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Does Your Mind Race Constantly?
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ObliviousGenius
Life is a side scroller, keep moving.
I can really relate to the OP. If I'm moving, walking, etc., it's not as bad as if I'm sitting still. In class, I can completely lose track of time inside my head. When I'm high on marijuana- which is about 40% of the time I'm awake- My thoughts literally never stop moving unless I consciously look to outside world. It really is strange because when I'm in my head I can't see or hear anything. When I focus on my senses it's like someone just unmuted a tv. All my thoughts are usually trivial unless I think of something earlier that was important or if I use intuitive foresight to see the immediate future.
ilike2poison
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I don't mind being stuck in my head all day. In fact, I think I subconsciously do it on purpose. The happenings of the outside world seem absolutely trivial; where average-minded people struggle to solve average-sized problems with emotion and irrationality. How often have you not been interrupted from your thoughts by some insignificant social dilemma? "Joane and Gloria got into a fight today at work..."
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Ah, but not in here. In here things either make sense and become part of a bigger equation, or they don't and get tossed away. IDEAS are what we thrive on. Outside events are almost meaningless unless they can be used for viable data. I'll jump from quantum mechanics to theology and back in a second. Faster than I can explain to someone. If I bothered speaking my thoughts for every idea I had, I'd spend over 20 mins explaining each plus maybe having to draw it. Thoughts are faster. They come in almost visual form, create whole ideas and vanish. Poof! That quickly. That complete. Then we move on. I'd be willing to bet that INTPs as a whole average at least 15 points higher than other types on IQ tests, just based on the speed and sometimes uncontrollable amount of thinking we do(that wasn't meant to insult, sorry if it did).
Honestly speaking though, this amount of thinking is not something I can turn off even when I've tried to do it. So I defend it and say it's an advantage, because I'd hate to look at it as a curse.
so. Unimportant information.
Ah, but not in here. In here things either make sense and become part of a bigger equation, or they don't and get tossed away. IDEAS are what we thrive on. Outside events are almost meaningless unless they can be used for viable data. I'll jump from quantum mechanics to theology and back in a second. Faster than I can explain to someone. If I bothered speaking my thoughts for every idea I had, I'd spend over 20 mins explaining each plus maybe having to draw it. Thoughts are faster. They come in almost visual form, create whole ideas and vanish. Poof! That quickly. That complete. Then we move on. I'd be willing to bet that INTPs as a whole average at least 15 points higher than other types on IQ tests, just based on the speed and sometimes uncontrollable amount of thinking we do(that wasn't meant to insult, sorry if it did).
Honestly speaking though, this amount of thinking is not something I can turn off even when I've tried to do it. So I defend it and say it's an advantage, because I'd hate to look at it as a curse.
nanook
a scream in a vortex
i was pretty bothered by my mind a couple of years ago. being bothered isn't nescesarily as much about the speed, as it's about consciousness being limited to the racing mind. i still think a lot or fast i guess, but have a calm space around it. distance.
at the time i tried to find my tempo. to sync the speeds of my various sections of experience. much like hemi-sync brainwave entrainment or practicing percussion music tries to synchronize brainhalfes. i don't know about the brain. i know that my internal sections are the body (things like pulse, tiredness, speed of breath), emotions, thoughts. i sort of did walking meditation. i tried to move my body in a speed that felt right, which was often extremely slow. 90 year old person slow. but sometimes i had to move fast and catch up with something else. i would walk around the block with exact constant speed, once i had found the speed that felt right, and achieve a blissfull stability by doing so. i would watch my whole body and the speed of my mind at the same time. maybe increase the tempo when angry or enthusiastic emotions came up, decrease it for sad emotions (i am not emotional. i am pretty schizoid. but every other thought has some verry subtle emotional quality or implication. a cop passes you by, checking you out, you look away? fear. anger. think about mother? sad. give enough awareness to it.). stand still while feeling confused about something unconscious, like when you stumble upon a big question mark. not move untill i feel like i am good. i can't describe the whole mechanism, but i often achieved synchronization by just paying attention to all of those sections. and when the circuits are synchronized, then a holistic space can become conscious which surrounds all of them, not just the most important one, the mind. so you are not limited to the mind and whatever speed that may have. the mind is allways fast, but it can relate to the rest via some kind of octave or something like that. the phase was some step in my development or something. i basically stopped discociating the body for the sake of the mind and integrated or transcended both, as a result of this. the episode lasted for maybe up to 3 years. never have felt bothered by my mind since that. unless i am intoxicated by chemicals, allergy, oxidation, blood sugar. i still have a habit of moving in my felt tempo. i often stop and look at something, when a part of me gets curious, even if that seems silly because there is nothing special to see. or close my eyes, to have more focus on something internal, and stop so i don't run into anyone.
at the time i tried to find my tempo. to sync the speeds of my various sections of experience. much like hemi-sync brainwave entrainment or practicing percussion music tries to synchronize brainhalfes. i don't know about the brain. i know that my internal sections are the body (things like pulse, tiredness, speed of breath), emotions, thoughts. i sort of did walking meditation. i tried to move my body in a speed that felt right, which was often extremely slow. 90 year old person slow. but sometimes i had to move fast and catch up with something else. i would walk around the block with exact constant speed, once i had found the speed that felt right, and achieve a blissfull stability by doing so. i would watch my whole body and the speed of my mind at the same time. maybe increase the tempo when angry or enthusiastic emotions came up, decrease it for sad emotions (i am not emotional. i am pretty schizoid. but every other thought has some verry subtle emotional quality or implication. a cop passes you by, checking you out, you look away? fear. anger. think about mother? sad. give enough awareness to it.). stand still while feeling confused about something unconscious, like when you stumble upon a big question mark. not move untill i feel like i am good. i can't describe the whole mechanism, but i often achieved synchronization by just paying attention to all of those sections. and when the circuits are synchronized, then a holistic space can become conscious which surrounds all of them, not just the most important one, the mind. so you are not limited to the mind and whatever speed that may have. the mind is allways fast, but it can relate to the rest via some kind of octave or something like that. the phase was some step in my development or something. i basically stopped discociating the body for the sake of the mind and integrated or transcended both, as a result of this. the episode lasted for maybe up to 3 years. never have felt bothered by my mind since that. unless i am intoxicated by chemicals, allergy, oxidation, blood sugar. i still have a habit of moving in my felt tempo. i often stop and look at something, when a part of me gets curious, even if that seems silly because there is nothing special to see. or close my eyes, to have more focus on something internal, and stop so i don't run into anyone.
Edumacated
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I medicate with a game called 'drop7'. Less expensive, dangerous than cocaine. Just as addictive. 