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scenarios much faster than optimistic ones

Why the mind produces catastrophic

The moment you realise the thought you’re proud of is actually a cliché

Are very fast thinkers usually less accurate or just less self-censoring?

Thinking about people who are currently

Why revenge fantasies are so much more detailed than forgiveness fantasies

The speed difference between visual imagination and verbal inner speech

disorder or a signal worth listening to?

Is jealousy mostly a thought-

Thoughts you only allow yourself when you’re extremely tired

The erotic quality of certain abstract ideas

Can you train yourself to recognise a thought before it fully crystallises?

“I think therefore I am” but almost never “I feel therefore I am”?

Why do people say

The feeling of “this thought is dangerous to think all the way through”

Are most deep thoughts just shallower thoughts that survived longer?

Thinking the same 6–8 life questions in an endless loop for decades

The phenomenology of suddenly remembering a name at 3:37 a.m.

Is a wandering mind mostly searching for threats or searching for novelty?

Why do forbidden / taboo thoughts often feel the most vivid?

Thoughts that feel like they come from behind your head instead of inside it

The relationship between rumination and a sense of moral superiority

Is overthinking a personality trait or a nervous-system setting?

Think about nothing” for more than ~4 seconds?

Can you actually “

Embarrassing moments from 7–15 years ago?

Why does the mind keep replaying

The most uncomfortable thought possible

The strange pleasure of deliberately thinking

which is older evolutionarily?

Thinking in images vs thinking in words —

they more like uninvited guests?

Are intrusive thoughts “ours” or are

you would be embarrassed to say out loud

you would be embarrassed to say out loud

The percentage of thoughts

how much is even possible?

Thought without language —

things that cannot be changed?

Why do humans think so much about

what actually happens?

The exact moment a new thought feels “original” —

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