Or in my case frames per millisecond...

Am I the only one out there that thinks this way?

My mind is always on overdrive plotting planning and absorbing everyone else's feelings and emotions.

I can't explain what I feel and think!

Even my dreams are full of reality and color just as my daydreaming is when I'm awake!

My mind never shuts up.

A.D.D.?

I fit the profile for creativity and thinking outside the box!

Yet I have no trouble focusing!

So where do I fit in?

Huh? 

I guess I'm more frames per minute or frames per hour.

- Kate

yup, I got a fast-as-heck head as well. Sometimes to the point where I feel like I'm trying to catch the tail end of my thoughts as they whiz by.
Meditation helps.

Or acknowledging it as it goes by, but only analyzing it as necessary. . .Filtering out the "white noise."

Works for me, anyway. 

Maybe you have an unusually high IQ. It may be normal for you to think in overdrive.

Quote from: Genevieve Swann on May 18, 2009, 02:31:36 AM
Maybe you have an unusually high IQ. It may be normal for you to think in overdrive.

Having an unusually high IQ does you no favors in relating to the general populous. Unless it is a life or death situation, you are better to move on with what you are doing and offer help on a necessary basis. If even that. More often a sense of humor works just as well

24 at a time, everybody. 24 at a time.


/filmmaker

At any moment of time you can only focus on a very small area. You mind moves your eyes to scan and then it assembles the picture. Detail can only be noticed by spending a lot of time and focusing on the subject, other wise you miss the best parts.

Quote from: scarboroughfair on May 16, 2009, 06:39:00 AM
Or in my case frames per millisecond...

Am I the only one out there that thinks this way?

My mind is always on overdrive plotting planning and absorbing everyone else's feelings and emotions.

I can't explain what I feel and think!

Even my dreams are full of reality and color just as my daydreaming is when I'm awake!

My mind never shuts up.

A.D.D.?

I fit the profile for creativity and thinking outside the box!

Yet I have no trouble focusing!

So where do I fit in?

You fit in where I fit it.... thousand of thoughts per minute many overlapping. This is normal and there are many people just like you and I am one of them. So, stop worring where you fit in; because you will fall into place without being forced. It just takes time.

My mind often tends to process and run in overdrive. Sometimes thats a good thing. I find that when driving while looking for someplace Ive not been before, I can easily absorb all of the incoming information. Also as an engineer, it helps to work out designs, details and disagnosis...

...but its also a curse, I find that with real life crap I tend to overanalyze. Some say thats the curse of being a Libra, but I suspect I would be this way no matter when I entered this world.

Good thing is though, if I am totally relaxed or exhasuted, it slows down.... maybe. I think thats cyclical too... at times I dont sleep well if at all, other times even after 12 hours I cant drag myself out of bed.

My mind is a frames per second kind of mined. Prior to starting transition it NEVER shut down. It drove people around me crazy. The people I worked with felt they could never keep up with me because I was thinking so much further ahead and the same with my partner. Fast forward to the other day (stater hormones 2 months ago) I was driving down the street and noticed I was not thinking about anything I me nothing just resting it was crazy, the first time I can remember that happening ever.
Myles

I'm a programmer and we call this kind of mental activity being "in the zone". I've been there many times, your mind is firing off thousands of thoughts and ideas every minute, and you are really cranking out the work.

It usually takes 20-30 minutes to get into the zone and 1 second to be jarred out of it by a ringing phone or a pesky co-worker. That's why the headphones are usually on, both to help set a background noise that facilitates getting into the zone and to make you (the co-worker) go away 

I could not imagine having that kind of mental activity 24x7. It actually makes you physically tired.

Quote from: riven_one on May 20, 2009, 11:58:31 AM
I could not imagine having that kind of mental activity 24x7. It actually makes you physically tired.

And therein lies the irony... it exhausts you, but you get no sleep... 

frames per second is strictly linear. My brain works holographically so all the frames at once lol