Hey Colin, I enjoyed reading this, head land is definitely a useful paradigm. In fact, it’s so useful that it enables me to share two of my favorite experiences from head land:
1) Two characters in my head land will get into an argument or heated conversation over some point. Usually one of the characters is a future version of myself. What then happens is that one of the characters will make an extremely good point; quasi-irrefutable by the other. The person making the really good point is usually the aforementioned future version of myself. Then the other character will make the rejoinder that this point is irrelevant because this conversation is only happening in my head and is unlikely to ever occur in real life.
2) Two people will be having a conversation in a future scheme, and one of them is me. The conversation is going quite swimmingly, often full of only weakly deflected praise for my character. And then I remark how it is quite odd that this conversation is actually happening because it is exactly the same conversation that I had once envisioned having in my head. And then the other person will say, did you envision me saying this, too? And then I will say, yes.
Sometimes these head land occurrences make me laugh, sometimes they make me sad (because boys don’t cry!). One interesting question is whether people are spending comparatively more time in head land now than at other periods of history, and what the implications would be if the answer is yes.
Hey Colin, I enjoyed reading this, head land is definitely a useful paradigm. In fact, it’s so useful that it enables me to share two of my favorite experiences from head land:
1) Two characters in my head land will get into an argument or heated conversation over some point. Usually one of the characters is a future version of myself. What then happens is that one of the characters will make an extremely good point; quasi-irrefutable by the other. The person making the really good point is usually the aforementioned future version of myself. Then the other character will make the rejoinder that this point is irrelevant because this conversation is only happening in my head and is unlikely to ever occur in real life.
2) Two people will be having a conversation in a future scheme, and one of them is me. The conversation is going quite swimmingly, often full of only weakly deflected praise for my character. And then I remark how it is quite odd that this conversation is actually happening because it is exactly the same conversation that I had once envisioned having in my head. And then the other person will say, did you envision me saying this, too? And then I will say, yes.
Sometimes these head land occurrences make me laugh, sometimes they make me sad (because boys don’t cry!). One interesting question is whether people are spending comparatively more time in head land now than at other periods of history, and what the implications would be if the answer is yes.