#Mind wandering

[bookishwithathought]

“I just get friendship vibes from Azriel and Gwyn”

GOOD

Azriel needs to be friends with his mate before jumping into anything physical. He needs to be fully known, accepted, loved and chosen as a person before loved physically.

Gwyn had choice in physical intimacy stolen from her. Her very first experience with sex was violent, bloody, painful, traumatic. In my humble opinion, based on my own experiences, it would be good for her to be comfortable with her partner as a person first before she moves into physical intimacy. To have a layer of trust between them so she can feel safe to explore.

Any attraction should be built on a foundation of affection for who they are, stains and scars and all.

So good, let them be friends before moving into more ON PAGE, in their own book.

[mindwandering-and-attention]

Hi, I’m Emma, honours student at the University of Manitoba, and principal researcher of the “Mind wandering, inattention, and attentional control” study, which aims to investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying mind wandering and its relation to Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

We are currently seeking volunteers to participate in our online study. This study is intended for any adults, regardless of whether you have been diagnosed with, or suspect you have, ADHD.

In our study, you will complete a sustained attention task known as a go/no-go task. Periodically, the task will pause, and you will be asked to report on your thoughts and experiences just prior to the prompt. Following the sustained attention task you will complete brief questionnaires about your personality, prior experiences, and demographics.

The study will take approximately 30 minutes. You can complete the study anytime online at:

https://attentionandlearninglab.com/2023/HE2022-0321-COM/

This research has been approved by the Research Ethics Board at the University of Manitoba, Fort Garry campus, and is being completed under the supervision of Dr. Nicholaus Brosowsky.

Your participation is extremely important for the study, which we thank you in advance.

Kind regards,

Emma Fernando

Principal Investigator contact information:

Emma Fernando, Student

University of Manitoba

Email: fernan24@myumanitoba.ca

Principal Investigator contact information:

Dr. Nick Brosowsky, Assistant Professor

University of Manitoba

Email: nicholaus.brosowsky@umanitoba.ca

[ilovedirt]

Mind wanderer: I spend a lot of my mental time thinking aimlessly about my real life in a variety of ways, including creating simulations of real life scenarios involving other people, things in the real world, or projections into the past/future of my present reality

Day dreamer: I spend a lot of my mental time intentionally or aimlessly creating completely fictitious scenarios in my head about creatures, characters, places, and things that do not and/or can not exist in my present reality

Mindful thinker: I spend a lot of my mental time intentionally focusing on the real, present moment of my present existence and experience

Mental ruminator: I spend a lot of my mental time thinking about one thing obsessively, and this one thing may change from time to time to another thing I will think about obsessively, regardless of whether the thing is based in my present reality

[akiothescavenger]

Fictional characters are just their creators oc…. But like…. Published….

[wanderingmind867]

To really demonstrate how much my mind wanders, let me describe my mind on the bus ride to school yesterday. On the bus, I thought about my book and ideas for notes about it, I thought about comics for a bit, I thought about my feelings of deep stress about not reading enough, I thought about how I want to make a note about my social skills class, etc.

My mind wandered all over the place, and there was nothing I could do to control it. It just always does this to me. Even today, it wandered off. I thought of some music I listened to, I thought of some comics ideas i had, and I thought some very existensial thoughts about why i do the things i do. Why do I post online so much? Why can't my brain handle me taking breaks from it? Why am I so insecure? Questions like that. I also admired the sunrise, so that was nice.

[whiterosechrista]

A wandering mind (a.k.a, dreamland musings(?))

I dozed off a few hours, had a wild dream,

the contents so elusive it makes me want to scream.

Please help me forthwith, I am thinking in prose,

each successive rhyme a bit more on the nose.

[missmusketeer]

Mind Drifting

I'm currently staying at a cabin in the woods near central Oregon with family. I thought i could use the time away to use it as an opportunity for a sort of writers retreat if you will. So far not much has been happening the inspiration just hasn't been coming. But in the meantime, I have been checking out the Oregon sights. My favorite thing to do out here is to walk through the woods and let my mind wander so to speak. I find it very freeing, and quite therapeutic. I've been working on some reading projects too while I'm out here. Well rereading actually, but I'll touch up on that later. I want to really focus on a stage play I have in mind for a local theatre company i work for in my home town. I've decided I want to write a murder mystery, a whodunnit. I have some ideas in mind i just need to put them together in a stage play format. My idea is an old man on an isolated island off the coast of Portsmouth is somehow murdered. No one knows how or why? The family must get together to discuss his will which seems to have gone missing, and in trying to find it end up uncovering his mysterious past which seems to be linked to the great fire that nearly destroyed the town of Portsmouth. Any way this is just thinking im still putting my story in motion. there are too many distractions and not enough hours in the day to get much writing done but I'm doing my best. Any way as for my reading projects I brought with me Beyond the Deepwoods and The Master and Margarita. I brought Beyond the Deepwoods because i felt it was appropriate for the occasion. If no one has read the Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddle I highly recommend them. Its a fantasy series which even adults can enjoy. Its about a boy that goes on a life changing journey through the perilous Deepwoods in the fictional world known as the Edge. The Deepwoods are fraught with dangers and friends that come in the for of goblins, trogs, banderbears, and pirates on flying ships. My other reading project The Master and Margarita is a classic Russian novel that takes place in 1930s Moscow. Its about a struggling writer who is inlove with a witch that serves a black cat who loves chess and vodka. Its a beautiful and imaginative story thats a wonderful satire about politics, theology, and life in general. I cant wait to see the movie the trailer seems very well done. I've heard a lot of local russians arent too pleased with it as it supposedly indirectly satirizes Putin and his reign over Russia. I guess we'll have to see how it goes. In the meantime I have other writing and reading projects to work on. I'll keep everyone posted as much as i can. Wishing everyone well!

