I do not want an official textbook psychology answer.
How do YOU think it happens?
How are these thoughts recycled again and again?
Why are they recycled again and again?
One last question- Do all of our thoughts come from our minds?
2006-11-19 03:32:53 · 10 answers · asked by ? 5 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
No matter how open-minded a person is, there will always be some perspectives that we do not choose to look from. But a person changes and all our experiences cause us to see things from new angles. Whenever that happens, all thoughts (the new ones and the old, discarded thoughts) are seen different under this new light. The mind automatically searchs all thoughts and look at them from the new perspective we adopted. In this process, some old thoughts become important in that new angle and we get the feeling the an old thought has been recycled. I believe that the recycling is a sign of change and of having new perspectives. - and my answer to your last question is: Not only 'all thoughts' but 'everything' exists in our mind, waiting for us to discover them.
2006-11-20 18:15:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smithy's answer about the brain shrinking is hilarious! LOL. Like juice from an orange, huh? But sorry, it's wrong. The thing is: those old thought you thought you discarded were never actually erased. They were just filed away in the brain's memory center. Sort of like data on your computer being stored on your hard drive. But when you think of something, or some event reminds you of that old thought, it comes to the forefront again. The brain is powerful beyond belief, and nothing that is stored is EVER erased for good; it's always lurking in the memory banks. Also, the event that brings that old thought back can be so subtle! Like a smell, a taste, a word, a piece of music.
2006-11-19 11:55:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Premise:Thoughts are energy.
First law of thermodynamics...... about energy never disappearing. Thoughts can't be discarded in that sense, but they can change their frequency (Energy exists in wave form).
(first three questions answered above)
Now, we must look at the second law to determine if all thoughts come from our minds. We must assume by our ability to generate thought, and our ability in increase our generation of thought, then thoughts do come from outside of our minds. And I feel we filter that energy with our own personal lens of perception when we add them to our cognitive thought processes.
Hope this helps. I'm not the best of fully understanding how to communicate answers that fit what I've obseverved myself.
2006-11-19 14:38:22 · answer #3 · answered by lachlann85 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find that my mind chews on everything I see and here in the background and then spits out different versions of the same idea as it applies to what I'm doing. There's very little new under the sun.
2006-11-19 12:35:55 · answer #4 · answered by Tom H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe a recent experience, one that resembles an experience you had in the past, acted as a cue, causing these past thoughts to come to mind. I saw something on MASH, and Hawkeye smelled something that brought a part of his past to mind. He was disturbed by it until he learned to identify the part of his past that this related to, with the help of a psychologist. I know what it's like to be bothered by the past, and this rings true to me.
2006-11-19 11:52:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think our thoughts ever completely go away. They are just lost in the depths of our sea of thought, under those on the surface which we are more aware of.
I think that some of our thoughts can actually be us "hearing" another spirit, we can just mistake it for our own thought if we aren't aware of the spirits around us.
2006-11-20 09:37:12 · answer #6 · answered by bregweidd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The human condition replaying the forces of nature and chaos...
Fractal theory states that everything is a wheel within a wheel to one extent or another, so it only follows that we follow these types of patterns as they occur...
2006-11-22 07:39:54 · answer #7 · answered by Ichi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Old discarded thoughts are wiped off and made new whenever a question calls their name.
2006-11-19 21:32:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Each of us has unique reference pointers in our brain cells which is not too easy and not too difficult to build-up old memory or thoughts in this massive network up on our head. It depends.
2006-11-21 20:30:08 · answer #9 · answered by p 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you get older the brain shrinks, bringing all the memories back into focus...then you start repeating yourself then you start repeating yourself.
2.Brain is where everthing is stored, so yes
2006-11-19 11:48:41 · answer #10 · answered by smithy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