Incoherent thought process —

Some times, decades old incidences too work as thought provoking element when it flashes back into the memory. In this context, I happened to reminisced  a not so important incidence of my post college life. We three friends planned to watch a movie. In fact, it was like a treat given by one of the senior most friends.Obviously, we chose for a Hindi movie in which main lead hero was a super star of that time. The name of the super star was enough to convince us that  movie was supposed to be a good one at least.

Well, with a great curiosity, we watched the movie. It was a bitter disappointing experience to watch the movie, since movie was a disaster. On coming out of the hall after the show, I asked the “very’ question that kept nagging me whole through the entire show, ” bro, tell me one thing. Was there some story depicted in the movie? If yes, then what were the contents of that?” The senior most friend who had lost his money in this vague adventure was a man of wit and humor. He responded in his own jovial mood, ” of course, film had had a story. No doubt good performance by the super star also but it lacked a big thing.”

“What was that lacking thing bro? I didn’t find any story in the movie.” I cut him short. He replied, ” look, at the beginning of the movie, a certificate by the Film Censor Board was displayed. In that certificate, the length of the movie was manifested as of eighteen reels.”

“Yes! We all saw that. ” I assented.

“That is exactly where the mistake was made. There was mistake in editing of the movie.” Friend said staidly. “How come?” I argued.

He in his own way said, “Look, in fact what happened. In editing the reels of movie been placed incoherently. Just, where reels of movie should have been adjusted in a sequence properly, frame after frame, that was not done. The placement of reels should have been as first reel then second reel then third reel then fourth and so on. But it seems to me, in editing, after first reel, the seventh reel was added and after that second reel of film came and after that eleventh reel. I mean, everything was incoherently adjusted. Hence we couldn’t draw an inference about the contents of the story in the movie.”   The friend expatiated the entire situation staidly but in hidden satirical way, that made us roll laughing on the floor.

On today, when this incidence recalled to the memory, it made flash the term “incoherence” into the mind. Incoherence, in itself carries some connotations, that are near to disorganization, disarrangement, mess, desultory, inconsistence, not logical or lack of connection etc. The human mind in its conscious condition keeps on summoning a big deal of thoughts incessantly. As per medical science research, every day about sixty thousand thoughts visit our mind. And this all occurs in an “incoherent way.”  Not all these thoughts are related at all in some context with one another.

This is an “incoherent thought process” that ever takes place in our mind and generally we are not aware of that. It’s akin to the “throbbing of heart,” we don’t care, until and unless some health issue related to the heart we begin to suffer from. But, as a habit, during this “incoherent thought process,” we randomly pick some thoughts which are analogous to one another. Then we try to connect all those thoughts in shape of a “chain.”  Now, the output we find in this way becomes “coherent thought,” that we give the name of idea or plan.

It’s similar to the paradigm. At some times, a thought incoherently suggest you, ” you should opt for some business.” The next antithesis suggests, ” No! I am not capable of doing some business. I should opt for some job.” Then next incoherent thought suggests, “man, today is Sunday. Enjoy the day.” Now entire thought process is diverted towards the entertainment. After some hours whiling in entertainment, a thought generates, ” boy, I am a good cook, if I start  a food restaurant, it can work.” The next suggestion comes, ” Oh no! my family won’t permit me doing this sort of business.” Now this thought subsides and new thoughts are mushrooming up about some thing different like premier league cricket match.

After some days, the same thought of business emerges with a little bit determination, then disrupts. In next many days to come, the same thought incoherently keeps on flashing in mind. Some times, It was in context to finance needed to run the business, next time for the chosen place to run the business. Always all these incoherent thoughts  were ephemeral and overlapped by some other distinct , different thoughts in natural way. And on one day, all these thoughts of running a business, which were summoning up occasionally and incoherently, they get “synchronized” in a concrete shape and you initiates your own business.

It felt to us, it was a series of thoughts. No! It was not!It was an ” incoherent process of thoughts.” Hence, it took so long to get organize and synchronized. The “incoherent thought process” give a “coherent out put”. With another instance, I expatiate it. The “plot” of a big novel at the initial stage always consists of a few lines only. But by traversing through the incoherent thought process, it comes out in shape of a voluminous book. Further, look at some mysterious murder case. Apparently, it seems impossible to be solved. But an efficient investigator, firstly collects evidences and clues which at the initial stage look “incoherent.” But out of these numbers of incoherent clues, he properly picks the coherent clues and evidences and solve the murder mystery affirmatively.

We often notice a man, lost in himself, talking to himself in monologue. We at once announce him as a “cynic” or “eccentric” one. But he may be a great thinker, a science scholar busied in combating with his incoherent thought process, trying to extract out some “coherent” output. These types of persons are given to amaze the world by producing some theory, thesis or invention by going through this incoherent thought process.

In contradiction to above said thought process, “coherent” things we find lucid; forgetting the fact, its present form is an outcome in shape of coherent by going through incoherent thought process only. This “coherent” thing or element is now recognized as a “law or perception.” To justify it, another paradigm we may take of football. When a football was supposed to get invented, in its first usage, people simply would have kicked it off hither and thither and kept chasing it in that drive of kicking it off endlessly for the sake of entertainment. Most probably, it might have been the “first format of usage” of foot ball. Later on, kicking it off and chasing might have lost its attraction, since it had no concrete purpose of the sport.

Then, out of that “disorganized purpose (Incoherent one)”, a coherent or organized rule or regulations might be supposed to erupt about having two goal posts, two teams, number of players in every team, the size of play ground and so many things. An organized, logical and consistent format only had been an out come of previous incoherent or disorganized and inconsistent chasing and kicking off the football for a long time.

Another example, that is also fictional but near to the reality. When road was constructed in the primitive stage then there was no traffic sense. Every one was walking on his chosen side as per his whim. But with the passing of time, some coherent laws were drawn out of the incoherent experiences. In this world, when ever a new thought, idea or invention takes place, that certainly is an out come of “incoherent thought process” which after wards declared in shape of “coherent” one. Penned by — Vinay Pharasi —