Cosmic horrors and entities

also if you have any ideas on where I could start to look further into this such as books or news articles I'd appreciate that quite a lot.

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>>17476549
You're asking multiple things, so I'll address the two most obvious ones.

Cosmic horrors, as in huge critters living in space. If we knew of any, we'd be eaten by now. It's within the realm of possibility that such things exist. Our current science can barely detect planets around neighboring stars.

Sanity check failure. It is possible to see something that voids the warranty on your brain? Probably. Pic related. If you encounter something you can't handle, you either take refuge in denial or you blue screen. There are some cool experiments where people simply did not notice the guy in the gorilla suit.

>>17476742
sorry if I asked too many questions. It's a pretty vague subject so to maximize interest I asked a few different questions relating to one topic. Now we've talked about the possibility of cosmic horrors existing in space but what about smaller scale creatures living in our oceans? The bloop has some potential and if you don't dismiss it as glacial movement it isn't too much of a stretch to think it's simply a disturbing horror laying dormant at the bottom of our deepest oceans. That's not what I believe as of right now but if given some kind of evidence I may be convinced. It's a lot of ifs but I just don't see a reason why it couldn't be something at least similar to Cthulhu

>>17476558
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoMadFromTheRevelation

Might be of some use to you

No way to know for sure, but I definitely believe there are things outside of human comprehension in the universe. I think no one will ever truly know though. Lovecraft's word sum up my view on the subject better than anything.
"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

>>17477489
I just got incredibly stoned so your summary of Lovecraft's philosophy is making me trip my shit in a good way

>>17477721
Getting fucked up and reading Lovecraft is the best worst decision you can ever make.

I do believe that Lovecraftian monsters actually do exist in another universe.

>>17476742
>your waifu isin't real

>>17476549
they're just metaphors for the acknowledgment of mortality

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>>17478961
NOOOO

>>17479435

Lovecraft was a fairly firm materialistic atheist. Some of his monsters were the corruption of the idea of deities. He appeared to hate any form of supertistion and took no religion seriously (although not to the point of Dawkin fanboys.)

>>17477489
>t. cowardly intellectual light weight

>>17476742

>There are some cool experiments where people simply did not notice the guy in the gorilla suit.

could you link some? thanks

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>>17476549
I used to wonder if we are just in an area in the universe that has certain physical properties and that the big bang was just a small local "explosion".
Maybe the further we go the more unnatural (from out point of view) the properties of space and time are.
Reality itself might just be a property, one of many.
Our universe may as well be a giant neutron in a single water molecule in Azathoth's glass of orange juice.
On a serious note though, we probably shouldn't dig too deep, remember what happened to dwarves.

>>17480036
*tips fedora*

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I like to think that creatures Lovecraft wrote about actually exist these days through collective thought.

The concept of Tulpa and collective thought terrifies me to no end.

>>17480567

Considering his intense obsession with a few of them, Nightgaunts in particular (which had plagued his dreams ever since he was a child) I could believe it.

>>17480066
http://www.livescience.com/6727-invisible-gorilla-test-shows-notice.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness