I often think about what-I-am thinking. hahaha.
My most conscious thought is really funny because I'm aware that I'm thinking it every day. And it happens every day. There are a lot of doors in my workplace and as I walk into work I think about the straightest lines from outside to certain places in the building. "If Liz enters through that door and takes a left and I enter through that door and take a right, who would land at this office first? Who would land at that office first?? Who would land at this nurses station first? The dining room first?" (Etc.) But now that's just a silly head conversation that is mandatory because I'm hyper aware that I have that same conversation (different doors) every day while walking to work. (I noticed it when someone asked how I beat them in when parking farther away and I said "I took the straightest line" (and they looked at me like I had 9 heads). So now it's like an inside joke with myself.
Anyway, in general-
Lately I've been thinking about my own mood state a lot because I'm having mood troubles, so it's applicable, but that's not the "norm" I guess. General physical health tends to run in the background a lot. "Now I should take this vitamin and eat that vegetable and go to this class and do that exercise" etc.
Things that I should be doing always run around in the background of my head but then sometimes I'll impulsively act out one of those actions like, I'll be wandering around in a daydreamey, phone calley, wandery, smiley state (normal) and then all of a sudden I'll be like "I'M GOING TO DO THE DISHES!!!" (for some reason the dishes have their own little annoying place in my mind.)
There's a large section for sillyness and randomness and funny images and made up stories. Sometimes the made up images can turn bad though. "WHAT'S THAT SOUND?" (thinks of what the sound could be for a second, flipping through the pages of possibilities) "oh my gosh! there's a rat the size of a skunk in my ceiling!" (Shuts the door.) "It would be fun to just put ziplines all through a big city. Glowing bright ziplines called the "shooting star transport" where someone could travel all around the city from building to building!" "Wouldn't my life be funnier as a cartoon?" "I want to go to Whitney Houston's funeral, or any famous person's funeral, and meet all their friends and see how their funerals are different from funerals in my family!" Sometimes before sleep the images get super vivid and I like to specifically watch them like a movie... I think people should do this more, as it seems to pop out without any conscious effort. (Scary demons swirling around in tornadoes and stuff.) Stuff in waking tends to be more related back to something else I was thinking about but stuff before sleep can be really wild, vivid, and random.
A large section of my brain that gets curious and fascinated about the internet once the section of my brain that talks about things I should be doing gets too loud. Wikipedia, youtube, and anything else that is GUARANTEED hours of seeing and learning anything but what relates to my life.
PEOPLE!!!! people, people, people. What are they thinking? What do they think about me? What kind of lives do they lead? What are their goals and hopes and dreams? My friends and family.
Fun things I could do sometime. (I randomly act on those sometimes too but they tend to loom in the background overall.) "I'm doing the dishes and then I'm going to visit my elderly neighbor in rehab with my dog!!) (Drives past the rehab and decides to be at the beach taking pictures.)
A section for more academic topics- Specifically neuroscience. Psychology is starting to sound like a lot of guesswork or common sense, but neuroscience has a lot of answers that we're not really sure of yet. Some short online lectures or amazon books on the topic are perfect as I tend to like to litter it throughout my day without diving into it heavily. I like physics but tend to only like it for my own personal humor purposes. New topics on the web. Medical stuff.
Religion, spirituality, "I should go to church more. I wonder what drives people to go to church so much. It has to be external. I'm like, 'yay! I went to church. Then I'm like, 'wait, God wants me to do this every week? "
Section for reminiscing and vivid memories.
Lots and lots of anxiety about stuff when I get into more negative cycles.
I think this is turning out to be a wall of text. It's hard to quantify everything on my mind completely, as I'm sure it is for everyone else. It usually turns out to be a big mix/ mush or recombination of a lot of these things, though then I become aware of similar and circular thoughts and motivations so end up being somewhat spontaneous and vary it sometimes due to boredom with myself or my own perspective.
(Aka- 'who would I be if there was no internet? who would I be if there was no people? who would I be if there was no music? who would I be if there were no books?') All external things that vary my thoughts greatly. (I decided with out anything I would be like that main character "Powder" from the movie "Powder") Or without something I may replace it with something else external. Or perhaps I would become more linear and motivated and powerful and less inclined to be lazy and be concerned with "Everything Else." Or maybe I could just be in Africa carrying my own water around and hoping for a break.