| I didn’t hear “the voices” until after I was 30, though after over a decade I could look back and notice they were there all along (little clues that added up.) Not the same ones in character or identity mind you, they come and go, yet their network coverage may give the illusion they are one. To share what I have learned of consciousness relating to what you’ve said… Most are locked into a singular first person perspective like a flatlander. Every neuron in the mind, and the clusters in which they are arranged are individual units of consciousness that work together to form a whole. These are always operating, yet only one dominant region at a time (without development). This region varies throughout the day, or by kind of task (driving or working or watching tv for instance engaged different faculties.) Individual regions raffle up into the singular perspective most everyone else is familiar with. These regions aren’t like individual selves, their thoughts and processes are more primitive and don’t really make coherent sense alone. I can force my mind to use whichever part I wish through determined effort, yet when I do, I become sort of dumb in subtle things until that part wires itself to be more competent. Concentrate effort in the forward lobe for instance, or the back of the mind. It takes practice and time (days or weeks for slight improvements, not moments. Years for mastery.) Anyone who has forced themselves through specialized training can tell you the beginning is arduous and it isn’t until much later that gains begin to multiply and finally things once impossible become first nature and look effortless. Everything of the mind is like this. Advanced thought control can hobble the mind, cause spinning thoughts, direct attention, even manipulate sexuality (a game for them.) I’m stubborn and like confrontation, so I think my experiences are different than others who struggle and adapt to what they think “nature” is telling them. |