Cycling thoughts

The gesture of 'mental writing' while cycling. 

Mental writing means to output one's thoughts from the world of ideas, the boundary between the public and the private, the individual and the external world, in any kind of way, as long as it is an output, an expression.
An expression can be to speak, to write, to draw, to sing, to improvise, to put somewhere out in the world.

While one cycles, the body is occupied by doing a movement, the nervous system is occupied monitoring this gesture, going in circles and circuits, repetitive movements, at the same time, monitoring the environment, observing others' movements and keeping some alert for surprises.

The continuous movement of the wheel going round is a meditative act for the mind and then the rhythm of thought becomes regulated by it, and the output comes more balanced.
If one tries to write, with pen and paper, or on a keyboard with the output on the screen, there are different patters observed in the coordination.

It may be the eye-hand coordination and why to constrain it in just those two and not include the brain itself. The mind works in mysterious ways, and one of these is to follow the repetitive movement of the bike's wheels, while outputing spontaneous automatic thoughts who someone would call mumbling, rambling, burbling.

Similar patterns can be observed in automatic writing, if one could write on a bike.
Worth to notice is the speed of speech that becomes lower than usual, and the tempo. There is certainly a tempo to be observed and the speed of speech becomes low enough so that the thoughts can flow without being crowded altogether and the memory can handle, so that there's no interruption as there would be if one just stands and talks, as one writes and talks..

Important detail is the mean of artificial memory. The recording method. Recording sound. Listening to sound. Talking and recording. VS Thinking and Writing. Too hard for a mind. The mind needs some movement to perform well. Or better, not the mind but the output unit of it. The memory, as well.

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