AIBU to think you cannot think of literally nothing?

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As in you do not see the word nothing in your mind, or there is not a blank sheet of nothing in your head, but someone has unplugged something important and you can still send a power signal to basic life functions, but your RAM is corrupt and you no longer compute.

IDK how else to explain it but my mind is blown that some people can have nothing, literally nothing, in their mind but not be brain dead.

I can't think of nothing, and don't think I'd want to. But I suppose we have to believe what other people say about their own experience. It blows my mind more that some of us think in words and some don't - I don't, and didn't know that some people do until adulthood. Or that some people don't have a mind's eye - can't picture things in their heads. Thoughts, emotions, everything - we're all so different. We all live in worlds of our own, with no real understanding of the minds of even those closest to us. It's amazing so many of us communicate and get on as well as we do.

I do have an inner voice, but my internal monologue tends to be mostly feelings. I can picture things as well, but I have to concentrate on that a bit more. But I can very easily switch all of them off. It’s weird to me that some people can’t. It’s not meditative because I’ve tried that and I’m thinking about breathing. It’s just nothing. No thoughts, feelings or images. Usually when I’m doing something on autopilot. And then I just switch it right back on when I need to.

@BrainInterestingButFuckedUp That sounds bloody terrifying 💐

I know when my mind is nearly out of things to think about. That's when the crazy jukebox that resides in my head starts randomly playing music.

I'm 75 and cannot recall a moment, when I'm awake, where I've had no thoughts in my head.

it doesn't upset me, it's just part of me. I'm thinking all of the time. That seems to me to be part of being alive.

in fact, I see it in our family dog. Dog has her routines, out for a walk first thing, then breakfast then a few treats from me. Dog will always come to me for treats straight after her walk. I'll tell dog to go and get her breakfast. Dog will stand and ponder that command for a couple of seconds, then run into the kitchen to get her breakfast. So dogs mind , in my view, is "thinking" what do.I do before treats? Oh, breakfasts.

I cannot imagine a life without thoughts in my head. Some spoken off, some silent. But thoughts all the time.

I imagine a cube that is mirrored inside, and go into it in my imagination.