Thread: How important is keeping an overview for general lucidity

Originally Posted by Threeofeight

i don't know if it's the same eithe but; when I think of knowing how reality interacts with our expectations. I think that reality never lives up to expectations. And they are always false. It's way better to be attentive to what is. And becoming aware of expectations is becoming aware of false beliefs. That's how I feels on this particular subject. You may feel otherwise. Or perhaps you are alluding to other psychic processes at work. Which I agree have a presence in every day living. But it is not (to my mind) expectation. That's just the wrong word imo

But yes, taking time out of tasks we humans do and actually taking the time to smell scents unseen. Becoming aware of things we as a whole commonly don't pay much attention to. And what I mean is actually intergrating the information and doing something with it. As a natural cause of intergrating information. For example; A homeless man on the streets, do we see him? What emotions, fears, thoughts run through his head. When you become aware of that. Will we ignore the homeless man then. Just as an example. Internal psychic worlds are massive unseen landscapes for me. Especially with Autism more and more people have trouble being present to other people's psychic landscapes. Maybe I am ranting a little but..

Also singletasking is not something I brought up here but is something I pay much attention to lately. I find it very pleasant as a meditative and practical practice. My question to you is, what do you single-task on. How do you personally intergrate this into a practice?

Aight looking forward to ur reply

Hi again !

First bold sentence: yes, one thing is expectations in the sense of " i hope this travel will be amazing, the food will be good" and so on. So, it is a kind of hope. And it also plays a role in lucid mindset. But i was referring to expectations in the sense of projecting our beliefs and assumptions onto reality and then seeing them reflected backwards at us. For instance, when we are happy, people seem less threathning, but when our mood is down we pay more attention to cues of danger and threat, and they seem more judgemental, right ? So, our concerns, or hopes, our thoughts they bias the perception to some extent and so they influence our reality. The most simple example is our thoughts. If i think this person is nice, then it is nice. If i think it is not so nice, then it is not. We think the person is nice from their own side, but it is our thoughts that make it so.Do you agree ? For instance, the placebo (and its opposite nocebo effect) is also a good example of how expectations work in reality. This discussion about expectations can be carried into very deep waters, involving the assumptions we have about the nature of reality itself too, and that is a feature of so called daytime dream yoga practices (many resources on the web) and most spiritual traditions

The second bold sentence:how do i singletasking ? it usually goes something like this: i try not to overstimulate myself with too much sensorial or intelectual input at the same time. For instance, if i am eating i interact with my food and try not be listening to a podcast at the same time, or loosing myself in rumination. That creates a stressful state of fragmentation and mind switching which, yes, is uncomfortable. I try to do things with 100% bandwidth. But is difficult for me.
Do you have the experience of having your body doing one thing, and the mind doing something different ? It's the most basic form of multitasking and the one i try to transform. As you said, it is very pleasant to be doing one thing at a time. We can enter a flow state while doing anything with undivided attention. And when it happens, this pleasure becomes an intrinsic reward besides the goal of the activity