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The Sense of Living Without Depth
The sense of living without depth can feel like standing where everything is visible at once.
Nothing pulls you inward. Nothing holds layers.
Experience stays near the surface, calm but thin.
This is not a collapse or a flaw—it is a condition where intensity has withdrawn.
Naming it allows the shallowness to exist without forcing meaning back into it.
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Frequently Asked Questions
I feel "shallow," like I'm just a surface with no depth. Is my soul gone?
No. This is "Living Without Depth." Your Narrative System is prioritizing Processing Speed over emotional resonance. Naming this without framing it as "failure" allows you to glide through life with less friction. Depth is metabolically expensive; being "surface-level" is your system’s way of resting its deep-processing circuits.
How do I get my "depth" back?
You don't "get it back" through effort. Effort creates more Internal Velocity, which keeps you on the surface. Depth returns when the system feels safe enough to "sink" into experience again. For now, enjoy the Efficiency of the Surface. You are still the same "dense" human; you’re just operating in a 2D mode for conservation.