Anyone here have an overactive mind?

Sokar · Post by **Sokar** » 2003-04-29 06:05am

Gandalf wrote:Perhaps there's a link between sci-fi and ADD?

No, I just think the underwear gnomes steal a little bit of my sanity each night...........

jenat-lai · Post by **jenat-lai** » 2003-04-29 06:11am

I'm always thinking, though I can focous very well (and pilot training has helped this even more, actually pilot trainings done alot for me, including boosting self confidence, increase my speaking speed and confidence and volume and understandability in general life made me more aware of my peripheral vision and objects/people within it etc...)

I can play entire symphonies (ie actually 'taste' and 'hear' the auditory sense by just thinking about it, to the point of being able to notate up to 8 parts deep, and actually know which instruments are playing... this ability (and the 'tasting'/'smelling' of musical colour too, which is a form of synesthisia I guess) has managed to prove itself usefull in my Music Course I spent at uni since 2000 doing, I can notate up to about 6 part harmonic structures on only 2 hearings of a 2 minute segment. Once I had about 3 hours to myself, and I 'listened' to the entire first movement of Mahler's 3rd Symphony without any sound, though I could actually experience the full interplay of sounds... Currently parts of Mahler's 2nd Symphony are playing in my head as I type this... don't know why... only started happening when I wrote 'Mahler' the first time there. I can hear the high strings playing the Tremelo, the way it is in the low range, and their sound is very deep, and with alot of the wood texture in it... I can hear the Cellos and the Bass' they are produing a very loud sound which is managing to have a fair bit of reverb, slightly muddying up the sound, and when they have the pauses, the ring of their sound fades very evenly around the space, the sound is like air, with alot of heavyness in the pitch....

Anyway, Often it takes me a whyle to get to sleep. I always think about something... When I'm under stress and have to make a decision about something, I often 'roleplay' the situation in different guises... keeps me up all night

Oh, and I don't even think there is a link between a hyperactive, or very vividly active, mind and ADD, I think if you learn to utilise that hyperactivity to explore the situations usefull to you, It helps to stick to one subject at a time though lol... but the tangenting ability is interesting <g>

Maybe you all should go out and get light aircraft liscences

might learn to be better able to controll it then, focous it, make it be usefull... but if your still in school, then they all just want you to conform there. School is a little Communist Socialist society inside itself. Break out into the 'real world' and then you can put this GIFT of an inquisitive and never empty mind to good use!

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-04-29 12:22pm

I'm ADHD, in case anyone cares.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-04-29 12:26pm

Well I know I'm ADD...

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-04-29 12:41pm

Nope. Occasionally it gets out of control a bit and I can't get to sleep or something, but usually I'm quite capable of controlling it.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-04-29 12:45pm

Gandalf wrote:Perhaps there's a link between sci-fi and ADD?

No, there is a link between sci-fi/fantasy and imagination. Granted, a lot of ADD & ADHD people have great imaginations.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-04-29 12:45pm

Sure...just now getting stuff onto paper.

That's a different story.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-04-29 12:47pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I'm ADHD, in case anyone cares.

You have Tourette's don't you?

That's a legal right to smackdown anyone who really pisses you off an get away with it.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-04-29 12:49pm

No, I do not have Tourette's. I don't randomly bark, spasm, or shout out obcenities. And I'm not autistic, either.

I'll admit that I have some mental problems, but I'm not fucked up.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-04-29 12:50pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:No, I do not have Tourette's. I don't randomly bark, spasm, or shout out obcenities. And I'm not autistic, either.

I'll admit that I have some mental problems, but I'm not fucked up.

Hmm, then who is it that does?

Bah, I'm sure I know someone like that... or maybe I dreamt them up.

Still, we'd need a to see a normal person to judge how much we're all fucked up.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-04-29 12:51pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote: Hmm, then who is it that does?

Bah, I'm sure I know someone like that... or maybe I dreamed them up.

Hell, with that pic in your sig, you could easily hypnotize someone into thinking they have tourettes.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-04-29 12:54pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote: Hmm, then who is it that does?

Bah, I'm sure I know someone like that... or maybe I dreamed them up.
Hell, with that pic in your sig, you could easily hypnotize someone into thinking they have tourettes.

I have often been said to have a fairly fucked up mind by some, I was always regarded as the most likely person at high school to become a mad scientist and try to takeover the world.

And leave my virus alone, it's cute.

*Idea for new plushy toy: Huggable killer diseases.*

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-04-29 12:59pm

I've always got the monologue running in my head. The only thing that turns it off is....oh, wait, we're not supposed to talk about that anymore. [Remember kids, drugs are bad--the government says so!] Anyway, there's only one substance that can turn the monologue off, and it's not alcohol (alcohol just makes it dumber, and sometimes turns it from a mental monologue to a spoken one). Strangely enough, though, I usually don't have much trouble sleeping--call it I've figured out how to think about only boring shit when I want to go to bed, or call it laziness. Most of the time, though, there's stuff running through my brain that has absolutely nothing to do with what's going on around me.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-04-29 01:00pm

I think this is fairly normal for a lot of people. It just can suck when you want to sleep. If I have a really busy day at work, I fall asleep pretty easily. As Ive gotten older, the "busyness" in my mind has slacked off.

My problem is I sometimes move my lips when I am thinking without realizing it. In my mind I might be talking to someone about this or that, and Im moving my lips a little. My friends never noticed this when we were younger, now it drives them nuts. Im making an effort not to do it.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-04-29 01:56pm

Superman wrote:Wow, we are all just text book cases of ADD, aren't we?

Nope, I've been tested for it. I'm able to concentrate on things easily, my brain simply makes great effort to fill all other time.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-04-29 02:26pm

My mind is always going, usually thinking of this universe i have in my head and attempting to tie stories into each other and how i'd draw it. Also usually plannning out buildings, weaponry, ships, sounds and general problems that i need to fix.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2003-04-29 02:59pm

It regularly takes me an hour to get to sleep and sometimes several hours because I simply cannot shut my mind off. I'm not complaining though, I get some cool dreams!

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-04-29 03:07pm

Pity there isn't a machine to record our thoughts, I could show you some damn good films I thought up in spare time or during sleep.

Getting it on paper is the hard part.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-04-29 03:09pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Pity there isn't a machine to record our thoughts, I could show you some damn good films I thought up in spare time or during sleep.

Getting it on paper is the hard part.

Ahhhhhh!!!!!! *suddenly has the video for Tongue Tied going through her head*