• @Bobmighty@lemmy.world
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    512 months ago

    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.

    • atocci
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      122 months ago

      Wait, are you actually supposed to be able to just stop thinking?

        • Ham Strokers Ejacula
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          22 months ago

          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.

    • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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      72 months ago

      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.

    • @Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      Have you tried drowning out every thought with extremely loud music? /s (don’t do this tinnitus sucks and it’s permanent)

      • DarkSirrush
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        112 months ago

        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).

    • Zoot
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      32 months ago

      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.

    • @FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee
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      32 months ago

      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

  • Farid
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    432 months ago

    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.”

    • @Chuymatt@beehaw.org
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      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.

    • @Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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      32 months ago

      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.

  • Blackout
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    302 months ago

    I read this list in a completely random order starting in the middle. ¯\(ツ)

  • pruwyben
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    212 months ago

    I think they forgot “drop everything to make an intricately colored and formatted list”

  • The Snark Urge
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    162 months ago

    Another wacky meme that describes 70% of my kid’s personality in one go, thanks

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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      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. :/

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    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.