. The ultimate recommendation: Before trying any extreme experience, make an appointment for a psychiatrist's sand table game treatment. The Jungian school believes that the release of subconscious fear through symbolic experience in a safe environment is more conducive to psychological reconstruction than real adventure. Numbness is often a self-protection mechanism opened by the mind, and forcible tearing may be counterproductive.