Discussion Where does your brain spend the most time? The past, the present, the future?

[Forever Sleep]

Have you read Eckart Tolle's 'The Power of Now'? It was a while ago I read it but, one focus is the importance of being present and focussed on the present. Now and again, I'll pause to notice my surroundings, the weather, sensations. I suppose we all run constant checks on our health- how am I feeling today? Does anything hurt? What do I need? I also have to focus on some of the tasks I'm doing.

Asides from that though, my mind wanders about. Memories pop in. Day dreams materialise. I deliberately put on media in the hopes my brain will be occupied with that and work, so won't have time to focus on how unhappy I am.

That's another issue really. What period makes you the most unhappy? Your past, present or future? For me, it's a mixture of all three. I'm generally feeling resentful of the chores I'm going to need to get on with now. I remember for how many decades I've hated them to date and, the future is full of the same!

I suppose my present is better than certain aspects of my past- certainly. That gives me a sense of calm/ gratitude. But, certain elements of my past threaten to re-emerge so- that threat never really leaves. I suppose that's why suicide appeals- it simply stops all three time periods at once- so long as there isn't an afterlife.

 

[Pluto]

 

[CutToRelease]

The present. I cant remember shit so the past basically don't exist for me. An I got no plans for the future. So yeah im just here till I die or something else happens to me.

 

[Doll Steak]

I sometimes like to think of the future cause its interesting, like what if I lived? what would I experience? what if fuckin, I don't know, world war 3 broke out in 30 years and I'm still kickin? I just like to wonder what I'll miss after death, gives it a sense of realism.

My mind spends all the time in the present, but very frequently does it delve into the past because that is unchangeable and very regretful for me.

 

[hopeless302]

The past. I've been reliving things that happened almost 10 years ago. The present feels like a fog.

 

[Seered Doom]

Brain dissociates. so it spends most time in a void

 

[Vlad Tepes]

The past. I'm haunted every day by all of the horrible things that have happened to me. All the things I never got to experience. Even just seeing happy families and young couples in the street is enough to evoke great jealousy and bring back memories of how miserable those years were for me, how lonely I was, how horrible and dysfunctional my family is. Even just particular words become mentally inseparable from things I have experienced.

 

[cemeteryismyhome]

I've been thinking about this recently. Nowhere. I noticed a few months ago that my past is dying and disappearing. And there is nothing in my future, no plans, no desires, nothing I want to do or fix or change or achieve. Nothing. Zero. It's fascinating and I like it. My past is gone, no longer exists, no longer matters, and is fading from my memory. My future doesn't exist and doesn't matter. I've always thought of the present as a kind of razor thin line where the future becomes the past. So for me, the present doesn't exist either, because it's where the nonexistent meaningless future becomes the nonexistent meaningless past. So at the most fundamental level, I'm already dead and no longer exist.

 

[FoxSauce]

Present- be in the present in a crisis and focus on the now

Past - to remeber all the pain Ive caused to others, my failures and traumatic events.

Future- ill ill ever get to live a full live, be successful or find love. If ill ever be happy.
Whats gonna happen, bad scenarios.