Brain jumps

Sometimes it appears to me that my brain makes relatively scary jumps from one place to another. I don’t really mean that I jump to conclusions, but it almost appears as if I don’t even know where some of the ideas that I have come from. If I trace back the links, there comes a point where the jump feels like a bit of a flight. The same way that I was right in between working on something else, I began writing this blog post. No thinking, no story—just my brain had some kind of flip, and bam, I am typing without any kind of resistance now.

Right after this first spark, it goes sort of normal again. I am going quite slowly, but it appears to me that myself and even those around me try to hide these changes in speed. Just as we try to hide, we are different from what those around us expect. What could it mean? Why do we run away when things start to look different? How is it that we fear monotony yet find comfort in it? Just like that, my brain was picking up speed again, and the questions gave momentum to my thoughts like favorable winds. Then, all of a sudden, my ears clicked.

And I take the mouse pointer of my computer back to the other task that I was on. People say that we should always do one task at a time, and only when that is done should we move on to another. I found that that might give you pretty alright results, but it’s kind of slow and it bores you. So try once to scatter your work and move across it like you’re a frog hopping on lily pads in the pond. Even though the path might seem scattered, the direction is correct. It might even give your mind time to make sense of other things when you get stuck.

Maybe this is just what the internet has done to our brains, scattered and taken out of order. But in this scatter is where the more clear path sits, right? At least to my eyes, it does. What does it matter—what my eyes see versus what is real? It might look like they are both the same, but they can be different. So, leave those thoughts here and go back to what you left before coming here; maybe you’ll see something new.