Author Topic: How happy are you (Read 3993 times)

A person is only happy when they are being subjected to dopamine, so unless someone is constantly being subjected to dopamine everyone's rating should technically be around 1/10. People are gauging how happy they are in relation to other, perceivably opposite emotions, which is also skewed since you can be happy while sad or angry. A better scale would be how contempt you are, because you can't be contempt with something while sad or angry at it, or how happy we should be, since we can have reason to be happy, like having something we wanted or being with a loved one, but we don't actually feel happy because we aren't paying attention to those things or thinking about them in a way that makes us feel happy.

Emotions are complicated, gauging anything is tricky because it would be like asking how far away a star is while giving a person only 10 distances to choose from.

It's not like when you're unhappy there is absolutely zero dopamine in your head. At any given moment there is a constant amount of dopamine, otherwise you're practically 100% pure anger all the time. Every chemical that creates an emotion is always present in your brain at any given moment, rather in different levels at different times. You're looking at it too specifically.