Posted by alexandra_k on September 3, 2013, at 19:13:56
In reply to Re: Social Skills, posted by alexandra_k on August 25, 2013, at 4:16:12
and maybe it is not a motor memory... i need to check again but there is some stuff...
the 'default' mode of thought... kind of free associating. dreaming. daydreaming. then effortful thinking as our supervisor comes online and we direct our thinking on logical trains. i forget who... mental time travel... we don't need to act and get the consequences of our acts and learn that way... we can mentally run through different options and different likely outcomes... our ideas can die in our steed.
the default... brain dump. there is something about how relative levels of neurotransmitters globally affect things... the idea of salience. surprise.
i am... at the moment... my supervisory process is weak. external stimuli is high salience. i get the orienting response automatically and it is really hard to refocus... since i quit smoking. maybe... some psych med could help me a little with that...
apparently there is something about levels... that seems to produce the wandering thing (i get stuck in my wanderings) and (get this) a negative affect. that people get this at times around sleeping... something to do with transmitter levels.
so... that is it. sometimes i ruminate on traumatic past. actually... that isn't even true anymore. i hardly ever ruminate on traumatic past anymore. hardly ever. i hardly ever get flashes of hard stuff either. but i do get that mental wandering and negative affect... sounds like... it is normal.
huh.
huh.
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