Can you ever think of nothing?

Answer 1

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Yes, it's a VERY strange feeling, but very hard to do.

Almost as though you don't exist...freaks me out...but it feels amazing, but not, ya know?

It's a feeling of pure bliss, but it lasts only a fraction of a second

Answer 2

all the time

Answer 3

I've tried to but something else always comes into my mind, it's impossible for me!

Answer 4

YES, because I learned how to switch off the constant flow of thoughts... a wonderful feeling, perfect peace, and it allows me to think clearer afterwards.

The method is called "mindfulness", a way of meditating in daily life. It works, it is easy to learn, and it is cheaper than illegal drugs :-)

Answer 5

When I meditate every morning the hardest thing to do is to still the chatter in my mind - but with practise this is possible so that you are not thinking at all, just being.....

Answer 6

when i watch the sky..

Answer 7

I wish I could. That would be a no from me.

Answer 8

I can't but my boyfriend seems to have mastered it!!

Answer 9

happens to me sometimes.

Answer 10

my missus can.
what a genius she is!!!!!!!!

Answer 11

Yes..but that requires conditioning and total concentration.

Answer 12

ya, when i'm asleep . otherwise , mind is a monkey .lol

Answer 13

Whenever I tell myself to think of nothing, I can't do it. I just can't. So I think of endless white and try to keep it that way. It's the best I can do.

Answer 14

Yup ...I think!


Sash ...er, I think!

Answer 15

Well, the only time I think of nothing is when I'm a sleep, even though judging by the dreams I have the mind doesn't switch of. So the answer is no and I would like to.

Answer 16

if i try to think of nothing then i start thinking of the words "think of nothing" then i really try but then i get a flush through my face and the doctors call it a panic attack

when i try to sleep i keep getting these but just as i try to nod off so i think that that is the time when i truely think about nothing

best wishes


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vici

Answer 17

yeah when you're in a pure state of meditation- very difficult to do!

Answer 18

well is kinda hard to becuse thinking of nothing means your thinking of somthing becuse your thinking of nothing and nothing is somthing not nothing and this is makeing no sence but if it makes sence to you YAY and if not sorry hun 8(

Answer 19

No. There are always thoughts in your subconscious, even if you try your hardest not to think in your immedeate conscious state. Your brain is always processing something, a memory, etc. encrypting information into long term memory, brinign up short term memory, w/e you say 30 seconds ago is recycled contantly, so no youc an't.

Answer 20

It's called meditating.

Answer 21

I believe you we are always thinking of something, if I say, "I'm going to think of nothing" then I'm thinking of that nothing I'm not suppose to think... I don't know, it is confusing but I believe that we are always thinking of something, even when we sleep(?)

Answer 22

idk........ i doubt it, ive tried it before and it seems impossible..

Answer 23

yes, you can get into a sleeping like statewhere you are completely focused n thinking of absolutley nothing. Like buddhists do b4 meditating

Answer 24

No, because you would still be thinking about whether or not you can think about nothing.......if that makes sense.

Answer 25

when i meditate

Answer 26

No I cant. I was asking myself this the other morning, my mind races all the time, half of it about rubbish. Like a commentary on my life, I wish I could turn it off.
Only when asleep I stop thinking.

Answer 27

No,its impossible.Because by thinking of nothing you are thinking of something...if that makes any sense.!

Answer 28

uh yeah... it looks and sounds like this in my head...
"nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing "

Answer 29

Using the word 'nothing' means that you have an idea. If you think about your idea of 'nothing', you will change it. Repeatedly thinking about this changing idea will tire your mind (or bore it), but it will also keep you from thinking about anything else. When it is tired enough to stop thinking about the definition, but it has nothing else lined up for consideration, then you will find yourself thinking about nothing.

The tradition of meditating on 'nothing' uses this changing definition as a way of progressing towards a 'pure' understanding of what 'nothing' actually is.

Traditionally, it is understood that you will 'discover' something which seems to be the true nothing several times, and progress to noticing each time that you were wrong; your new 'nothing' was really something, but it seemed like nothing by comparision with the somethings you had been thinking before.

'The meaning of nothing' is one of those meditation questions...

Answer 30

Of course. Thats what us blondes duu best

Answer 31

Of Course!, Just ask any Delta Gamma Girl