Is oft that we examine our own thoughts and recognize the true value or lack thereof that which we think? What if what we think bears no merit? Would it be safe to stick with that thought even if that thought only affected you as you had not brought the thought to another’s ears or eyes? Using logic, if a pondering brings forth no fruit at present, the seed should not be discarded as it may be of value at another point in time. Then again, can one really discard a thought? One can forget that one thought about it, however, it is stored safely in the CPU upon your shoulders.
A thought bears an unseen link or association if you will. Granted most of us can recognize an association such as a smell that will transport us to another time and place when that scent was significant to us. The same occurs with music or a story or another other type of stimulus where an association is had. It is an unusual type of transport into our past that allows us to relive an experience in full color and texture even if we had not thought about the event for decades.
A professor once told me in order to remember something better, wear a favorite shirt, pants, sweater, or scent that has a value of its own. An associative value that is. One that bears meaning to you. What you would like to memorize in the present can be chunked even while associating. Unchunking will occur when one goes into main association.
So what of that thought that bears no merit? Hum. Could it be called upon? Sure! At the point in time when that thought/idea needs to be resurrected, from the murky depths it will rise like cream upon milk. Your mind may have to use its reverse cycle of recollection i.e., remembering all other things associated to that which you are trying to remember in order to bring it into full focus, but there it will be unless you incur brain damage.
Bah. So much for thought! ~ Arachne ~ November 22, 2008 @ 8:37 p.m. EST
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