Affected by many things... governed by several frameworks. Not really that much speculated about, but probaly long understood by the humans and have seen many dwell in retrospection of its tales or be baffled while climbing the tower.

I guess its sorta like alternate personalities, only, not that extreme. You're still you. You still embody the 'you-like' persona and fit into the the shadow of your aura, but you might think slightly or drasticallly differently and do different things. Your reactions would be different. The 'One-Day' story can go on in fiction with characters sticking to a single, predictable (even considering the unpredictable) phase, but those are stories afterall. Life is always different from what one tries to say it is. When the body is exhausted as it goes along, the mind would probaly also be exhausted. But the exhaustion of the mind would be quite different from the the body, it might not stick to a single process, it might not even be a process.

I guess then, there would be no 'normal' state of mind, since the state is usually varied and swayed by time. Not time in itself of course, but rather, the effects that time carry. The usualy few thats always picked on by every psychological variable.... Situation. Circumstance. Past Experience. And thy etcteras. This notion would give a deeper meaning to 'character development' as this gives it a less wholesome picture and a more dimensional object. Its now not painted, its constructed. To take a step down the zonative ladder, and to get a bit more human-orientatied, 'States of Mind' are messed, distorted, retuned or whatever-ed(which is a bit fuzzy over here since the concept of an original state is unknown or unacknowledged) by instances when humans get provoked into a certain emotion. (In this case, 'emotion' considered to be very broad and not limited by science, defination or the English language) For instance, the commonly used 'Moon Theory'. At midnight, when its really late, the moon's gravitational pull on the earth (or something) gets you to be more vunerable in emotions versus the day. (Well something like that....) Theres other cases like when you did something 'in a weak moment' or did an action 'in a moment of folly'. Times when you do something and then when you look back at it, "Why the heck did I do that? Thats was stupid..." Regret. Humans have seemingly sub-conciously tried to solve these simple problems, as in the small scale of correction fluid. The laws that allow a reconsiderment etc.

Then theres those States of Mind that lasts for period of times. I call them 'Seasonal', only they don't go in a cycle. (Well, most don't go in a cycle.) Certain periods when you feel dark and angry? Certain periods when you feel fustrated and sad? Certain periods when you wallop yourself in self-pity? Certain periods when you are in heavy regret? When you are in a pensive moment? When you are hopelessly infactuated? When you are pissed? When you feel energised and holy? When you feel loved? When you feel cared for? Etc. Etc. Etc. Nope, they're not feelings. Look closer. Its a state of mind. When you think that theres this something there, when you're, for some reason, perceiving a certain thought, for some reason holding onto a specific notion, your trapped in a state of mind.

This is worse then the previous concept I had talked about on Spectacles in Breaking into the Identity. Simply because its another variable to add to the chain of human's inpredictablity, rather than a constant take-on, take-off syndrome. Their an long-lasting, always existant curse/blessing of the human race.

Humans. For such simple creatures.... they are so complicated.

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