Spring evening

Today was a beautiful spring evening. I was walking home while staring at the clear starry sky and I was thinking to myself. People in the past thought the sky was a globe into which small holes were made. Those holes where the stars and the light they shined was the light of the heaven of God behind the globe. If you told them those are suns thousand times bigger than our sun but also thousand times further away from us, they would probably thought you are a heretic or a madman. It is one of the cases where the common sense leads one astray, the truth being far more magnificent and beyond imaginations, that we base mainly on our mundane human experience from practical life and physics. There is one more idea that came to me after thinking about this. Is the common sense of me thinking these sentences and creating thoughts in my mind also this far from reality as the one people had about stars in the past?

Please try to look away or close your eyes and stop any thought that is in your mind now. When the first thought appeared was it thought by you or something in you thought it? Is thinking something that just happens in us without us doing anything in particular. If we stop thinking the thinking somehow goes on by itself until we somehow engage with that thought or interrupt it somehow.

Who is the person thinking in my mind and writing this sentence that I am watching perform?

When learning a foreign language do we first learn how to speak to others and only later learn to also think in that language? Or is speaking with someone just thinking out loud? There seems to be a kind of gap between articulated thinking and quiet-thinking inside of the mind only.

Does stopping the thinking just mean we cover our ears for some time until we uncover them again like a person that dived into the water for a while and then swam back up again to breath fresh air? Is it so that when we stop thinking we just don't hear the thoughts for a while, as they go on somewhere deeper where we cannot hear them until we turn our ears back to them again.

When I create something I first have a certain thought of it or a plan or an image of how it will look like. But if I am the creator of my own thoughts how come I cannot anticipate what thought while I create next?

Isn't it that all my actions and thoughts lead me to this thought that is going on in my mind now? That would mean any thought is in a way prepared with all the thoughts and experiences coming before it. It is somehow unlocked by them and created out of them. Like a fractal with endless variations on the motive preceding it.

As far as I know there is not any neurological study that would answer the question of thinking in the brain. Is it the brain thinking for itself without the subject interrupting? Is the subject just listening to the thoughts going on? Or is he the creator of the thoughts? Or prehapse they work together in creating the new thoughts, the subject telling the thoughts which way they should force their waters like the banks of a river do. Who is it thinking in my head? Is it me who creates all this thoughts? And if I stop thinking what will keep thinking for me? Is there something going on in the background I simply have no access to? Will I become stupid if I stop thinking?