Entry 1 - Summary of 3/2024 - 4/2024
Alright, so back in Spring 2024, we decided we wanted to be more active in our mind. While I worked through the day, they would watch everything happening through a screen in mindscape. We have hyperphantasia, which means our visualization skills are pretty sharp and developed. We also have multiple thought streams, which can be simply made out as multiple trains of thought. Both of these traits are the consequence of ADHD. We also never get headaches. I don't know if that influences anything for certain, but I suspect that since we don't ever get them, our training goes better due to less distraction and more intense training. Though it may be like not being able to feel pain; I could be damaging myself because I can't feel it hurting.
Those were our best strengths, so we tried to figure out a good strategy that took advantage of the multiple trains of thought, hyperphantasia, and intense, daily training. We figured out that multiple headmates can, very briefly, hold their own thought stream simultaneously. They were basically "hijacking" one of random thought streams I'd have. They couldn't hold it for very long before we got distracted, but it was possible. That meant we could improve duration and resilience against distractions. So we made a game we would play daily: get as high a score as possible for the day.
The game went like this: Pick a headmate, start a tally count, and start a 5 minute timer. 5 minutes is the baseline. My objective would be to lend some of my "attention/focus" to the other headmate, and their objective would be to stay concentrated and grounded to their thought stream. They would use their train of thought to not only immerse themselves in the mindscape, but stay active and NOT FREEZE. Multiple thought streams split the total amount of "mental RAM", and the best way to work with that is to build habits. It's said that the unconscious mind is 90 percent of the brain's processes, and everyone uses conscious, or "thinking" power as the other 10 percent.
Harnessing some of that unconscious energy would be amazing for our goals, but since we can't access it directly we'd have to figure something out. That's where habits come in. Habits use this "unconscious energy", meaning you can shift your conscious processes to the unconscious by making them into habits! We form habits by repeatedly doing a mental task, the more often you do it the faster you'll convert that "power source" from conscious to unconscious energy. That's how we developed the multiple thought streams, which is pretty important for this to work.
