Correction: I had seen those spells, but not read them (as much as it did not feel relevant at the time and I was preoccupied).
Should I push it up to the Compendium site, too when I get to it? (Think I've not updated the IC archive a while, too, though I do have the HTML copies sitting around.)
And heh... I generally used to draw during boring lessons. (I did not own a laptop before university, so it's not like I could've brought one with me ... in university I pretty much switched to doing homework or proper work at lectures.) That was pretty much the only way I could obtain that info, since otherwise, I admit, I generally just fell asleep... (And the human brain has a tendency to not store things experienced during sleep properly into long-term memory, which is why people often have hard time recalling sleep-type dreams fully, as well as any times they woke briefly during the night. Technically, your hearing and other senses will work as usual during dreams. As I've said before, being asleep is nothing like being unconscious.)
The brain also tends to have some kind of ... optimal level of being occupied, I suppose.
(Also, muscle-memory can be dangerous. I've seen a person utterly forget their bank pin because they accidentally consciously thought over it after having relied on their muscle-memory for years...)
Like noted before, subconscious processing will happily not only take over the more mechanical tasks, but often also complex analysis. Ever had it occur that a solution to something or a new approach to try or idea to insert in relation to something you've been working on just suddenly pops into your head even when you haven't been actively thinking on it? Yeah.
In conclusion, it really depends on what your definition of "think" is - is it having the focus of your conscious attention on something, or is it all (higher complex) analysis taking place within your mind? (Question is not fully rhetorical; for the sake of context, I'm actually curious. In turn, you should perhaps ask what they mean when they say "think" the next time a similar statement pops up...)
As for me, then I can listen to music in my head all I want, but much like visualization or hearing speech, it does require at least a measure of (semi-)conscious attention to uphold, so it won't exactly occur randomly. (I think the only times some piece of music has succeeded to annoy me would be when I couldn't immediately recall where those were from.) Similarly, I'd have to intentionally unravel a musical piece in my mind to hear only some persistent part of it, like only a few instruments or the vocals (since I often don't pay too much attention to vocals while casually listening, it might actually take me listening to the entire song in my head to figure out what the vocals are in the first place ... I've discovered that a couple of the few non-instrumentals in my main playlist actually have pretty weird messages after having listened them for a while and for whatever reason, suddenly deciding to pay attention or think over them).
I most commonly listen to music while working, actually, though I suppose for me it's mostly to start myself off (I actually tend to phase the music out once I'm focused on what I'm doing). I tend to be fairly good at phasing distractions around me out when I'm intently focusing on something in general, save for when someone, say, calls out my name or opts to stand by my table and look at me, which will cause whatever part of my subconsciousness deals with monitoring surroundings poke at me so I can go "Ah, what?" and consciously catch up on what happened. Of course, if I happen to be together with people who have taken it upon themselves to bother me in a way that actually demands I focus on them a bit, it can be rather disruptive and annoying...
I do occasionally take breaks on my own volition, though (well ... I am now, among other things), but I generally place those after some logical chunk or piece of work.
I occasionally also listen music for the sake of listening to it... I also tend to differentiate between music depending on context. A lot of it may fit a scene, but isn't really what I would listen on its own. Likewise, very little on my main playlist (which is a combination of what I'd term "listening-music" and what is the, eh, "working-music" - the first is generally a bit more varied and less uniform, I suppose? "Working-music" might be better off not particularly distracting, you see...) is what I'd term relaxing, since given my main uses for it, becoming more relaxed is actually heavily counterproductive. Worse would be music which induces feelings akin to melancholy... Curiously enough, a fair amount of those things people on Youtube like to label "inspirational" are crushingly melancholic. (Not all of them, obviously.)
Granted, a couple of titles tend to induce slightly melancholic feelings purely by association (such as the end titles of a couple of old games).
Incidentally, if I do listen to music while writing (I only sometimes do), then it's typically just my usual working/listening-music, and not anything that would set the mood (with rare exceptions - I actually idly tried to assign titles to the FDRR factions at one point), so chances are it's probably situationally inappropriate...
As a sidenote, I also recalled an article about how certain environmental elements tend to affect people's ability to remember what they were going to do. Entering a new room and even simply just going through a doorframe were a big one...
EDIT: I reckon you somehow messed up a couple of tags somewhere in there. Or it doesn't like the brackets you have around the words at some place. The front-end style-coding of this site is anything but robust.
See:
Test
[b][i]Test[/b][/i]
(Just swapping the closing tags breaks it...)
Should I push it up to the Compendium site, too when I get to it? (Think I've not updated the IC archive a while, too, though I do have the HTML copies sitting around.)
