I've never once in my waking life been without thought. I've always assumed it's impossible to actually be clear of thought. I've meditated and can hold a thought if need be, but never can I outright clear them away.
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
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Wait, are you actually supposed to be able to just stop thinking?
Some people do apparently. Me I’m like OP its a constant stream of thought. Evening as typing this I’m actively reading the words.
My wife has this too, but with things she needs to do. Sounds pretty great, honestly since she rarely forgets anything important.
I on the other hand have a constant and unending stream of music, and I don't have any control of the song. It's less helpful.
Have you tried drowning out every thought with extremely loud music? /s (don't do this tinnitus sucks and it's permanent)
Jokes on you, I was practically born with tinnitus and didn't know it wasn't normal until my mid-20's so child me normalized the fuck out of it!
Also, no thoughts head empty is only attained by the brain shutting off because its too tired to keep up any threads, but forgets to close the eyes/get ready to be off (aka go to bed).
Same, feels bad man.
Techno does this for me (but not no thoughts it just drowns out thoughts about things I’m not focussing on)
Thank you Giorgio Moroder for discovering the click track and adding a beat to each click to help future genres of music to drown out any thoughts. unce-unce-unce-unce-unce-etc
"But my friends call me ....Giorgio"
It's why I used to smoke weed until the panic attacks forced me to stop...
I just want to shut my brain off and I can't.
I can sometimes get down to only one level of thought, but generally I have multiple tracks of thoughts going at once. It's probably why I'm primarily inattentive lol.
too much stimulation inside my brain, gotta shut down now
It takes immense practice, and I've found focusing on quiet music helps. It also helps if you like to practice Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming. You just ease into any thoughts that might come across.
The way I learned meditation is you're not going to be rid of every single thought, so instead focus on sounds, focus on your breathin, be nice to yourself if a thougt does occur, and then try to focus back onto nothingness/w.e works for you.
30 minutes a day has really helped me feel more in control, when I can remember atleast.
The last point should say "... and stop halfway, because I don't feel like it anymore".
Or "... but get stuck halfway because I found something interesting in one of the drawers."
In my case: stop halfway because you opened a drawer and found it needed fixing, and that is how I bought a metal lathe and didn’t clean the house for 3 months as I learned to turn my own knobs…. Then didn’t touch it for a year.
Just toss it into that huge pile of ex-hobbies.
What, cleaning?
Your sudden but short-lived lathe-ing adventure.
This „dependencies until you feel overwhelmed „ hits a bit too close to home.
been gonna finish the cargo mod on my trailer for nearly a year. got all the parts. been gonna install the switch box for my generator to power the house for longer. been " in progress" of building the 8x8 storage shed in the back corner of my lot since january. built a 2x3x4 expanded metal cart to burn scrap brush in since last november. got a twin trunk tree half cut up for that.
I read this list in a completely random order starting in the middle. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Forget zodiac signs, which point did you start reading at?
No eat, only hyperfocus. While I was eating some toast.
rainbow hungry. It was eyecatching and very relatable. Although i wouldn't call it hunger, just 'I am bored and must eat'
I think they forgot "drop everything to make an intricately colored and formatted list"
Another wacky meme that describes 70% of my kid's personality in one go, thanks
I live to serve and awaken
Yeah nah we've known for about four years now. Just trying to get him whatever help is available.
I would like a wake up call at 9:30 and breakfast at 10 please.
best I can do is 4am when i randomly think about it or never
I wish I can talk endlessly like that. Sometimes it feels as if I am nonverbal..
If the conversation turns toward something I am interested in (or rather, what my brain is), I can blab until I feel self-conscious about talking too much. But I have pretty limited interests, so I am also mostly non-verbal.
Super hard to make relationships because I don't especially find people to be interesting, even if they often do interesting things. I want to care about shit like how someone's day was, but I just... Don't. Even if their thoughts and feelings matter to me. :/
Thin line between seeing yourself and catharsis, and hating one's self
The first two are why it's not a lie when I am asked what I am thinking and I respond with "nothing."
It really is nothing, or is so many things at once the only reasonable response is also "nothing," as I am not really thinking about anything at all, there's just a tornado of thoughts spinning around not being thought of.
Does the last one result in giving up after less than an hour for most people too?
So let’s say I check all those boxes; what then?
Congrats, you've won at ADHD.
Forgot about: No drink…only hyperfocus
Hey you, reading this, drink some goddam water.
yep