that mel gibson film | ADHD Information

yeah, yeah hardly vital but i have a question...

somebody tell me - i know this isn't the most obvious place to ask this
question....

but i have no idea whether other people do not constantly have a voice or
thoughts going on in their head. i have always presumed that nobody's
head is silent unless they have made a supreme effort at meditation like
being a monk and then only at those times when they are meditating.

i thought that mel gibson - what women want - film just glossed over the
fact that he would be hearing a constant non-stop babble every time he
was with another person because it would have made the film impossible.
i never, not for one second, did it cross my mind that there are people
out there who do not have constant thoughts running through their head.

so - are there?

are there people who do not have constant thoughts running through
their head. if so, what happens in the gap? is it just nothing? is that
possible (to me that is like trying to imagine infinity just doesn't compute
too well). are there really people who do have nothing.....??????

or was it just for the sake of the film. as i always supposed it was.

was just curious - nothing vital. thanksArtistic licence. But I have on very very very rare occations had very little going on in my mind. I wonder if other people feel like that most of the time. When my thoughts are running real fast I long for that peace, but when it has happened (about twice) it was increadibily boring. I think we have so many thoughts to entertain us.

One theroy is that maybe he couldn't hear all the thoughts but maybe more prominat ones or somthing?

No one wouldn't have self talk going on, or random thoughts even if they wernt in focus if you get what I mean.

There was a eposode of buffy where she could hear peoples thoughts, it was way more realistic, she was hearing millions of thoughts that were driving her crazy.
yeah, really? can you remember it? i wonder whether my neice will grow
out of it entirely too. certainly she does it a lot less now - but i wondered
whether she just became aware people didn't like it too much....

she's pretty cool all round and good fun to be with too, great company.


i bet it spooked your parents just the same. it is SO disconcerting. how
cool though - that you could do it then. do you feel in any way psychic/
mind readery now at all?Buddhists call it the monkey mind that constantly babbles. Attaining silence mentally/spiritually is the goal of meditation. There are many methods to achieve this state, sustainable methods generally take a little time to achieve.


chjones, my parents said I grew up doing the same thing as your neice.

With regards to 'noise', those systems that have used brain impulses ('telepathy') as a control mechanism (and there are several out there, including some highly complex military applications) generally require specialized training in meditative techniques to dampen the majority of mental noise that occurs in the average mind - some of the systems also were programmed to recognize 'noise' and squelch it. The two mechanisms together allowed for some complex instructions to be interpreted correctly by the system when mentally controlled by the subject.
oh phew!

thought it was gonna be one of those obvious things - like yeahhh didn't
you know that only adhd people are talking in their head all the time,
sheesh....

anyway - my neice (who's only five can read minds) it's kinda spooky
actually. you'll be thinking something in your head and she'll ask you
straight out.

sometimes something mundane like - oh bugger i forgot the milk. and
she'll go 'why did you forget the milk aunty christine?'

and it spooks me every time!

i don't know if she 'hears' or rather sometimes she chooses to listen in -
if she's bored....

sometimes i can feel her in my head (that is the weirdest thing) miles
away in California and i can feel her pop into my head and look through
my eyes. quite peculiar... not bad just peculiar.

i don't know whether she goes into everyone's head (i never asked - the
whole topic kinda remains slightly/deliberately non-mentioned within our
family) but she certainly reads all our minds on occasion and it drives her
mother, and my mother (her grandmother) quite mad sometimes and they
always tell her to stop it. so she does it less and less - which is probably
a good thing come to think of it!

ah well, she's a sweetheart which is the main thing.