When you concentrate you also ignore stuff.
(we all concentrate, for work, play, reading, studying, school … we practice it in school … people who are good at it are “good workers”…)
But you call it CONCENTRATION instead of IGNORING because the stuff you concentrate on gets easy-to-see but the stuff you ignore sorta fades away (and then you stop thinking about it, and then it disappears).
The stuff you concentrate on is relatively small. A book. An idea. A game. An attractive girl’s butt. A plan for the future. A tv show.
And that stuff getting ignored is relatively HUGE. Like a whole invisible universe there.
It’s spooky when you think of it. Like a little bit of DIY brain surgery that everybody does but nobody talks about. Like we’re all a bunch of Harry Potters casting obliviate upon ourselves.
And then we forgot that we cast it, because it’s obliviate.
So tell me what you think.
Nemo@midwest.social 8 months ago
Concentration is always about removal. Concentrated orange juice has water removed, for example. You remove what you don’t need so you can devote more effort to what’s important.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 8 months ago
Nah, concentrated air in a bottle didnt need anything to be removed :-)
Nemo@midwest.social 8 months ago
except all the space between the molecules
Dr_Satan@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You are in a dark room with a flashlight.
You cast a circle of light. You see a bit of rug, the edge of the couch.
Outside that it’s dark. No information. Not even thought about. Nonexistent.
The whole universe exists inside the circle of light.
Then you see something interesting. A detail on the fabric of the couch. You focus. The circle of light narrows and brightens. The darkness grows…
Now the universe is a bit of pattern on a bit of cloth.
Repeat…
And here’s a question : how would you reverse this process?
Nemo@midwest.social 8 months ago
Unfocus. Move your head / fladhlight around. Take a step back.