Mmen of reddit, How do you shut down your brain and think about nothing?

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1. Drugs. Expensive and dangerous combinations of drugs and distractions.

   It works, but it’s not the best advice.

2. No tv, no phone, just sit in a chair with no resources to entertain yourself.

3. Solve all your problems so you have no worries gnawing at the back of your subconscious. That peace at the end of that is the closest you will come since you can always ask yourself “now what?”.

4. For me I just put on some quiet music and don’t have any electronics there to distract me and just close my eyes and it just shuts off

5. Just press that little button behind your right ear. Duh

6. that’s literally what meditation is for. it’s not especially difficult, but it does take a little willpower to briefly shift gears from whatever mental pattern you’re in, and start meditating.

   there are a ton of different ways to meditate, and even apps for it; pick whatever works for you.

   i’m too lazy to meditate in a very structured way. I just relax my body and pay extra close attention to my breathing for about 5 minutes.

7. It’s real easy. Doing it right now.

8. It’s not always nothing. As someone with ADHD, I frequently zone out and daydream about a lot of different and strange things. Sometime I go on long tangents because one thing made me think about another thing. When someone asks me what I’m thinking about and I answer “nothing,” what I really mean to say is “nothing important” or “nothing worth talking about because my train of thought is weird”

9. I don’t, there always is some nonsense to think about.

10. Just sit and look at nothing

11. Go on vacation, camping, dinner and hang out with family or friends, party or club/bar, sports, gym

12. Just flip the switch

13. One dot on a wall does the trick

14. Fall asleep. Or get extremely tired. Otherwise it’s a never-ending stream of thoughts.

15. Get comfortable and take a deep breath. Hope this helps

16. The worst thing you can do is try not to think. Just close your eyes and watch your thoughts.

17. We just do.

18. Feeling real sad does that to me.

19. I work and poof, brains exhausted.

20. I just do. Its easy. Start by just putting everything into perspective. Everything is pointless and meaningless in reality. If you died right now you yourself would no longer care about anything. So once you realize how petty arguing, debating, money, people, jobs, are just pointless you can finally not worry about anything. With that, just sit back and think about nothing.

21. I didn’t know that was an option

22. Can’t, ADHD + giftedness = brain full, many thoughts

    Like yelling to yourself in images by 3 daedric princes that wants you to burn in your thoughts

    Its a super power that sometimes let you feel both of your fingers when you’re snapping and overwhelm yourself. Sometimes I just start feeling my clothes like if i felt them with my hands, very unpleasant, makes me want to take my clothes off. Other time it lets me find the answer to a math test in one, correct, mathematical sentence tho, wich is nice cause now its a test for the teacher. I became self aware at the age of 4, not great. But it made me very kind because i think so fast i can explain to myself that people all have their difficulties and they know differently. If you have questions ask, i have too many things i want to write now and they’re gonna start making less sense because they would be on top of each other… I need to learn how to write 2 different things at the same time lol