Staring at something - one thing - for an extended period has the bizarre effect of inducing myriad other thoughts. The mind forces this to happen. It wanders. I guess it does so to ensure we don't lose our minds with the compression and pressure of that amount of blinding focus.
It can unsettle - but mastering it has big rewards.
What's interesting about the phenomena is to consider the puzzle it suggests. To in some way have fathomed how this actually works. Figure it out so that we might ride the wave - always on the hunt for creative inspiration as we train our minds to deliberately flitter around searching a breakthrough answer. Seeking that bigger and better thought.
By being tuned in to being tuned out - and in - yet all over the idea of the conundrum is a mercurial and confounding skill.
People around you - watching and listening would get concerned that you have lost interest in them or their conversation when in fact they have inspired you to go find new mental pay-dirt. You are off in search.
Locking into this state of mind is a hard thing to do. It is tough to describe in a way that people can understand or indeed be taught.
In Search Of The Bedouin Mind
Listen to what your eyes are telling you. Look for the stuff that they aren't. In your head turn the scene around through as many dimensions as you can. Pull the scene apart. Juxtapose the ordinary items and let the narrative in your head go wild. Throw stuff into the scene. Play with the words and related suggestions that enter your consciousness. You won't know where they came from. Imagine you are seeing what you see now for the first time – afresh.
Imagine you have stumbled across this arrangement and you weren't supposed to - it has shocked you.
This is a recognized state of creativity that flies in and out within a nano-second. The cheating comedian that occupies the brain laughs at our poor performance. This gymnastics will tire you out but it's the life of the bedouin mind and you have to learn to follow its tracks.
Pay attention to its dance. It's disturbing and heightens your flow of adrenaline. You feel on edge. Bits are flying past your mind, your eyes and that inner voice is abusing you for fun. You feel a fraud, a traitor and a killer celebrity all at the same time. The thrill of it is unlike anything else.
You have had an idea.
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