Have you ever found yourself playing a game on your phone, like Candy Crush or Sudoku, for countless hours over a few days? If so, you would notice when you close your eyes or even go out to the street how your brain starts seeing everything through that lens and point of view. People start becoming candies, and when there are two people in a line you are automatically pulling a third person from the side in with your mind to form a set of three. The equations your mind starts producing are similar to the wavelength you have programmed it with the interest you have shown it.

There are some things that are mindful at first, for example playing an instrument, but after a while as the brain is accustomed to it and already learned the ins and outs, when the brain goes into processing mode it will produce interesting connections and tunes on its own. This becomes the wavelength of the mind and it will automatically run with this programming in the background. All it needs is for it to become somewhat mindless in order for it to take off on its own.

We go into processing mode as we stop using the mind, is it when we go to sleep or get into a routine of something repetitive. We already know what to do and how to do it, so now it takes the liberty to wander off. But there is another kind of processing which is even while we are busy with something new. For example, we may be picking up a new class, or choosing a new line of work, the brain will align our previous knowledge with the new ones and try to merge them both. Since the previous knowledge is well understood it will try to find ways to see the new knowledge in the same light.

Think about it this way. We have two roads somewhat parallel to the other, one is of the one........

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