Neha's Notebook

Have you experienced your world suddenly turning pink at the thought of someone, and suddenly turning black at the thought of someone else? It could even be the thought of the same person, in two entirely different scenarios. Only a mere thought can shift the reality of our life from A to Z or from Z to A. Believe it or not, we live in our own universe. We may think otherwise, but we spend our entire lives in the confines of our head. There is a difference between thoughts and reality, yet our brain is the kind of electrochemical organ that cannot distinguish between the two. Whether you think negatively or encounter an actual negative situation, your brain takes both as just the same and generates corresponding negative emotion in both the cases. And not to say this, but our head is a terribly lunatic place. Thoughts are codswallops and flapdoodles rumbling in the space of our head, causing us to feel happy and sad. The thoughts running in our head make us flip characters, feel em...

There is a wedding or special occasion in your family. You are thinking about buying some jewels. And suddenly when you go to the market, your attention catches all the jewellery stores in the market which earlier you didn’t even notice. Everywhere you seem to be seeing jewellery stores. These stores were there earlier too, but earlier you didn’t notice them, earlier your attention was somewhere else, like on the various food joints in the market. But at this moment, your attention is reflecting back to you mainly the jewellery stores. Another example. You are in a crowd of people who are all talking to each other loudly. There is too much noise in the crowd that you can’t hear anything properly. But somewhere in the crowd, someone calls your name. Immediately, your attention drops the noise and gets focused on the direction from which the call of your name is coming. This is a mystery about the phenomenon of attention. There is an enigma in the process of attention that can only b...