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i want to apologize for sounding rash just in case i did, it wasn't intended.

maybe we're both approaching this from different perspectives, which is fine, but this is what comes to my mind when i think about stopping thought.

you fall off a swing when you're really young (say five years old), and the swing hits you in the face, requiring you to go to the hospital. fifteen years from then, you have no recollection of that at all, but you're not very fond of swings. sometimes you have bad sleep but you don't relate it to anything because well, everyone has bad sleep sometimes. until, one day, you remember.

now, as a five year old, the experience scared you, and so you stopped thinking about it. the stoppage of thought became a habit and you completely erased it from your memory. or so you thought.

there's a theory that everything is energy - everything within and around us. if this is true, and if our thoughts are energy, then they cannot be stopped or destroyed. (energy cannot be created or destroyed, just transmitted from one source to another) and so, stopping your thoughts just suppresses them, and because they need a release, they find one in your subconsciousness - which can be expressed in a number of ways, dreams just being one of them.

does this make sense? are we talking about the same thing?

how did not  thinking about something work out for you?