Deep thinking, very interesting thread and something I do think about. I have always been a deep thinker. I just had assumed every person was that way. And I do come from a long line of deep thinkers genetically.

And people have told me that I am extremely deep and intelligent people tell me that they enjoy my depth and people who are not deep often truely cannot follow how deep I go. And I haven't really met anyone yet that goes deeper than me, I thought about my father possibly but I can go deeper than him and because he is older now, I can't get as deep as I would like with him anymore. And yet I wonder is he might have been deeper than I realized too because he is a quiet man.

When we talk about deep thinkers it doesn't mean mental illness. I we allow ourselves to think about the individuals that have offered some real imput about gravity and the theory of relativity, and electricity and that list goes on and on. Even the current ability to understand the different disorders and how they present themselves in different individuals, there was never any shallow thinking involved there.

The average person traveling on a bus to a destination may look out the window or at other people and just drift in a shallow state of mind. But a deep thinking is like Einstein who goes way past that and thinks about speed and time and he just went deeper than so many other people ever go. And even Steve Jobs had a tremendous ability to go deep and come up with so many things that we have at our disposal today. So, deep is not dark by any means, it a place that reaches beyond everything we take in and shelve as memories and information and then dives into an intelligence of taking all that information and formulating new knowledge and ideas.

If we didn't have the deep thinkers, we would not have anything we have now. And even the primates present deep thinkers that can see a need and really concentrate on how to fill that need to create a new tool.

Many times I have come across people who just don't seem to think. And I wonder how they even manage. And some of these people get so rattled because they just can't go deep. And it took me a while to figure that out because I just assumed other people were just like me and even smarter than me and I never considered myself intelligent at all.

And at my age now I see a lot more than I realized and I also see how I was different and what that means. And I was always analyzing things, always. And on lots of different levels. And I always seemed to notice things others don't see and I can see that more now looking back.

I would not short change deep thinking. Because when we use that part of the brain we often disengage the part of the brain that involves anxiety, fear and emotions. And I understand how some may consider a disassociation aspect of that deep thinking because in some ways it does remove someone from the immediate external shallow thinking patterns that easily allow the areas of anxiety and fear and confusion take place. But I do not think disassociation has that much depth to it, I think that type of thinking just disengages all thought into a kind of void area.

And if I engage that part of my brain, I can come up with some interesting concepts and a better understanding of realities that many others do not see. And I press beyond an immediate assumption of disillusionment, I am more interested in the Reality of a situation and some real understanding and resolve.

And people who deep think can even get to a point where they also can disengage and some answer can be presented. My dad had a customer who was brilliant and I think some of the inventors did this too. This customer would be discussing a situation or issue with my father and all of a sudden he would be asleep. And then he would wake up all of a sudden and have some kind of new idea or resolve of some kind. And I think Benjamin Franklin did that if I am not mistaken. And I know I do that too because I can go to sleep and my brain doesn't stop it just works at things in a very deep way. And often I will wake up and the answer is there and other times I can see the answer while I am sleeping but I just cant retrieve it when I wake up and dam I get so mad because it was there just on the other side of awakening.

And this is not a disorder, my solutions are not distorted or twisted, they are real.
And I don't know if anyone here can even understand or relate to what I am discribing. And I really thought everyone did that, hense the saying, "I will sleep on it".

Can someone with a distorted mind or disorder deep think in a bad way? Well that could be possible. But what I DO know is that some of the historical architecture that is so intricate most likely came from some significant deep thinking. When I watch programs that insist there must have been aliens during those times where the architectural advances are so hard to imagine for those time periods, I believe there were some very deep thinking brillant people even back then.

The human brain is full of things that we have not yet recognized. And we don't even use all of our brains. And I have noticed things about animals and some are very smart. Training horses is amazing because after a good workout in teaching them something, they do think about it afterwards. And some horses really like to think and be challenged and they are right there with you and very receptive and they want to engage and they even get frustrated as they are engagaing and are trying to learn something. And dogs? They can learn so much too and we are now studying to see if animals do actually have the ability to love and attach like we do and I know they have remorse.

The brain of a horse is the size of a walnut. Just like us, some are smarter than others and they have a capacity to learn so very much. The brain is an amazing thing.

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