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zer0netgain
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17 Nov 2009, 10:25 am

Describe how the inside of your brain works. I'm asking because I wonder if it's just me.

Example (using myself):

I see a beautiful merry go round. Lights, sound, the works. It begins to spin, but it goes faster and faster and faster. The lights speed up, the sound plays faster, soon there is smoke pouring out of the mechanism as it goes insanely fast with people holding on for dear life. Soon bodies and parts are flying off the merry go round because of how fast it's spinning but nothing slows it down.

Anyone else feel that way?



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17 Nov 2009, 1:27 pm

I compare my brain to an engine that floods (that dates me I know) or cuts off when it idles too long.


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17 Nov 2009, 1:36 pm

I have compared mine to a computer screen when you hold down the enter key.



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17 Nov 2009, 1:49 pm

zer0netgain wrote:
Example (using myself):

I see a beautiful merry go round. Lights, sound, the works. It begins to spin, but it goes faster and faster and faster. The lights speed up, the sound plays faster, soon there is smoke pouring out of the mechanism as it goes insanely fast with people holding on for dear life. Soon bodies and parts are flying off the merry go round because of how fast it's spinning but nothing slows it down.

Anyone else feel that way?

It sounds like a Bradbury's story!

If I think of mine, I only have a very biological view of it.

... But as a kind of pinball otherwise!



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17 Nov 2009, 2:15 pm

I see my mind as two figures. The figures change constantly depending on the situation, but there's statically always two of them. In a rational discussion, there's Vyn and Myrryr. Debating both sides of the argument. Quantity vs quality (if I'm ordering food or something like that) politics, science, things like that.

In any personal conflict there's Intellect vs Emotion. Intellect being a tall humanoid looking like the silver surfer and Emotion being a guy that matches what you would imagine the body to go with my avatar, and about 2 feet shorter than Intellect. Despite being in continual conflict, Intellect wins the vast majority of time, it's essentially only Fear that it cannot control. Has no trouble shutting down any other part of Emotion.


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