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Everyone's mind will wander from time to time. It will do this especially when you are bored/tired. You will start to think about things that are in your life, whether they matter to you or not. When you get older, you will also start to do this too. It is difficult to stop your mind from wandering. The easiest way is to focus on a subject/topic and stay with it. It could be something to think about, or an action you need to do. It is required for you to be concentrating on something to make sure your mind is unable to wander.
It is unfortunate that the mind will wander when you are bored/tired. It is unfortunate because you have a higher possibility to fall asleep when your mind is wandering than when you are concentrating on something. The reason you will fall asleep is because you will be thinking about a multiple of things, which can tire you more. When your mind wanders, it will cause you to think about multiple things at the same time. Such as if you will think about how boring the day is, what you will be doing tomorrow, what you want for Christmas, what you are doing for this weekend, etc. Although everyone thinks about these things once in a while; however when a person's mind wanders it will go onto each of these things a lot more. In other words a wandering mind will allow you to think about this weekend for about a minute then it will suddenly change to what's going on tomorrow within a couple of minutes of the first topic. This will cause the mind to be concentrating on too much at once. It causes you to use up more energy than would you normally would, which causes you to fall asleep.
This can happen during a car ride. If the driver gets bored, his/her mind will start to wander. When driving, this can be deadly. The reason that most people want to have passengers is so his/her mind will not wander when he/she is driving. So having passengers gives the drivers something else to concentrate on, especially if the passenger wants to talk about something. It gives a more sense of security to the driver to have a passenger there, especially on long trips. For a driver like myself, it may be good for me to have a passenger however it's not to for the same reason. It is to slow my driving down. If I am by myself driving I will travel at high speeds, however if I have a passenger that is not comfortable with the high speeds I will slow down.
The mind can be a dangerous thing at times. If a person just watch a movie that had a lot of car chases in it and a person goes for a drive directly afterwards, the mind will have a problem identifying the images it is seeing. Where the mind didn't have enough time to realize that the movie is over, and it is now operating a vehicle, the mind will believe it is still watching the movie. This may cause the mind to disregard things like the speed limit because it doesn't understand that it isn't a movie any more. To help prevent this, the driver needs to go into a really lit-up room. This will cause the eyes of the person to refocus, and the mind of the person to reset itself. The bright lights will do this because they will "snap" the mind out of the "trans" that it was in for the movie. To equal the experience would be to shine a flashlight into a person's eyes for approximately 2 minutes. It will be a little "blinding" however it will reset the mind properly.
When a person is at work, bored out of his/her mind, the mind of the person will wander; there is nothing to stop that from happening. When a person is bored, the mind will wander. It is best to keep a certain amount of control of the mind when it starts to wander. A person can do some multi-tasking to help this along. It is possible to still be bored and be doing multiple things at the same time. For example a person could be typing, painting, and cleaning. Doing these 3 things and still being bored, however doing these things is also giving the mind a less of a chance to wandering because you are actually focusing your mind on those things.
The mind can be just as destructive as anything else in the world. This is true because the imagination that the mind has can bed used in good ways and bad ways. When the mind uses your imagination, it can cause you to not be able to tell what is real and what isn't, especially if you use your imagination a lot. A person can become dependent on his/her imagination. It is usually when a person is classified as nuts (crazy). When his/her imagination seems more real than real-life, other people tend to fear the person. People fear this person because this person cannot be held liable for any wrong doings that he/she may do, due to the imbalance in his/her mind. To use the imagination is a good thing; it shows creativity in the person, however there are limits to everything. The catch is to know your limits without crossing over them.
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