[wordsneveruttered]

Living in a Novel

I find love and comfort in books. I imagine I’m whoever my favorite character is in the current novel I’m reading, and I let my imagination wander and flow.

[cjjasp]

Writing through the Block #amwriting

We all have moments where our creativity has failed us. Maybe we had an idea, but the words wouldn’t come. Or when they did, they felt stilted, awful. We feel alone and isolated in this because we are writers. The words are supposed to flow from our fingers like water down the Columbia River. Some people call this writers’ block. I think of it as a temporary lull in my creativity. I have learned…

[mckitterick]

before ADHD was an accepted diagnosis, people got called MIND WANDERER

[ered]

Here’s my take on the whole audio books vs. reading:

Oral tradition of storytelling predates written ones by millennias, and honestly, which one you like is just a personal preference.

The actual difference is

when listening, you have no idea how to write characters’ names

when reading, you have no idea how to pronounce characters’ names

hope this helps!

[bookishwithathought]

E/riel gives "But daddy I love him" vibes in the worst of ways

[creativecalm]

STOP Ignoring Your Brain's Hidden Power!

[bookishwithathought]

Ok, but the picture that immediately came to mind:

After a loooooong night together, in the early moments of the day, Elain and Lucien are studying each other in comfortable silence, when all of a sudden Elain straddles Lucien, showering him with desperate kisses. He leans forward, sitting up with her when she groans and whispers that it’s not enough. Lucien throws his head back, landing on the pillow, letting out a full belly laugh while squeezing her waist. He pulls her down, crushing her to him.

“And may we never see the day that it becomes enough”, he says, before rolling over her, stealing her breath away with his mouth while enveloping her body with his own, arms wrapped around her smaller frame.

He lets some of that fire come to surface, brushing his hot fingers over her ribs, leaving a trail of heated goosebumps in their wake.

Everyone understandably wants SJM to show not tell when it comes to the "fire" in Lucien's blood (myself included), but what I want to see every bit as much is Elain thoroughly enjoying her relationship with him so much she's borderline drunk on it.

Elain not having a single reservation about taking the reins and letting him know when she wants him.

Elain lightheaded and spent and giggly waking up next to him in the morning but also feeling entirely safe and serene.

Their "frenzy" stage being worse meaning better than anyone else's because of the amount of energy they have pent up. Elain being worse about it than him and completely wearing him out to the point he's almost laughing. Feyre realizing the time that phase has lasted between them and internally asking Rhys if that's normal. Rhys laughing and telling her no (before, naturally, suggesting they give that duration a try themselves).

The two of them trying to be subtle, slick, and polite about the time they've had together when they finally re-emerge into society and it still hitting everyone like a ton of bricks to the point the sisters are fighting back laughter (and pride).

Lucien's control being as impressive and sexy as usual when Cass and Rhys goad him about it. Elain feeling him tense beside her but her giving his arm a gentle squeeze being enough to deter him.

The entire room feeling like a giant third wheel around them and Nesta making a crack to Feyre about "understanding how she felt" now being around her and Rhys. Feyre jabbing right back with how it felt being in the room with Nesta and Cassian.

Elain still seeming a little shy around others about her relationship with Lucien, but slowly loosening up and leaning against him, hugging him, beaming when he kisses her hair, and even after a drink or two, curling up in his lap in an armchair near the fire.

Lucien doing the hottest things as usual like taking her coat/cloak when they come in from outside, getting it for her and helping her into it when they leave, etc.

Feyre and Nesta having a shared understanding and mutual happiness for Elain that she's found not just her mate, but her soulmate.

[wickedzeevyln]

Where My Attention Shouldn’t Be

Hey Attention! Where on earth do you think you are going? Off somewhere, I see. Leaving me here on my own, stuck with questions people want me to answer. Where is your mind? They ask. Hate to say it, but he is wandering out there while I’m here working wondering what I am doing. Remember the glasses I bought? I threw it in a garbage can while you are off somewhere flirting with ideas and…

[ahhvernin]

Calendar notification. Staff meeting.

Pays a few energy coins for concentration and focus.

Meeting: first 15 minutes.

Me: good. Note taking good.

Person A: tangent about jury duty.

Me: (pays double the energy coins to try to keep on track)

Person B: extend tangent

Person A: SECOND tangent

Person B: Triple extends tangent

Me: (furiously throwing energy coins at brain to stay focused on meeting, trying to verbally get back on track, looking at notes so mind doesn't wander. Struggle is now visible. Interpreted as Impatience by coworkers.)

Meeting get back on track.

Me: (stressed and tired)

Person B: THIRD AND FOURTH AND FIFTH UNRELATED TANGENT

Me: (Thousands of coin in debt, hanging by a thread, mind now furiously wandering in dozens of different directions for several trains of thought, anything being discussed is barely audible) @-@

Distant Beep

Me: (snaps back to reality extremely mentally exhausted and drained) THATS MY TIMER! (Speed reads through notes for confirmation and then runs out)

Me: looks at notes. When did we talk about any of this?????????