Thoughts about thoughts

You know I was sitting down one day pondering over stuff when the oddest thought occured to me: what are thought really? I mean we all know the dictionary definitions, more or less, but what really are they?? I mean how do we relate to it in everyday life?

Thoughts... what are they really? You might think of them as series of electrical pulses speeding across the intricate highway of nerves in the brain. They probably are, but is it possible that they are more than just that? Thoughts are just one of those things that we own and can rarely share with others in its purest form. I mean you might be able to tell someone what you were thinking by describing it but more often than not the interpretation of your description is altered by the other persons perception and thoughts. This is why rumours get more exotic and elaborate as it spreads. It could even reach back to the ears of the person who started it, and be unrecognisable because it has become too warped.

Here's my two cent worth about thoughts. I think thoughts are really elaborate illusions conjured up by our mind. It's a whole collection of sounds, voices, words, pictures and other sensory stimulation that relate to whatever we are thinking about. Yet these stimulations do not exist at that point in time, we just think about it and yet we feel them or at least their imprints. I mean isn't that how you remember a smell or a colour? When we think of the colour red, the first thing that comes to mind is probably the colour itself and sometimes an object that we associate the colour with, maybe a rose or wine. But all the while these objects are only thoughts, they aren't really there, yet we 'see' them. We 'see' the object that isn't really there, yet it isn't the same as seeing the actual object. It feels like you are seeing it yet your aren't. All you are doing is accessing the imprint of the object in your mind, conjuring an image that exists only in your mind, which is all just an elaborate illusion of the mind.