Alone or Not Alone .......for How Long.......?

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How long do you manage being Alone without going crazy...?


With no people at all around
- for how long time will you stay psychologically well-balanced...
or even enjoy the situation...?

All practical, physiological things "will be fixed" for the future.
The struggle is only within your mind/heart, between yourself and your longing to be with other humans.

If you want a clearer context for the question:
Let's say you are on a spaceship
with a computer you can communicate with just seven persons through,
only writing, not speaking, not seeing living pictures of them,
but with some movies and books in your library onboard
(and with the possibility of meeting some creature somewhere in space).







I'm aware of this being an extremely hypothetic question
and you can modify it as you want.
Maybe none of us can answer out of experience,
but the point is getting to know how well we think/feel we would stay comfortable with being complete alone...
...just writing/reading stories about reality,
to which degree our inner world functions solipsistic or craves contact with others.

If you've already tested your limits, I can instead ask for how long you actually managed being alone
and which motivation was your primary for changing the situation...?



[Doesn't this imply we're psychologically well balanced to start with? What does it mean to be well balanced?]

You're right, I'm assuming we're already (RELATIVELY) well from the start!

Being balanced - well : Can this be a question of how well we interplay with other individuals...? Or in this case : how well we interplay with our own imagination of the possibility of others...

But since this tells nothing about what it is, I suggest psychological balance can be the ability NOT to identify oneself TOO deep with an emotion or a thought. In other words the ability to be flexible, to discover different spectras, BUT with enough consistence to avoid getting lost in relativity, to keep centered long enough around something.......



And if I were alone in space, i'd try to join a group of asteroids :)



[Another question; would you know that you have gone crazy?!]

Hmm, would we know when we have gone crazy...?
Would we know this without other individuals as "mirrors"?
Maybe you already thought in that way...?

I can see the possibility you still can know, but only IF you have something human, let's say already written books, to meassure your present state of consciousness against, to compare your actual experience with.

But then we still will need faith in the existence of the humans who wrote the books, that they exist (or have existed, if you don't believe in reincarnation).
Maybe something like keep ones faith in God...?

And let's say if you observe how the planets outside your spaceship behave in the way written in your books, then it's naturally easier to feel connection, not being alone, 'cause someone else obviously has observed (or figured out) the same world.


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