How is your mind organised?

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I often visualise my mind in terms of boxes. Most of the boxes that contain intelligent thoughts and useful knowledge are packed away neatly, and only accessed occasionally, but I do know where they are :) The rest is a mess of trivia, bits of trivia everywhere! Bits of music, random facts, bits of TV shows etc.

Do you visualise your mind like this?

― jel --, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't visualise my mind at all. I never have.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

like the OED and the encyolpedia britanica put into a shredder and then dumped over a large wheat feild . I am a man whos task it is to run arround and try to compile the information .

― anthony, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

penetrans ad interiorum mortis

― mark s, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i have had to start writing everything down as i just can't remember it. my thoughts lie in piles (like my books and my CDs) with the most current and relevant ones at the top for east access. but i tend to forget about the ones lower down the pile. in some cases, lose them. i think i am going senile prematurely.

― katie, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha interiorum = interiora sigh

― mark s, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Compost heap. Somewhere deep down in the pile of festering waste and old potato scraps an organic process is beginning that will transform muck into useful material (although sadly eventual brass is unlikely). I have very little conscious access to how it's happening, and my belief that it even is is pretty threadbare. But it's happened before and it'll happen again and I'll finish the goddamn hmphphsthing [cannot be named] by the end of May, goddamnit.

― Ellie, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In a big tangled spaghetti type way. But it's just a question of finding the right strand and pulling.

― Anna, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mine isn't it's all over the place, as anyone who's been at a pub quiz with me while trying to remember that all elusive answer will attest. I do get very happy when I finally remember it though.

― chris, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am like an empty pool table - lots of shit in the pockets, nothing on the top.

― Queen G, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Multiple partially interleaved stacks, like a desk at midpoint between pristine tidiness and maximum entropy.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm with Ronan, never occurred to me to envision my mental organization. Stuff is in there. Yay!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

godel => you cant envision own mind due to being in it

― sam s, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

godel -> for every mind there exists another mind which it cannot envision.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A woodshed with lots of big boards kind of falling out the back.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

An hourglass spinning in perpetuity, with each grain of sand representing some sort of trivial factoid or cherished memory, with each collision creating strange associations between seemingly unrelated pieces of information.

― Daver, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Much like my CD collection, ie 3 CDs I listen to constantly even though I'm bored of them, then all the rest is junk I never go near.

― Graham, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

its like a piano really. if you strike a key, a hammer will hit a spring and something will magically appear.

actually thats not really how i visualise my mind. i visulaise my mind as being a veritable gumbo of garbage.

― di, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mind is in compartments. Everything in it's place. Kind of like I live.

― Gale, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's like a hurricane in a filing cabinet and someone's managed to put A-C back in place, but the rest is everywhere and keeps getting moved about. Mainly it shows an annoying preference to retain utterly useless facts at the surface and hide, or dispose of useful things. A lot of the time there is no access to the data, and an encrpyted key and a letter asking permission to use the mind is required, usually permission is granted within 4 wokring days. We did some brief word association tasks at college today and it struck me that my mind is fucked. These were my results: 'wet' = 'dog', 'swift' = 'bird', 'petal' = 'hammer', 'apple' = 'box' and finally 'shoot' = 'hoops'. It's not right.

― alix, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Those word associations don't seem very weird Lixi. Shoot hoops - well a simple basketball phrase. Wet Dog, wet noses on dogs are a very visceral connexion. Petal Hammer, well that's just a Metal Hammer rawk magazine play. Sorry Lixi, your brane is ordinaire.

Mine on the other hand seems to work slightly differently.

― Pete, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I wasn't saying that I have a super kooky brane, but the associations seemed to be a little unusual. I refrained from sharing them with the class when the lecturer asked. I would quite like to get a printout of my brane and see all my thoughts. Imagine.

― alxi, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mind is like a plastic bag.

― emil.y, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mind is very beautiful. However, I am not a schizophrenic Nobel- winning closet case portrayed on screen by Russell Crowe. I WIN ALL AROUND.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine is ruled by my emotions, so if there's unresolved drama or excitement or any strong feelings, really -- there will be no mind to speak of. Otherwise it's your basic camper stew: everything dumped into one pot and stirred.

― Pyth, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eight years pass...

I often describe my mind as a lint brush.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:27 (fourteen years ago)

I picture my mind as a library where a serious lecture is being held with a marching band playing simultaneously.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:36 (fourteen years ago)

My mind is a tunnel that's full of shit.

― Suppositori Spelling (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 21:41 (fourteen years ago)

Usually I think of mine as a large mesh screen. In places where there's already information accumulating, the mesh has expanded into cubby-holes, so that as the dataflow passes through it, some things settle onto the shelving and stay there.

In places where I don't have any related data or familiarity with the information, it just passes straight through the sieve as if it never existed. Context isn't just key, it's everything.

― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)

my mind is a loosely connected set of tunnels extending out from a nice warm living room. i spend most of my time in the living room, the pleasant seat of my self. but i often have to go and rummage through the endlessly telescoping tunnels to find things. and sometimes i get lost.

― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 22:16 (fourteen years ago)

i have this constant battle on not to be distracted by trivial things or irrational beliefs and make my mind (the map) conform more closely to reality (the territory). but most of the time i can't be arsed with all that learnin' and thinkin' hard. so i suppose it is like... a bent paper clip or something?

― http://i56.tinypic.com/xnsu1g.gif (max arrrrrgh), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 22:20 (fourteen years ago)

Oh, I should point out that I'm forever hurtling along that tunnel at breakneck speed.

― Suppositori Spelling (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 22:41 (fourteen years ago)

seven months pass...

I always thought I had environmental notions...but then I saw an email saying "Three days to save Amazon", and I was "oh no! I hope my comics get to me still!" :(

― jel --, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

do not fear - both amazons will survive - I am personalty seeing to it

― I love obscure members of the Athrotheiria mammal genus and... (Latham Green), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 19:21 (fourteen years ago)

I can't answer this because my mind is completely disorganised

― Lee626, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 19:33 (fourteen years ago)

a min dis a terrible thing to taste

― I love obscure members of the Athrotheiria mammal genus and... (Latham Green), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 19:52 (fourteen years ago)

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