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Emotions HUD

Aloha and welcome to an introduction to

Emotions as your Heads-Up Display.

 

Yes, our emotions are a Heads-Up Display (HUD) for helping us navigate our own experiences of "reality!" Emotions notify us, as individuals, in real time, with feeling, so we can make our best decisions with our freewill.

 

Experience "reality" on purpose. ;)

( PAGE LAST UPDATED: JULY 10, 2026 )

INTRO TO EMOTIONS AS YOUR HUD

I believe the video speaks for itself, and it covers most of what is on this page.

EMOTIONS, Reality Re-Explained!

TO UNDERSTAND EMOTIONS AS A HUD, FIRST UNDERSTAND THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT HAPPENS AND WHAT WE EACH EXPERIENCE OF WHAT HAPPENS. 
EXPERIENCE OR HAPPENING?

There is a difference between what happens,

and an experience of what happens. 

 

What happens is the (consciousness-as-)matter movements.

What is experienced is the consciousness(with-emotions) movements.

 

It is important we know the difference before we can talk about our emotions HUD existing to help us navigate through our experiences and into desired happenings.

HAPPENING

Drivers cross paths,

driving through a round-about.

The crossing of paths and driving through a round-about are happenings, space-time "fixed" events of reality that were set into motion by "previous" happenings.

EXPERIENCE

What is experienced is entirely dependent on the consciousness of the individuals involved in said happening. The driver's perspectives of themselves, each other, their vehicles, the round about itself, life that day and life in general, shape each individual's independent experience.

EXPANDING ON THE UNDERSTANDING

To offer one example: The driver who hates round-abouts experiences being "cut off" by the driver who was on auto-pilot muscle-memory driving, not experiencing much at all about the round-about or crossing of paths, while a third driver experiences a delighted fun in zipping around the curves in perfect timing. (...because, for simplicity, our example drivers do not have sub-conscious beliefs at play. lol) Three different experiences of driving through the same round-about. If any of them reflected on the intial experience and made a different decision about what to believe about it, they'd experience something new about it too. 

HAPPENING IS NOT EQUAL TO EXPERIENCE

I am saying blatantly that what anyone experiences of a given happening is directly related to their own thoughts, perspectives, and beliefs about reality. I use the round-about as an example because you can test it with your family and friends. What happens is a different perspective than what is experienced, and while what happens happens, one can experience new experiences about a happening LONG after the happening has happened.

THE #1 MISUNDERSTANDING

ABOUT OUR EMOTIONS

IS THE BELIEF THAT

SOMEONE OR SOMETHING ELSE

CAUSED THEM.

( THE PARANORMAL IS ANOTHER CHAPTER OF THE STORY. WE TALK ABOUT IT LATER. )

So, FIRST, thank you for allowing us (you and me both) to be perfectly clear:

I AM THE CAUSE OF HOW I FEEL.

Physiologically, no person or thing or happening is reaching inside anyone else's body and forcing them to produce and process the electro-chemical cocktails we feel as our emotions.

Only when we each accept our own responsibility for how we feel,
can we make practical use of our feelings.
EMOTIONAL
FORTITUDE

Instead of something that controls and limits our lives, emotions become a tool for understanding our lives as we live them.

MENTAL
SECURITY

Instead of something we feel trapped in, confused by, or uncertain about, our minds become a tool for choosing our best lives.

UNDERSTANDABLE ANSWERS

Instead of answers that confuse or no answers at all, our minds and emotions can become tools for the asking and receiving of answers we can understand.

EMOTION [PHYSIOLOGY] BASICS

For those who want the refresher, or never knew.

THOUGHT,
PERSPECTIVE,
BELIEF

It is the conscious and unconscious thoughts, perspectives, and beliefs that electrically stimulate our brains and bodies to initiate energetic and physical changes in our beingness.
(we summarize this next)

ENERGY &
CHEMICAL
COCKTAILS

These electrical signals (the ones we just mentioned as thoughts, perspectives, and beliefs) turn on chemical manufacturers within our bodies, producing chemicals that carry their portions of the electrical signals to different and multiple parts of our bodies.

