Thinking about thoughts...

Some interesting exercises & questions for your brain:

• Is the mind in the brain? Or is the brain in the mind? And who is using them?
• Are YOU thinking the thoughts or your brain is firing them?
• If you think that you are thinking your thoughts then you should be able to STOP them at your will for any period of time. Can you do it?
• Can you think who is thinking that the thoughts that you think you are thinking are really not your thoughts?
• Count how many thoughts you think in a minute.
• How many thoughts can you think at a moment simultaneously?
• Can you think what your next thought is going to be?
• How much time do you stay without thoughts between two thoughts? Can you find the time of this ‘gap’? Can you increase this ‘gap’?
• When I am thinking about past, I am in the past. When I am thinking about future, I am in the future. When I am thinking nothing, I am in the eternal present!
• I can observe the thinker within me who is thinking all the time. But then how do I observe the observer who is observing the thinker?
• Who came first, the brain that produced the first thought or the thought that produced the first thinking brain?
• Can you think about something that you have never thought before?
• Can you read following words without firing any thought / picture / memory in your brain? SPIDER MAN WEB FIRE WATER GOD
• If we were to type out each and every thought that we think in our lifetime in a text file, what will be the approximate size of that file and what will be the total word count?
• If all your ‘mental movies with internal dialogues’ happening within your mind for your entire life are to be recorded in a computer, what will be the required hard disk memory size?
• When you think about something, who decides what you are thinking is good or bad?
• Sometimes I think I should do this and immediately I feel I should not do this. Am I alone or someone else is also thinking with me?