The Way My Mind Works

My mind always seems to come alive at night. I can go all day long without much thought, but not at night.  When the sun goes down my mind starts winding up.  I suddenly start having visions of different ideas, concepts, and questions.  At any given point at night, my mind might be going over hundreds of thoughts.  Most of the time I can’t even make out my own thoughts because of all the mess.

I used to have a ton of trouble with this.  I couldn’t focus on a single task for more then a few minutes before I got bored with it.  I could be working on a volcano project for school and then find myself thinking about how fast the world is spinning or something else completely off topic.  Over the years, I have been able to string together what I call thought-paths. I have been able to discipline my mind into thinking about what I want it to, for the most part anyways.  Or rather, thinking about things in a more organized manner.  I have been able to link the transitions my mind goes through pretty effectively.

For example: I could be playing with the household dog and come across a “sticker” in her fur from the plants in the yard. I would start thinking about how she picked it up, probably playing in the yard.  I then start trying to remember why I don’t remember seeing her play in that area of the yard that day.  This leads me to start thinking about what I was doing around that time. I remember about that time I was looking up information on the computer.  This lead me to think about my blog and things I needed to do, such as make a new post.  I start thinking about the universe and people, when I think about black holes.  When I think about black holes, it reminded me of the post I had made about some of my questions, thus reminding me that I should link whatever post I make about black holes to that post.  Thinking about links made me think about link exchanges, and thus made me think of dmoz, and dmoz makes me think about google (google owns /operates dmoz).  Thinking about google leads me to go over to my computer and check the adsense account to see if I made any money from my blog.  In this example, I went from a sticker in the dogs fur to checking the adsense account in under a second.  It’s kind of mind numbing isn’t it?

I have this happen thousands of times a day. This is the main reason I have such a strong sense of logic. I have been able to actually see a fraction of how my own mind works.  Since I believe that the human mind is driving by logic, I can apply the fraction I have learned from my own mind to everything else.  I can work things backwards well, and solve any problem I come across.

I also think that this is the reason I get bored with everyday tasks.  They get to be so repetitive that I lose interest, and thus have a problem with motivation.  I also think that this is the reason for my procrastination.  If I wait until the last minute to do something, it is exciting to me to figure out how to get everything done in a short amount of time.

I think that with the proper method of thought, any person could figure out any question.  The mind has to be completely open to the random thoughts our minds have to solve most major problems.  This is why most “main-stream” idealists haven’t produced many new ideas.  They have improved upon thousands, but they are not created anything actually new. For instance, the upcoming energy crisis in the United States.  There are thousands upon thousands of ways to create cheap, abundant energy.  The problem is that these “main-streamers” do not look at all the options with an open mind. They simply look at the same few time and time again.  Using dams on rivers to produce electricity with turbines and pressure of the water, burning some kind of fuel, wind power, and solar power.  All of these work to a degree.  Dams flood a lot of area to make a lake big enough to produce the right pressure, burning creates tons of smoke, and depletes oxygen supplies, the other two do not affect the environment directly.  I have had an idea that I have been tinkering with for quite some time.  It is a magnetic-driven motor that does not require any kind of outside fuel source to run.  This will be able to produce all the power we could ever need by the time I am finished with it.  I hope to be done with it by the end of the year.  I was working on it for several weeks daily, but have been so busy working and preparing for our wedding and move that I have not had any extra time to fiddle with it.  The idea works in my mind and when I figure out how to manifest that idea correctly, I will have it completed.  Which brings me back to my mind…

Just like that in this post, my mind started rambling about something seemingly irrelevant.  If you look closely in this post you will be able to see the path my mind took.

Another part of my mind that seems to be a gift and a curse is my ability to visualize anything I think about.  Every time I look at something I can see its internal structure working in my mind.  For instance: when I put the key to my truck in the ignition and turn it, I see the electricity flow through the ignition assembly, down to the starter solenoid, from the solenoid to the starter, thus causing the starter gear to slide out and rotate, thus turning the engine over as the fuel system start to inject the gas and the valves start working and the first cylinder fires… I can see all this happening in my mind from one small little action.  This happens with anything mechanical or electrically driven.  Extremely vivid and accurately, these visions in my mind are not limited to anything.

Here recently, I have been able to apply this ability with my sense of logic on several different topics.  With these two abilities becoming stronger every day, all it will take is one more ability and I will be able to think my way through anything (or so I believe). I believe in “trinities,” or sets of three.  Three sides to a coin, three points of the triangle, etc. I am using all the questions in my Have Questions? So Do I.. post to work on strengthening these abilities and trying to find the third side to my coin.

I think that I covered most of this, hope you enjoyed the strange glimpse of the way my mind works…

It sure seems stranger every day… But it just might keep you entertained!