Finitude of Emotions - Between Intensity and Forgetting – Decolonial Neuroscience SfN Brain Bee
Finitude of Emotions - Between Intensity and Forgetting – Decolonial Neuroscience SfN Brain Bee
First-Person Consciousness
“I am the emotion that pulses within me. In the day, I vibrate as joy, explode as anger, collapse as sadness, ignite as love. I give color and rhythm to consciousness, move decisions, shape memories. But when night comes, I begin to lose contours: I feel smaller, dissolved in waves that no longer fix themselves. In deep sleep, I discover that I am not eternal — I am flow, intensity that dissolves to be reborn at dawn.”
Emotion and the Damasian Mind
Emotions: short, rapid bioelectrical discharges that mobilize body and attention.
Feelings: metabolic stabilizations of these emotions, sustaining belonging and identity.
Damasian Mind: integrates both dimensions within the body-territory, as records of belonging in the mental hyperspace.
Inference: emotion is a lightning bolt that illuminates; feeling is the fire that warms. Both meet their finitude in sleep, where they reorganize to avoid overloading the mind.
The Finitude of Emotions in Sleep
N1: emotional fragments appear as loose images, echoes of daytime tensions.
N2: spindles stabilize emotional traces, reducing the chance of rumination.
N3: slow waves attenuate exaggerated reactions; here, anger and sadness find a space of damping.
REM tonic: emotions return as symbolic scenarios, without linearity, adjusting extended proprioception (Apus).
REM phasic: feelings and emotions blend into vivid narratives, creating dreamlike stories that may relieve or transform emotional burden.
Neuroscience of Emotion in Sleep
EEG: higher delta amplitude in N3 correlates with reduced emotional reactivity.
fNIRS: prefrontal deoxygenation in deep sleep favors the integration of emotions into feelings.
SpO₂: its decline during sleep allows reduced alert states, essential for emotional dissolution.
Integration: the finitude of emotions is part of the balancing process between limbic networks (amygdala) and prefrontal networks.
When Finitude is Blocked
Anxiety and depression: maintain hyperactivity of the amygdala, preventing emotions from dissolving.
Trauma: fragments N3 and REM, causing intense emotions to invade dreams.
Zone 3: the body remains on alert, preventing the natural drop of tensions and keeping the Tensional Self trapped in repetitive narratives.
For Clinicians and Caregivers
Promote rituals of slowing down before sleep (breathing, slow music, emotion writing).
Avoid intense emotional stimuli at night (news, social media).
In palliative care: recover positive emotional memories as anchors of belonging and softening of pain.
Connectomes and Emotions
Emotions, intense and fleeting, also meet their finitude in the modes of Brain Connectomes. Scissors acts by cutting and classifying emotional states, turning sensations into comprehensible narratives. Stone arises when an emotion crystallizes into automatic responses of fight, flight, or freeze, restricting the flow of experience. Paper corresponds to the Body-Territory in Zone 2, where emotions can dissolve into belonging and fruition, opening space for critical reorganization and balance. Thus, the finitude of emotions does not mean denying them, but recognizing the transition across connectomes that bring them forth, intensify them, and finally let them fade into the creative silence of the body.
Conclusion
Emotions are necessary explosions of consciousness, but their continuous permanence exhausts body and mind. The night is the natural laboratory of emotional finitude: in it, excesses dissolve, tensions are pruned, and emotions are transformed into more stable feelings. At dawn, we do not awaken empty of emotion but renewed in the possibility of feeling again.
References
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