Hyper Focus "God Mode"

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Yes, it's called Zen, Bering in the zone, in the groove, concentrating, etc. Lots of people do it.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10 ... 45498/full

I also experience this state quite readily when I am able to work without interruption (an impossibility at my new job!). At my prior employment, I was able to get into a flow state and complete what would be a full daily workload for others in just a few hours. I have experienced this in short and sustained intervals. For instance, once I had the inspiration to write a science fiction novel and used almost every spare moment for a year to use a flow state to write a draft. Then, when it came time to edit and reorganize my first draft, I found I could not draw on the flow state - it then felt like "work" instead of a hobby and I happily left the draft in a dark desk drawer. I can work without the flow state but it is not my best or most creative or most productive work.

A trick I have learned when I must complete tasks is to set a 20-30 minute timer. I have trained my brain to focus on a singular activity for that period of time and it helps me achieve flow at times and for tasks for which I find less inspiration.

I've experienced this type of hyper focus. I think it is called "flow state" although I've suspected for a while that my experience with flow state is well beyond what is considered normal.

As a software engineer, I've come up with solutions in this state that took a lot of effort for me to understand later when I was back in "normal" mode. It seems that I am able to use this state of mind to go far beyond my normal intellectual capabilities.

Also, I've experienced many times when I'm in this state and a coworker interrupts me that it takes me a few seconds to be able to switch back to a normal head space enough to even be able to understand the words they are saying. It is very disorienting and super irritating to be interrupted from this zone.

I've experienced this a lot especially when either designing web pages or composing music.
On the music front, I feel the music itself is almost channeled from another realm, many musicians have spoken about this. I always found it strange I could hear notes and melodies in my head without knowing any music theory at all. During this state I have no awareness of anything around me, and people have told me it's very difficult to get my attention, and when they do it's usually not pleasant.

I actually do refer to it as "the trance." I draft some very complicated contracts, which require that I bear down and focus deeply and draw on 35 years of experience with financing arrangements of up to a billion dollars. It is hard for me during the course of a regular work day to spend more than an hour in the trance before calls, e-mails or my secretary intervene, but on a Saturday morning I can start writing a contract and the next time I look at the clock it is five hours later.

Since I started having trouble with bipolar/schizophrenic symptoms, I struggle to get in the (productive) zone because it usually means I end up delusional.

An example from before that would be when I was DJ-ing and doing 2-3h sets, forgetting that there even existed a "world" around me. The music I mixed ended up quite complex and full of tonal variations. It wasn't hated on by the dance floor, but I didn't fill it.

I remember first noticing something like that a few decades ago when I successfully wrote a program that acted as a flexicurve for joining up points on a graph with a curved line rather than straight lines. At the time I felt that I didn't know what I was doing. But looking back, I think my work was based on things I "knew," just that I didn't put them into words. I'm sure it's entirely possible to think without using words. We tend to put our thoughts into words to communicate them to others or to open them up to our own scrutiny, and it can seem almost supernatural when we turn our wordless thoughts into actions.

Another way of describing it is that it's the result of recalling and using information on a level that's not 100% conscious.

I do a lot of music recording, and I'd struggle to describe what I do when I'm deeply immersed in that. As long as it works, there's no need, but if it doesn't, then I might try to raise those intuitive impulses into consciousness so that I can figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Sure I do.

But I miss it.
My current lifestyle wouldn't allow me.
No special interests came yet. Not anymore for some time now.

Only this weird fixations and weird habits that is neither useful nor a preference except as a mind candy.
And yes, by candy, I meant the unhealthy kind of consumables, consuming for the sake of consuming.
Addiction-induced overstimulation; not even a form of mastery or calming repetitive -- just conditioned distractions, no different from craving junk food.


So the closest I get now is during deliberate drawing practices. I only get loss sense of time and intense focus but...
Not enough speed to go around time constraints and not enough time to afford steadiness of patience.
Too distracted to just go about and too stressed to not be distracted first.

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i have never been an engineer before, but i did take up to Solid Mechanics II (inclusive) in Bachelors, in structural engineering.

i have never felt your "hyper focus" before.

on the other hand i also flunked out of that subject.

actually i feel like i have a hard time concentrating on anything, esp the older i get. 39. i could read a book if i like it, but sometimes i can't even keep up a conversation, much less do anything involving twenty steps with physics.

mostly i am just worried about (impending doom).

other thing is, i am not good at anything: academic, occupational, athletic, social, emotional, financial.

furthermore i do not like anything or anyone. not even, and esp not, my worthless corpse.

as a result of failure to concentrate (and many other factors), my worthless corpse 39 and nothing accomplished.

academic dismissal
made redundant
evicted
dumped by "friends"

i do not feel comfortable riding a bike or driving a car due to failure to concentrate, among other things.