And heh... I generally used to draw during boring lessons. (I did not own a laptop before university, so it's not like I could've brought one with me ... in university I pretty much switched to doing homework or proper work at lectures.) That was pretty much the only way I could obtain that info, since otherwise, I admit, I generally just fell asleep... (And the human brain has a tendency to not store things experienced during sleep properly into long-term memory, which is why people often have hard time recalling sleep-type dreams fully, as well as any times they woke briefly during the night. Technically, your hearing and other senses will work as usual during dreams. As I've said before, being asleep is nothing like being unconscious.)
The brain also tends to have some kind of ... optimal level of being occupied, I suppose.
(Also, muscle-memory can be dangerous. I've seen a person utterly forget their bank pin because they accidentally consciously thought over it after having relied on their muscle-memory for years...)
It's for that same reason that I've always tended to look somewhat skeptically at people claiming (very confidently, too) that one can only think of one thing at the time.I'd reckon they specifically mean the conscious focus (or having your attention consciously be on something) when they speak of thinking, rather than, well, the general processing of info and analysis. In that they might not be too far off (depending a bit on the individual). If they mean general processing? Then they're objectively wrong.
Like noted before, subconscious processing will happily not only take over the more mechanical tasks, but often also complex analysis. Ever had it occur that a solution to something or a new approach to try or idea to insert in relation to something you've been working on just suddenly pops into your head even when you haven't been actively thinking on it? Yeah.
In conclusion, it really depends on what your definition of "think" is - is it having the focus of your conscious attention on something, or is it all (higher complex) analysis taking place within your mind? (Question is not fully rhetorical; for the sake of context, I'm actually curious. In turn, you should perhaps ask what they mean when they say "think" the next time a similar statement pops up...)
As for me, then I can listen to music in my head all I want, but much like visualization or hearing speech, it does require at least a measure of (semi-)conscious attention to uphold, so it won't exactly occur randomly. (I think the only times some piece of music has succeeded to annoy me would be when I couldn't immediately recall where those were from.) Similarly, I'd have to intentionally unravel a musical piece in my mind to hear only some persistent part of it, like only a few instruments or the vocals (since I often don't pay too much attention to vocals while casually listening, it might actually take me listening to the entire song in my head to figure out what the vocals are in the first place ... I've discovered that a couple of the few non-instrumentals in my main playlist actually have pretty weird messages after having listened them for a while and for whatever reason, suddenly deciding to pay attention or think over them).
I most commonly listen to music while working, actually, though I suppose for me it's mostly to start myself off (I actually tend to phase the music out once I'm focused on what I'm doing). I tend to be fairly good at phasing distractions around me out when I'm intently focusing on something in general, save for when someone, say, calls out my name or opts to stand by my table and look at me, which will cause whatever part of my subconsciousness deals with monitoring surroundings poke at me so I can go "Ah, what?" and consciously catch up on what happened. Of course, if I happen to be together with people who have taken it upon themselves to bother me in a way that actually demands I focus on them a bit, it can be rather disruptive and annoying...
I do occasionally take breaks on my own volition, though (well ... I am now, among other things), but I generally place those after some logical chunk or piece of work.
I occasionally also listen music for the sake of listening to it... I also tend to differentiate between music depending on context. A lot of it may fit a scene, but isn't really what I would listen on its own. Likewise, very little on my main playlist (which is a combination of what I'd term "listening-music" and what is the, eh, "working-music" - the first is generally a bit more varied and less uniform, I suppose? "Working-music" might be better off not particularly distracting, you see...) is what I'd term relaxing, since given my main uses for it, becoming more relaxed is actually heavily counterproductive. Worse would be music which induces feelings akin to melancholy... Curiously enough, a fair amount of those things people on Youtube like to label "inspirational" are crushingly melancholic. (Not all of them, obviously.)
Granted, a couple of titles tend to induce slightly melancholic feelings purely by association (such as the end titles of a couple of old games).
Incidentally, if I do listen to music while writing (I only sometimes do), then it's typically just my usual working/listening-music, and not anything that would set the mood (with rare exceptions - I actually idly tried to assign titles to the FDRR factions at one point), so chances are it's probably situationally inappropriate...
As a sidenote, I also recalled an article about how certain environmental elements tend to affect people's ability to remember what they were going to do. Entering a new room and even simply just going through a doorframe were a big one...
EDIT: I reckon you somehow messed up a couple of tags somewhere in there. Or it doesn't like the brackets you have around the words at some place. The front-end style-coding of this site is anything but robust.
See:
Test
[b][i]Test[/b][/i]
(Just swapping the closing tags breaks it...)
