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zhenka11230
I have what Eastern philosophers might call Monkey Mind but unlike most of them i do not regard it as negative.

I cannot seem to stick to one idea or even subject. Not only do i jump from science to science but also from science to art. I take a book, start reading then suddenly i get an urge to take artistic photographs or learn to draw or to play a music instrument! I might be reading book by Freud and then suddenly decide to read Carl Jung. My mind is complete chaos of perspectives and i love it!. My room is filled with books that are only 10 to 100 pages in but never finished. There are like 15 unfinished books laying next to my bed.

I walk by a tree outside and the amount of perspectives i can take to look at it fascinates me. I can look at it biologically, evolutionary, functionally, philosophically ( the tree does not care about meaning of life or its quality of life for example), artistically(colors and stuff), poetically, theologically and infinity others(if you include subcategories). I might for example think of how to paint it or which time of the day would be the best to take photo of it, i might judge its value in money, its use value to create something like a chair or paper. I might think about how old it is. Infinity of perspectives counting those that are not yet discovered.

I love life! I am filled with desire for knowledge and enthusiasm! although on the down side it seems like my curiosity far outweighs any other desire i have(like sex) which relatively speaking is not bad. I seem to have entered a new way of being in the world. A new consciousness full of creative force and curiosity.

It is very hard for me to pick a career as i am generally interested in about everything but on the other side i passionately hate manual labor. Doing it just makes me go out of my skin(that is the jobs i am limited to take for now as a student).

Anyone else feels similar way?

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Sounds like you suffer from "Kaleidoscopic Focus Syndrome". If I understand you correctly, you see the world like the alien from the movie "Predator" that can switch between different stages of the light spectrum to see the world around him? Nice problem to have! But I think that, for right now and untill further notice: Don't try any artificial consciousness expander, please. I'm afraid we might lose you forever! Stick to Flex's tea or something mild like that for right now. :-;
I have an issue with my focus kind of similar to yours. But mine is related more to ADD, which was never offically diagnosed but has caused me a lot of comunication problems, especially with the female gender. And it got worse during my teens and tweenties during my cannabis phase. So ridiculous that one of my girl-friends at the time's favorite pot-shot question was: "What we were just talking about?"
So, my multi-facetic focus, unlike yours, has caused me more sadness than joy. I start books and projects that I don't always finish and simply lose focus easily. I think I have a problem, whereas you have a gift.
zhenka11230
QUOTE(code buttons @ Nov 20, 2007, 09:45 PM) *

Sounds like you suffer from "Kaleidoscopic Focus Syndrome". If I understand you correctly, you see the world like the alien from the movie "Predator" that can switch between different stages of the light spectrum to see the world around him? Nice problem to have! But I think that, for right now and untill further notice: Don't try any artificial consciousness expander, please. I'm afraid we might lose you forever! Stick to Flex's tea or something mild like that for right now. :-;
I have an issue with my focus kind of similar to yours. But mine is related more to ADD, which was never offically diagnosed but has caused me a lot of comunication problems, especially with the female gender. And it got worse during my teens and tweenties during my cannabis phase. So ridiculous that one of my girl-friends at the time's favorite pot-shot question was: "What we were just talking about?"
So, my multi-facetic focus, unlike yours, has caused me more sadness than joy. I start books and projects that I don't always finish and simply lose focus easily. I think I have a problem, whereas you have a gift.

Hmm i see your source of worry but i don't think i have ADD. I can focus if i wish, most of my jumping happens volunterly or at least so i think. It had not interfered with my homework for example if i needed to do it. It is not that i loose focus but rather gain new desire for knowledge rather quickly. I think it is more of side effect of my age as i am 19 and it is the time to develop philosophical understanding of the world.
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