Originally posted by Joseph_Stalin
This is absolutely possible. How, do you ask? First off, take a musical mind. Some musically inclined people can think of over 20 instruments simultaneously (I myself can do this). Sure it's a musical thought, but a thought is a thought. *

Now taking this is to account, replace an auditory sense with a visual sense. Perhaps, even both at once. *


It would be very interesting to see a powerful LD-er take on this challenge...

I never said you couldn't have alot of thoughts, In fact the subconscious mind can have billions of them upon millions in any given second. And yes, you could think of 20 instruments and the billions of songs in your head, however its your subconscious mind thats allowing you to do this.

Your conscious experience of it, is what is limited. For instance try listening to two people talking at once. One in the left and one in the right ear. You'll notice that you will have to switch between the two people as fast as you can, because you can only consciously listen to one person at a time. Thats one reason it's unsafe to drive with a cell phone, some people don't have conscious minds on the road, instead its on someone talking.

Now yes your subconscious mind can process multiple people talking at once and drive and talk to someone all at once, but the conscious mind must take one at a time. Unless your letting yourself just say things automatically or have autopilot on, you can't help but only concentrate on a limited number of things in one moment in time.

THe subconscious mind can process those things that have already been done before. For instance when your driving most of it has become habitual and automatic, but when something comes up that hasn't been done before (ie car speeding towards you) you have to conscously make a decision... but your conscoius mind is talking with someone, it takes a moment to switch back to the car heading towards you and then BOOM your in a wreck.

I'm simply saying, you can't be conscious (That is concentrating and being fully aware of something -without it being an automatic or routine thing) of more than around 7 things at a given moment in time... it's simply a limitation.

If your having two LDs then you are being two different entities. You can let the subconscious mind control one when your being conscious of the other. Otherwise concentrating on two entities at one time is just really hard, not too fun, and defeats the purpose.

Here's an interesting excercise to try and expand that conscious mind though: Try to be fully aware of (concentrating on) every sound, sight, feeling, and thoughts going through your head. Odds are you won't be fully consciously aware of all of them in a given moment. You'll find yourself switching between them... sound/something moving/a feeling/ and a thought passing by.

Actually this is really silly, because the conscious mind and subconscious minds are not seperate, they are ONE. Its like the fully conscoius awareness being the lighter end of a color and the darker spectrum of that color being the subscousious. And as you go down the shades the fuctions change from more analytical to more creative. The two are one in the same, the same color, just different shades per say.

As i said before its almost impossible to debate this, because the conscous mind is so undefined... Actually the mind is probably one of the biggest mysteries to man... we know so little about it, so this is just my educated guess.

-Daniel