Hello JMG and All! I would like to offer my best wishes to any who may read this.
My question concerns the way that thoughts occur, namely, that at times I have multiple thoughts that coincide each other in time. For example, when I was younger I fell into the habit of counting to fall asleep--most times I would count to 4 repeatedly. I came to notice rather quickly that while counting to 4 in my head I would have other thoughts appear alongside the counting of numbers. 1..2...3..4 repeatedly with other thoughts spread out on top of the repeating beat. The thoughts would be my own, some kind of tangential reflection upon the day or your run of the mill wondering. As I got older and still habitually continued the practice, sometimes counting would lead into more or less lucid dream states, some of which reflected the thoughts that coincided with the counting.
My first question is if there is anything in occult literature that mentions any such practice. My second question is if you think there would be any possible deficit or problem (or benefit) arising from the habit of having "split" thoughts such as these.
It does not always occur only with counting and words such as I have described before I sleep. At times in meditation I have found that multiple strings of word thoughts arise simultaneously and I have to work harder to focus. I have found that raising what I might call the amplitude, or force, behind the willed thought I choose to enforce more or less reduces the other thoughts and allows me to focus.
This has been a curiosity of myself (which funnily enough sometimes I think about in the aforementioned time before sleep) that I thought I might ask you about.
Thank you as always for your time and consideration,
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On thought processes
Date: 2023-02-28 12:07 am (UTC)My question concerns the way that thoughts occur, namely, that at times I have multiple thoughts that coincide each other in time. For example, when I was younger I fell into the habit of counting to fall asleep--most times I would count to 4 repeatedly. I came to notice rather quickly that while counting to 4 in my head I would have other thoughts appear alongside the counting of numbers. 1..2...3..4 repeatedly with other thoughts spread out on top of the repeating beat. The thoughts would be my own, some kind of tangential reflection upon the day or your run of the mill wondering. As I got older and still habitually continued the practice, sometimes counting would lead into more or less lucid dream states, some of which reflected the thoughts that coincided with the counting.
My first question is if there is anything in occult literature that mentions any such practice. My second question is if you think there would be any possible deficit or problem (or benefit) arising from the habit of having "split" thoughts such as these.
It does not always occur only with counting and words such as I have described before I sleep. At times in meditation I have found that multiple strings of word thoughts arise simultaneously and I have to work harder to focus. I have found that raising what I might call the amplitude, or force, behind the willed thought I choose to enforce more or less reduces the other thoughts and allows me to focus.
This has been a curiosity of myself (which funnily enough sometimes I think about in the aforementioned time before sleep) that I thought I might ask you about.
Thank you as always for your time and consideration,
J.