[image source: Remmy Ar'emen, 2019]

EMOTIONAL
FEELINGS &
EXPRESSIONS

The processing of these electrical signals and carrier chemicals is what turns on all our physical feelings like blushing, or feeling a pit in our stomachs, or dread in our chests, or the laughter that bubbles out of us, or the love we feel radiate out of us.

EMOTIONS [HUD] BASICS

As understood, ILLUSTRATED and described by M.E.,

the founder of lookpastit.com

WHAT IS A HUD, EXACTLY?

A HUD is a responsive/interactive data display that notifies us about stuff in real- time. The most familiar HUDs we use today are the gages in our automobiles, and the notifications bar/bubbles on our mobile-phones.

WHAT MAKES EMOTIONS OUR HUD?

We feel our emotions in real-time, they respond to us, and they actually notify us of stuff. A classic Heads-Up Display that we feel instead of see, as we interact with and make decisions about our "reality."

WHAT IF WE COULD SEE WHAT WE FEEL?

If our emotional heads-up display (emotions HUD, or eHUD) were to be visually displayed for us like a screen of data-meters, instead of just being felt throughout our beingness and bodies, we'd still have to learn how to read and make use of the HUD screen, right? ;)

EMOJI
-FEELINGS

"Emoji-feelings" are the feelings we have names for, like happiness, anger, fear, sadness and so on. Emoji-feelings are like indicator lights in our HUD, notifying us of our own thoughts and perspectives and beliefs about reality, not reality itself. We know this is so because our emoji-feelings change when we think, perceive, or believe differently of the same reality.

ENERGY
FEELINGS

Flowing through our emoji-feelings are other feelings that are the core of our eHUD; "energy feelings." We're talking about those sensations of an emoji-feeling, or group of emoji-feelings (happiness, anger, fear, sadness and so on), being felt instantly or gradually, escalating, de-escalating, or remaining even, of leaving us feeling no energy flow or limitless energy flow.

UNDERSTANDING
THE NUANCES

Emoji-feelings are what let us know we're feeling notifications about how we're processing our reality in the first place. Only through self- assessing these emoji-feelings and the energetic feelings flowing through them, can we understand what it is our emotions are telling us about ourselves. That's right, your emotions tell you about you, and my emotions tell me about me. (Again, we'll cover the paranormal later...)

This "Alignment Meter" shows the feeling of being "in the dark", confused, with solid black on one side, and solid white that represents our feelings of being "in the light", in total clarity of understanding on the other side. Between the two sides are shades of grey, darker on the dark side, and ligher on the light side, indicating our spectrum between total confusion and absolute clarity. This meter visualizes those sensations of clarity and confusion about your own feelings, which are your alignment indicators, telling you that you are aligned or misaligned with yourself, others, or reality. Misaligned, and there is confusion, while alignment offers clarity.

IN THE DARK

We're not talking about good and evil, but we are talking about that feeling of being in the dark where even the questions to ask elude us. This confused nothingness is just an indicator of misalignment with everything else, which we know is so because when we realign (usually through appreciation or meditation or both), we can see the darkness we were in. From the dark, we just have to know the light is out there and choose it in whatever way we can in every moment that we can.

SHADES OF G R E Y

Even a little light is better than being in the dark. As example, a misunderstanding can bring you to understanding. We live most of our lives in shades of grey, not always knowing what questions to ask and not always having answers for those questions we do ask. These are symptom of our partial alignments, just letting us know through sensation, that we're not totally in the light.

IN THE LIGHT

Feeling in the light is like living a fiber-optic life; fiber optics exist because light transmits data, so that feeling of everything being available to you and your freewill whims, including what questions to ask and the answers for them, is an indicator of being in alignment with yourself, others, and reality. This is our natural state, and why meditation (the clearing of ones thoughts and just being, for one) helps us regain light from darker states.

