Do you think constantly?

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By constantly I mean without ceasing, is there no time when there is silence in your head? I'm not asking "do you hear voices" but instead I'm asking "do you constantly have your own thoughts running consciously?". There are always background processes going by necessity, such as dealing with motor control and navigation, however in the foreground of your mind do you have verbal thoughts proceeding without ceasing?

Yes, my mind never stops ... and neither would I ever want it to stop.

Doesn't everybody think constantly? I'm pretty sure that I do. The only time when I'm not thinking is when I'm asleep.

I think everyone does.

One of my brothers claims he can sit and "think about nothing", but I think the question here is more about a never-ending *intensity* of one's thinking.

It never ceases, but I can slow the rate down... make the gaps between 'thoughts' bigger.

Yeah, I think constantly.

Good so i'm not the only one. Makes sleeping hard though.

I do. Meditation brings that under control. Coffee makes it go out of control.

I would often like to take a vacation from thinking constantly (a conscious vacation, not just sleep) but that doesn't seem possible. But meditation does help quiet it down.

My ideal would be to be able to turn it up or down like a dial.

I wish I could sometimes ever experience the world like anbuend (a poster who posts in the General Forum ) who can experience sensation without abstract thought to mediate it. I can't. I wish I could.

Yep. meditation and daydreaming help lots.

except when going to sleep. Where's the damn OFF button for this thing? ><

Constantly, relentlessly, grindingly, analysing.
Unless I sit down and really listen to music - then I just 'exist within the music' and observe it moving around me with nothing but the odd observation here and there on the structure of it.

My mind seems particularly unruly at bed time. And if meditate in bed, that keeps me up, because I'm meditating, not falling asleep.

aye, fudo does.. would like an occasional 'mental silence' , or just one.. but then he's never heard silence anyway :/

YES!!

Um... yes? Everyone does?

Yes, sometimes when I am dwelling on something negative I will go exercise hard to where I am breathing so heavily that thinking is next to impossible. I think I think too much to the point where I am worried that I am not living as much thinking about living.