When you concentrate you also ignore stuff.

(we all concentrate, for work, play, reading, studying, school … we practice it in school … people who are good at it are “good workers”…)

But you call it CONCENTRATION instead of IGNORING because the stuff you concentrate on gets easy-to-see but the stuff you ignore sorta fades away (and then you stop thinking about it, and then it disappears).

The stuff you concentrate on is relatively small. A book. An idea. A game. An attractive girl’s butt. A plan for the future. A tv show.

And that stuff getting ignored is relatively HUGE. Like a whole invisible universe there.

It’s spooky when you think of it. Like a little bit of DIY brain surgery that everybody does but nobody talks about. Like we’re all a bunch of Harry Potters casting obliviate upon ourselves.

And then we forgot that we cast it, because it’s obliviate.

So tell me what you think.

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    9 months ago

    Seems like most people need to get high to think about things like this. Interesting.

    I just ignore the magic conspiracy thing, but the thought itself is interesting.

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      9 months ago

      Yes, not exacly magic or conspiracy

      But my title needed to be comprehensive yet accurate yet bite-sized… compromises were made.

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      8 months ago

      It is kind of surprising how we can come to some truly interesting thoughts/ideas when high. But at the same time can struggle to process simple things going on or have our mind blown by the magic that a microwave seems to be when stoned.