Re: Automatic writing?
The interesting thing about automatic writing IMO is hand writing. I just do my thing with notes, thoughts, mind burps, errand lists, work-related reminders, research ideas, work, cards ... whatever.
When I look at my own handwriting on all the (mind) tasks, when/if I do, it's like holy f- that 't' is my dad's 't' there! Or Aw that must have been special I went calligraphy on that one, like my grade 3 teacher will be checking it (she's dead). Then I might see someone's P or Q on paper somewhere and incorporate it, 'cause I like it, or after a hundredth person has told me oh I thought it was an h, I change my h to a legible h. It's very fluid.
In the course of a day, all the life influences are here with me. It's useful though, because the type of handwriting jogs me back to the state of mind, if I need to check. Maybe I was scared, super happy, on rote mode, ... It's emotional IMO and great for inner reflection, like... jeezuz what's going on in there! Mostly, I don't have the time and/or don't care. Non-dominant hand experimental (my left) journals are yet another story.
Even keyboarding is interesting. We use both hands to type, and maybe this has something to do with our left-right mind 'bridges' evolving into something different now. As is, illiteracy. Illiterate cultures are more communal and/or agrarian.
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