This "Perspective Meter" shows new "forming" ideas as small black dots on one side, and a black wall with diamond holes that represents our "fixed" ideas already set in our minds, on the other side. Between the two sides, the black wall opens into the black dots and the dots get bigger and closer until they form the black wall. This visual representation of these energetic feelings is the part telling us whether we're feeling our feels because of new ideas we're "forming" right now, or "fixed" ideas that we've established as perspectives and beliefs, or a bit of both.

FORMING
THOUGHTS & IDEAS

When we feel our emoji- feelings gradually, perhaps even with fluxuations, where we're not sure what we feel, it is because we are establishing what we think and believe, and therefore what we feel. That gradual sensation, and the sensation of the fluidity of emotions, is the notification of forming perspectives.

NEW & SET
PERSPECTIVES

The effortless juggle of new perspectives and set beliefs is something of a Goldie-Locks zone of mental-emotional health. Stay too long in only new ideas and we become unhinged, uncertain, and indecisive, but stay too long in only set beliefs and we become delusional, predictable, and bigoted.

FIXED 
BELIEFS

It's those fixed ideas that we have established as beliefs that create what we call "triggers," and what gives us the false impression we feel before thinking anything, simply because the thoughts have been thought so consistently, the emotion network IS easy-button responsive, just like a trigger.

This "Energy Meter" shows itself like a fuel gage, with "empty" representing no-to-low flow of energy on one side and "full" representing high-to-limitless energy flow on the other side. That "no energy flow" to "limitless energy flow" spectrum in our emoji-feelings is the part telling us whether our thoughts/perspectives/beliefs (new or established) are disempowering or empowering, or wobbling between the two.

NO to LOW
ENERGY

That sensation of no energy or low energy is our indicator of thoughts and perspectives (new and established) that are literally stopping our natural energy flow, thereby disempowering us mentally, emotionally, and physically. The feeling is just a notification of our state.

ENERGY FLOW
AND FLUX

When the energy flow feels like it stops, we mentally, emotionally and physically feel less capable (and with consistency, become less capable), while in the feeling of limitless energy flow, we mentally, emotionally, and physically feel more capable (and with consistency, become more capable.) 

LIMITLESS
ENERGY

The feeling of limitless energy flow is a notification of our thoughts and perspectives (new and established) keeping the natural flow of energy going, literally empowering us mentally, emotionally and physically. This is our natural state of being and why meditation, clearing one's thoughts and just being (for one), is vital for cleaning our mental filters to keep the natural energy flow going.

This "REV Meter" shows itself like an escalation of lines, where the smaller lined end is representing low REV, "I got this!" feels, and the maxed out end is representing max REV, "burnt out!" feels. Those feelings of intensity that are varying degrees of exhausting are the parts of our HUD that tells us about hype and false hope, about spending energy to feel energy in ways that give us a boost, and ways that burn us out.

REVVING
UP

Revving ourselves up is something we've learned to do when we didn't feel the energy flow naturally, or as abundantly as we wanted, and we wanted to feel the boost anyway. "Fake it till you make it." In short bursts, this spending of energy to feel energy works, and we feel that state of being we want and it's easier to appreciate it, and with practice, to stay in the better flowing state from there.

STAYING
R E V V E D

Staying revved long-term doesn't really work. If we don't find the natural flow again, usually through appreciation, excitement, and/or meditation, we just keep spending the energy to feel the boost and everything we feel is intense and only getting more intense! That hyper intensity feeling is the indicator of our own energy being spent to feel the flow of energy that is usually natural.

RED-
LINING

Eventually, the intensity maxes out and we get burnt out. We succumb to exhaustion and helplessness. Often, the physical effects take us out and force us to calm down, to stop spending energy to feel it, to meditate or sleep or both. Thus, help restore the natural flow of energy so we may choose again, to rev-up or not.

