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Out of boredom and curiosity I just started overlaying everything I know about birds and flight. Everything from it's bone structure to the aerodynamics of flig

by kaens 18y ago

Out of boredom and curiosity I just started overlaying everything I know about birds and flight. Everything from it's bone structure to the aerodynamics of flight feathers etc. I blacked out and by the time I was aware again we 10 - 15 minutes had gone by. I do the same thing on a regular basis, and I think the same "blacking out" thing happens to me (unless you literally blacked out), but I wouldn't really describe it as blacking out. It's more like day-dreaming - I end up in a mental state where there's nothing but what I'm looking at / thinking about. Very "visually" vivid, but hard to describe, and when I come out of it some amount of time has passed (5 to 15 minutes), and I'll have no clue what happened in my surroundings during that time.

Retric 18y ago
That's sounds close, so I guess the Neurochemistry is probably similar. How do you find this useful? I can concentrate on one thing when coding but I can still direct my thinking process, but this seemed to be just build a model without anything spare to manipulate it. It also seemed fairly draining as I was out of it for a while.
- kaens 18y ago
  It's not always useful, and I don't have full control over it - although I can somewhat tell the level of concentration I have to be in to enter that state, I don't have any control over whether or not I enter it past not focusing extremely hard. It tends to happen when I concentrate on one "thing" in an abstract manner for too long. It has been useful for visualizing overarching design - if I know what an unwritten application needs to do I might visualize how the "parts" should fit together (not in any magic sense, just faster than I would without being in that state). Sometimes it's good for solving logic problems, riddles, etc. Sometimes it's not good for anything at all. Most of the time that it is really useful, it's by coincidence. It's not a physically draining thing for me at all, just a bit disorienting.

by kaens 18y ago

Retric 18y ago

That's sounds close, so I guess the Neurochemistry is probably similar. How do you find this useful? I can concentrate on one thing when coding but I can still direct my thinking process, but this seemed to be just build a model without anything spare to manipulate it. It also seemed fairly draining as I was out of it for a while.

kaens 18y ago
It's not always useful, and I don't have full control over it - although I can somewhat tell the level of concentration I have to be in to enter that state, I don't have any control over whether or not I enter it past not focusing extremely hard. It tends to happen when I concentrate on one "thing" in an abstract manner for too long. It has been useful for visualizing overarching design - if I know what an unwritten application needs to do I might visualize how the "parts" should fit together (not in any magic sense, just faster than I would without being in that state). Sometimes it's good for solving logic problems, riddles, etc. Sometimes it's not good for anything at all. Most of the time that it is really useful, it's by coincidence. It's not a physically draining thing for me at all, just a bit disorienting.