Anyone ever fascinated by what your mind auto-fills to when you’re trying to force yourself to think?
There are two flavors I get of this that I find fascinating.
One: you are trying really hard to think of something, anything, so your mind forces something…And then it gets stuck there for a bit. So far the loops I get stuck in is "Penguins" "Dragons" "Food" "fantasy memes" "crows" "Folk tales and mythology" "colors" "hands: why are mine weird, everyone's hands are weird" "and paranoia stories"
It's interesting, because sometimes they aren’t even cohesive, it's just a blur of random facts, images, and or the word of the topic itself. Nothing to save me from looping myself in on that, until the word doesn’t even sound like a word in my mind. Eventually I chill out and just allow my thoughts to flow normally. Hyper focusing on my environment is another way to snap out of it really quickly, but it's strange. Penguins aren't even my favorite animal anymore, but I really liked them as a kid, to they remain there as a hold over from my childhood.
The other flavor of this is try to hold sill in silence and stare at nothing, or close your eyes. That one gets really interesting. Yes, this is sort of meditation, (Just seeing what comes up, chasing none of the thoughts, and just returning to focusing on your body) but it's really interesting seeing whatever comes up. For me it's usually a smattering of whatever I had been worrying about lately, and past scars.
Upside, it helps you relax, trains you to worry about your problems less, and it can help you actually figure out whatever is going on with you. I've found a lot of solutions to my problems weren't so bad when I meditated, and I could solve them more easily afterwards.
I would highly recommend anyone to try observing what your mind does for either of these things. Write them down! I didn't realize how many times crows and ravens came up as a topic for me until I wrote this! Go try it! It can also help with your art, because it can help you realize where a lot of your inspiration comes from, and why you make the things you do. It's fascinating.
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