TLDR: We have overworked our sensory system that processes the feelings of pleasure and reward and the quick short term dopamine is actually hacking our receptors and making us prone to feeling glum, depressed etc because our brains weren’t designed for such short term pleasures. I myself am guilty of such cheap dopamine fixes, from the moment I wake up to the time I go to bed in between I compulsively and unwittingly exploit my dopamine and reward system by seeking social media content, playing app store games, watching some quick reel, binging on some healthy snack and furthermore. It’s a huge waste of money and potential. It’s a circle from which escape doesn’t come easy. I hope for our sakes that sometime in future we get to see renaissances of some kind where we at minimum try to hold back ourselves from quick rewards, instant pleasure and practice the skill of delaying our gratification.
I am not only speaking for myself but also for people around me as after observations and interactions have gathered enough intelligence to say that people can’t seem to stop chasing dopamine no matter how hard they try.
In my experience (which isn’t particularly wide ranging and needs more curating) I’d say chasing dopamine.
Hello,hope y'all doin good, i came to Quora to share my strange story , a very weird one , a story when luck smiled at me ,maybe u will enjoy it , let's begin,have fun...
A year ago ,I was a real porn addicted(btw I was 18) ,but never had sex before, I don't have a gf I didn't try to find one even ,always thinking to go to find a sex worker but then I just don't , everyday watching different bodies getting fucked and everyday enjoying.
One day, I was watching porn, a big ass lady with big boobs ,just after seeing her the image of my female cousin poped in my mind, (let's introduce her : she's 35 years old , very big ass , nice boobs ,not very big but nice,always wearing tight clothes , she's divorced ) and I thought of me fucking her ,I never had sexual desires for her but now I do days went by and when I met her I was so horny ,I couldn't stay with the family cz my penis was clearly erected , I realized this is my first time I get horny for one of my family ,it not illegal in my country.well to make a long story short( if u want details just text me I will tell u 😊),I decided to give her signs that I want to fuck her,finally I decided to have sex and with my cousin , I thought it is the best beggining for me, i started touching her when I came across her in a narrow place , make her feel my hard cock when we hug , I thought it will hard and I will be ashamed but no , I felt nothing and she said nothing , probably she thought it was by mistake,anyways, I decided then to talk with her about sex, waited for her to be alone in a room and talk with her, I confessed everything about me watching porn and addicted..etc,she said it's normal and u are growing up and u must have sex,well at that time I was like whaaat????? Well I didn't control myself and asked her for sex ( horny like I Ve never been before) she said that she will think Abt it ,2 weeka went by then she called me ,telling that she reserved a room in a hotel and we meet tonight ,we met,and bruuhh, sex is great , I mean, I had to find a pirstitue ,what I was waiting for to have such a feeling ????, I will never forget that night, I started kissing her she was kissing hard ,she misses sex so bad , she sucked my dick and swallowed my semen ,I felt I'm in a dream , then when fucked ,her ass was very big and the anus was open ,didn't struggle to get my hard cock inside it , she was obviously missing sex , she was shouting ,fuck me yh fuck me , I go fast after every word until I cum , we did that 3 times , then we went to her pussy , using condoms I fucked her so hard the moans were higher , everything was perfect ,in the end I asked her to lick her body , licked pussy ,ass, boobs,then she sucked my cock until we sleeped ,all I know that she was dirty ,well before even having sex with her I knew she is an open minded woman , and a woman that looks that she donesnt know anything , but she knows everything, but never expected having sex with her ,well she was horny and that helped...but no one of us regretted that sex ever..
We still have sex from time to time ,and I started having sex with sex workers , joining threesomes..etc
If u want pics of her text me.
Be it cigarettes, marijuana, Netflix n chill, binging on snacks, sugary desserts, masturbation, porn, casual hook-ups, social media, reels, alcohol, fast drives or whatever quick pleasure that we can take. Apparently people now can’t go through their day without accessing dopamine of some kind.
The modern cultural shifts that we have experienced in the past 2 decades or so have definitely depleted our healthy dopamine levels and since there is so much easy access to everything and life has just become so instant, fast and convenient that in all aspects we are chasing various forms of cheap dopamine multiple times a day. It has also become a coping or escape mechanism of sorts to deal with things that throw us a little of our balance or things that we in general find difficult to deal with(some problem or the other does crop up every now and then).
Dopamine in simple words I’ll try to explain is a neurotransmitter that works by sending signals between the nerves of our brains. It makes us feel good, happy, excited and is essentially linked to the reward system part of our brain. It is released in our brain in the midst of activities that are pleasure-inducing to our senses.
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