Autistic Intuition

[RemyZee]

I think intuition is much like instinct. Maybe they're the same thing.

I don't know I think of instinct as primal and intuition as an inner knowledge, if that makes sense. Instinct is more like survival, whereas intuition is protective . I have no idea what I'm talking about, just seems that way.

 

[RemyZee]

Exactly... medical scenes in TV and movies... the worst. Almost every single scene they've cobbled together some old equipment laying around the studio, thrown in haphazardly into the situation in some attempt to make it look "real"... or they've concocted some totally bizarre situation that would never happen. My wife (a RN) and I cannot watch anything medical... at some point we are always ripping it apart or laughing at their attempts. "Who are their medical advisors?!" "Would never happen...ever." "Why is it no one is ever in the hallways at night?" "What hospital shuts off the lights at night?" "An emergency room doctor would never find him/herself out on the general floors or ICUs." "Not a single respiratory therapist?...RRTs are the ones running all the equipment!" "So...anyone can walk into a pharmacy storage room?" "Drugs are not kept in glass cabinets...anywhere...ever." "They are wearing oxygen in their nose... but the sound in the background is from a 1980's era mechanical ventilator?!" The complaints go on and on and on. It's terrible. It is ridiculously, comically, not realistic in any way.

For a very brief stint, I worked as an intern hospital chaplain--before I started hiding in the restroom every day to keep from having to talk to people--the chaplains who had been there a long time talked all the time about how different the truth is from the fiction of it. The experience of death exspecially is different from the fiction about it. At times there were ethereal things about it and humanity showing its best. It was also smelly, ugly and frightening. I have a lot of respect for people who work in those environments. Not easy.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

For a very brief stint, I worked as an intern hospital chaplain--before I started hiding in the restroom every day to keep from having to talk to people--the chaplains who had been there a long time talked all the time about how different the truth is from the fiction of it. The experience of death exspecially is different from the fiction about it. At times there were ethereal things about it and humanity showing its best. It was also smelly, ugly and frightening. I have a lot of respect for people who work in those environments. Not easy.

Yes, it really depends upon the situation. If you are working in the emergency room trauma bay... yeah... death can be rather... well... traumatic. On the other hand, if you are out on the general floors, perhaps with a terminal patient, surrounded by family, and it is more or less expected... the family sort of prepared for it... it can be a calm, sometimes relieving situation. It can be etherial... watching the person reach out to the angels in one final moment of clarity... then passing. Too many variables... so many different situations. Each is unique. If you work in healthcare long enough... and see enough... you realize that consciousness is unbound from the body in those final moments. That antiquated, materialistic model of the brain being the center of consciousness... falls apart when you start talking to scientists, of whom have had their own near death experiences. Their entire belief system wiped away.