How Cori's mind works
Dec. 6th, 2003 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lantairvleaCrands, it's only 9 and already I feel as if I've been up since . . . okay, nevermind, I HAVE been up since 6. But, yeah, if feels later than it is as my mind is starting to run in circles.
I think I've figured out something about myself. There's a reason that I'm almost constantly listening to music. It distracts part of my mind and allows the rest of it to focus on something else. As I think I've said before. I think best when mucking stalls, and when I muck the stalls I'm listening to music. Not only am I listening to music, but I'm also mucking out the stalls which is a physical activity which also requires some form of brain power. Forgive me if I seem to go off on a tangent. So I tend to think better with music, or any interesting background noise to think of it. My mind tends to wander a lot and doesn't like to focus on one thing for extended periods of time unless there's something else interesting going on at the same time. It's almost like I have to entertain one part of me with meaningless circles before the rest of it will function properly and do any form of real, non-circular thinking. Of course, there are times when external noise is a hinderance. Usually when I find it particularly annoying and it begins to consume all thought which then follow along the lines of "must . . . destroy . . . annoying sound, DESTROY!" Thankfully this doesn't happen often.
I also can't sit still. I have to be doing something. I tend to fidget a bit in place and oftentimes find myself rearranging my legs constantly and doing things with my hands (especially if I have something in them, not necessarily drawing or writing related). If there's music playing I'll often tap or nod or vibrate/shake something to the beat, but even if there's music playing, as was examplified by last night, I may still shift and move and fidget and generally not settling in one position.
It almost makes me think I'm ADD/ADHD or something. Granted, the not being able to concentrate thing is oftentimes sporatic, topic-specific *coughmathcough,* and seems to have surfaced more in the past two years than been a constant thing. But, yeah, I need to write papers.
I shall have two finished tonight or I will not sleep!
I think I've figured out something about myself. There's a reason that I'm almost constantly listening to music. It distracts part of my mind and allows the rest of it to focus on something else. As I think I've said before. I think best when mucking stalls, and when I muck the stalls I'm listening to music. Not only am I listening to music, but I'm also mucking out the stalls which is a physical activity which also requires some form of brain power. Forgive me if I seem to go off on a tangent. So I tend to think better with music, or any interesting background noise to think of it. My mind tends to wander a lot and doesn't like to focus on one thing for extended periods of time unless there's something else interesting going on at the same time. It's almost like I have to entertain one part of me with meaningless circles before the rest of it will function properly and do any form of real, non-circular thinking. Of course, there are times when external noise is a hinderance. Usually when I find it particularly annoying and it begins to consume all thought which then follow along the lines of "must . . . destroy . . . annoying sound, DESTROY!" Thankfully this doesn't happen often.
I also can't sit still. I have to be doing something. I tend to fidget a bit in place and oftentimes find myself rearranging my legs constantly and doing things with my hands (especially if I have something in them, not necessarily drawing or writing related). If there's music playing I'll often tap or nod or vibrate/shake something to the beat, but even if there's music playing, as was examplified by last night, I may still shift and move and fidget and generally not settling in one position.
It almost makes me think I'm ADD/ADHD or something. Granted, the not being able to concentrate thing is oftentimes sporatic, topic-specific *coughmathcough,* and seems to have surfaced more in the past two years than been a constant thing. But, yeah, I need to write papers.
I shall have two finished tonight or I will not sleep!
