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MathewS

MathewS

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I was reading a thread on another site, and it got me thinking about this.

Does anybody here think of nothing?
What I am trying to figure out is if im just 'empty' because my now ex girlfriend always used to ask me "What are you thinking?"
and I am not usually the 'thinking' type, so my usual reply was always "Nothing" and she would always reply with
"How can you think of nothing? You must be thinking of something?"

and it was/is true, that I do think 'nothing' a lot of the time.

Anyway can anybody here just think of 'nothing' or am I just a boring tard? As far as I know I have always been like this, even at primary school I would just sit, stare and think of absoluty nothing, just like I was an empty vessel just passing time.

Any thoughts...?
 
Yeah, I think I'm going to go with boring tard :)

Only kidding, if you can zone out and think of nothing then you can manage something a lot of people can't :)
 
Your brain will always be thinking of something...whether it's regulating your heartrate, or thinking about that bit of hot stuff you saw strutting their stuff this morning.

IMO, it's impossible to stop thinking - unless your brain is dead.
 
by 'nothing' I mean that I just zone out, like I have just left my body and I am drifiting around.

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Your brain will always be thinking of something...whether it's regulating your heartrate, or thinking about that bit of hot stuff you saw strutting their stuff this morning.
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Well obviously, but I dont mean the stuff that the body does naturally
 
it depends, if your sitting there quietly chances are you are thinking of something, however, if they ask you when your doing something then usually your entire focus is on that thing so you wouldnt really be thinking anything.

Most people either think or do.
 
Gilly said:
Or both
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yes but my point is that when i am doing, im aware that my brain must be thinking but im not conscious of it.

If its quiet, then i will be thinking to myself, as though im having a conversation with myself in my head. But if im really concentrating on a game its as though my brain goes into autopilot. I dont know how to put it, its really hard to explain.
 
MNuTz said:
it depends, if your sitting there quietly chances are you are thinking of something, however, if they ask you when your doing something then usually your entire focus is on that thing so you wouldnt really be thinking anything.

Most people either think or do.
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But it sometimes feels like im not consious, and that I havnt done/thought of anything and an hour or more has passed.
 
i do that, sit in class usually english, then sit there, zone on to the floor usually.. then around 20 mins later, i zone out and am like "!! ive jst missed most of the lesson and i havnt done any work" and its really weird
 
Sometimes when I'm just daydreaming on the bus or whatever, I wont be able to remember what I was thinking about afterwards. I'll have been sat there for 20 minutes thinking, but my brain sort of blanks it out when I see my stop approaching.

Most of the time I know what I'm thinking about, though. Maybe I'll zone out when I'm tired, or watching daytime tv :P
 
MNuTz said:
yes but my point is that when i am doing, im aware that my brain must be thinking but im not conscious of it.

If its quiet, then i will be thinking to myself, as though im having a conversation with myself in my head. But if im really concentrating on a game its as though my brain goes into autopilot. I dont know how to put it, its really hard to explain.
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Heh im the same dude, and i card explain how to put it either lol, and when someone interrupts takes a second lol damn blank face :p
 
Callousness said:
why do gfs always ask you "what are you thinking?" when your just sitting minding your own business.
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My girlfriend thinks any second not talking is an auqard silence, can be a bit annoying sometimes. :p

If its quiet, then i will be thinking to myself, as though im having a conversation with myself in my head. But if im really concentrating on a game its as though my brain goes into autopilot. I dont know how to put it, its really hard to explain.
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I think i know what you mean, say playing a car racing game, you getto the end of the track and suddenly think "how did i get here?" as you didn't seem to be concentrating and cant really remember what you did for the last few minutes.

Some of my best gaming is when that happens, your brain just acts instinctivly, your in "the zone". :p
 
basmic said:
Your brain will always be thinking of something...whether it's regulating your heartrate, or thinking about that bit of hot stuff you saw strutting their stuff this morning.

IMO, it's impossible to stop thinking - unless your brain is dead.
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i think he means the stuff you're conscious about. you hardly 'think' your heart to keep going, and it actually takes considerable effort to prevent your breathing let alone remember it's happening.

maybe we actually sit on a level where most of the stuff we think we make decisions about are actually on a lower level in the brain, stuff we're not actually aware of. and that doesn't just go for bodily function, there are many decisions every day we think we make for ourselves that are actually delegated.

i've read that nearly all the decisions are actually done unconsciously but the mind tricks us into thinking we made those decisions. the idea was monitor everything you do for a minute or so, scrutinise the movements you make, the places you look, the thoughts you have. did you actually, really, want to do those things. the argument is that most functions are automated and the brain wraps it all in this 'sense' of consciousness, gives us a feeling we are in complete control.

i'm no neuroscientist so i don't know how credible that is but i found it fascinating (and scary!).

anyway, bit more on topic. you're quite entitled to think of 'nothing' mate, you're from Grimsby afterall. oh... ugh so am i :eek:
 
Hehe girls can be so annoying when they ask that, no doubt expecting the answer "just how much i love you sweet-cheeks" and tend to get a bit miffed when you deliver the 'nothing' answer and instead jump to conclusions that you must be thinking about that hot blonde you passed in the street three weeks ago while with her.

To me 'nothing' means that I was thinking about something so mundane that a conversation about it would be utterly worthless and not worth the even miniscule effort required to reach back into your short-term memory and regurgitate it for the girl's consumption.

I do seem to able to 'zone out' - not so much think about nothing but rather get so engaged in my own world of thoughts that time absolutely flies by, a useful technique when travelling into work, waiting to be seen at the doctor or long journeys...to the extent where often I'm so engaged that I'll completely ignore people talking to me and require a swift nudge to get my attention :p
 
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the only thinking i do is having convorsations with myself in my mind but when i play online games that require quick reactions i dont think at all or when im listening to music this blocks my thoughts out completely.

i can block all my thoughts out by listening to other people speaking too.

i hate thinking as ive got a drug phycosis which is very annoying and the half of the brain that i cant control answers back with the complete oposite of what im thinking so i spend all my time listening to music and other people speaking or the tv to block my entire brain out.
 
Interesting, isn't that more or less what you try to achieve meditating; pure nothingness? Can't seem to do it myself anyhow, often have trouble getting to sleep too because my mind is always busy.
 
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