Is it possible to have an original thought?

Many of our thoughts are reactions to a singular external stimuli e.g. You see a flower and you might think "pink" or "beautiful." You see the ocean and might think "vast" or "moving."
Some thoughts are more complex and are reactions to memories of external stimuli and combined with other memories e.g. "Imagine an ocean made up entirely of undulating flowers."
But what about an original thought? A thought that's not a reaction to any external event or object. Is it possible to form a thought from nothing?

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CursedOne · 41-45, M

In other word is it possible to have thought that is not even remotely related to the any sort/form of knowledge possessed by you in the past.. and the answer is NO, such state of mind is called deep meditation or salvation in some spiritual practices.. its very different state of mind

Magnolia · 31-35, F

I had a very strange out of body experience once but I didn't have any new thoughts, I had an absence of all thought which was the most interesting experience of my life.

CursedOne · 41-45, M

@Magnolia: This is somewhat interesting... but did you experienced absence of all thoughts or when you came back to normal body and felt like you were absent at all (yet did exist at the same time) is really matters because it is possible to achieve such separate conscious existence while being in human body...

Never mind I may not phrase it correctly

Magnolia · 31-35, F

I'll explain what happened. I was sitting down on the floor, doing much of nothing when I saw this white doorway in my mind. For some reason it really shocked me and instantly I felt myself shoot up into the sky. I was sitting in some white place with this person that was the opposite of myself (I don't know how else to explain that) and I had no thoughts. It was just silent in my mind but i could look down and see myself really far away sitting in the living room.
When I came back down I felt this incredible sense of peace and felt like I had spent my entire life dreaming... I could go on but that's the basic gist of it.

CursedOne · 41-45, M

@Magnolia: YOU ARE LUCKY or may be gifted one.

Magnolia · 31-35, F

@CursedOne: I feel that I'm lucky. It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me. I felt like I could discount everything that's happened in my life and say it was a dream but this experience was real. It was more real than what I'm feeling now.

CursedOne · 41-45, M

@Magnolia: You should conduct some spiritual practices that you may find interesting, I am sure future holds something good for you with it. Glad to meet you online.

Magnolia · 31-35, F

Thank you! I have met a handful of people who know what I'm talking about. The most interesting was this one elderly woman who a family friend put me in contact with. I went over to her house and.. This sounds weird. We spoke for a few hours but we weren't actually saying anything. We both had this experience and it's like we were talking telepathically. I love science and I'm aware that a scientist would disregard that story but it happened to me. I'll write more stories on my profile about these experiences if you're interested in reading them some time.

CursedOne · 41-45, M

@Magnolia: Sure why not. I am a tech guy by profession but I am a deep admirer of such experiences. This is amazing.

Magnolia · 31-35, F

I am also studying tech :)