...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

Although the only way that I'm well known at Illinois State is that I am the "grammar Nazi." And so any student whose deployment of a semi-colon is not absolutely Mozart-esque knows that they're going to get a C in my class, and so my classes tend to have like four students in them. It's really a lot of fun.

Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually deploys epiphany as a metaphor. It is usually only in dramatic representations, religious iconography, and the 'magical thinking' of children that insight is compressed to a sudden blinding flash.

My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.