I voted this up because the associations I had while reading this post were quite vivid.

I've just recently started thinking about the way I think in the way described in this post. Whenever I think about something, there is indeed an activated network of interconnected ideas. Some observations:

• Certain links and nodes are brighter than others due to how frequently I've thought about them before or how much interest I have in them.

• If I understand something well, the links and nodes are easily accessible and don't change very much as I follow them.

• If I don't understand something well, the network keeps shifting and changing while I interact with it.

• Regardless of what I am thinking about, the network is larger than my immediate focus and most of it is vague but I can inspect one link or group of links at a time.