This "Vibration (VIBES) Meter" shows itself like a squiggly line where the looser, more open end of the squiggle is representing low vibrations and the tighter, more narrow end of the squiggle is representing high vibrations. This is the sensation of our channels of experience. Basically the combination of emoji-feels and energy-feels that seems like TV channels we end up living on, and we feel this VIBES meter as feeling disgruntled, disempowered, and helpless to inspired, empowered, and unstoppable, and the spectrum in between.

LOW VIBRATION
STATES

That sensation of life being pointless and things being impossible or no use, of life being so hard we just don't want to do it anymore, that we feel drained and trudging through life is our indicator of low vibratory states. These are the states we are in when we have accidents and get sick. The feeling is just a notification of our state.

MID VIBRATION
STATES

When we stay in the lower frequency states of being longterm, we don't progress very far very fast, but if we stay in high frequency states of being long-term, we progress so far and so fast we cease to be on this physical plane. So, the ideal is those mid- frequency channels of experience, with some wobbling into the lower and higher states to maintain perspective.

HIGH VIBRATION
STATES

The sensation of experiences being easy and connected, things being possible and even inevitable, and life being full of wonders and meaning, that we feel invigorated and inspired by all aspects of life are notifications of high frequency states of being. The feeling is just a notification of our state.

All of these sensations bring us to six basic "heads-up"s.
They help us identify exactly why we feel the way we feel,
in any given moment, of any day, past, present, and future.
Heads-up #1

FEELING EMOTIONS

 

You are feeling emotions, therefore you are alive and in a body with an emotions HUD, yay!

Heads-up #2

GRADUAL FEELINGS

 

Gradual feelings, forming feelings indicate new and forming thoughts/perspectives/beliefs.

Heads-up #3

INSTANT FEELINGS

 

Easy-button, instant feelings indicate established thoughts/perspectives/beliefs.

Heads-up #4

ESCALATING FEELINGS

 

Escalating feelings (technically de-escalating feelings too), indicate that we're thinking the same thought on repeat, or following similar thoughts. If we are consistent enough in this, we create number 3's, triggers.

Heads-up #5

BAD FEELINGS

 

Those bad feelings, the ones we don't prefer, are just indicating to us our state of mind, our channel of experience, our current vibrating frequency of being. This feeling reminds us it is our own thoughts, perspectives and beliefs which are disempowering us.

Heads-up #6

GOOD FEELINGS

 

It may become normal to feel bad, but as soon as we feel good we also feel more ourselves, and that is not a coincidence. That good feeling is indicating that our thoughts and perspectives and beliefs are in alignment and empowering us.

INTERNAL COMPASS

SELF AND OTHER SELF

Basically, as individuals, we navigate our experience of reality, on purpose, by assessing how we feel about it, and keeping or changing our thoughts, perspectives or beliefs as desired. When we hold on to our established thoughts, perspectives and beliefs about reality, we experience them again and again in variety. When we change our mind and think, perceive or believe something new about the same reality, we experience something new of the same reality. That is the basis of having a HUD, of experiencing happenings with not just thought but feelings, our feelings help us fine-tune the next experiences. Assuming of course we know how to use them.

 

In this, our greatest challenge as people on Earth has been the balance between self and other-self, "others," both in how we perceive and deal with self and others, as well as how we perceive others perceive and deal with self and others. So, our emotions HUD has evolved to include an internal compass that indicates when we're living our best lives and when we are taking detours, and why.

DETOUR INTO SELF

When we spend to much time thinking only about what we have, our own experiences, and our own thoughts, we go on a detour into self. If we stay on the self detour we may one day discover we think our way of perceiving and experiencing reality is the only way, and worse, we may become intolerant and bigoted when it comes to others' perspectives and perspective experiences.

DETOUR INTO OTHERS

Likewise, when we spend too much time thinking about what others have (or don't have,) do or don't do, experience or don't experience, and think or don't think, and we go on a detour into others. If we keep doing it, we may discover one day we are living our lives by the dictation of others, or even our perception of how others will perceive ... whatever.