Where do thoughts come from

[anagogy]

I don't know if someone made this thread already, but were does everyone think our thoughts come from. is it nothingness

A thought is a focus of consciousness.  Since location is an illusion, an imaginary construct (a thought, also, if you will), they cannot come from some "where".

Now, it seems like a lot of our thoughts are random, and simply spring into our conscious minds, but they are not actually random (you could argue that the very first thoughts were indeed random).  It is simply unconsciously potentiated patterns from thinking thousands and thousands of thought loops that are triggered by our dominant associations.  You encounter thousands of these triggers a day, which spurs on one of your thousands of potentiated patterns of thoughts.  These patterns are changed at the behest of will, where you deliberately focus and attempt to distill new thoughts, which then potentiate new unconscious patterns to be triggered in the future.  

Think of a field of grain, and imagine walking through that field of grain.  The first time you walk through that field of grain, it is difficult, the grain is in your way and it requires effort to trample it down and make a path through it.  The next time you travel through the field it is easier, if you simply travel upon the same path you made last time.  If you want to forge new pathways through the field, you will encounter similar difficulty as the first time, except, where your new path crosses the old one.  If you don't use one of the paths for a significant period of time, the grain begins to grow over them again, making it difficult.  The pathways through the grain are like the unconsciously potentiated patterns (it is easier to think these thoughts, because you have practiced them, and thereby made them efficient and easy to follow), and your conscious thoughts are like where you currently are in the grain field.  The grain field itself, with you in it somewhere, is like your entire field of consciousness (both conscious and unconscious).  And I guess your higher self could be like somebody sitting up on a hill looking at the entire grain field, with you in it, at once (shouting down directions to you about where you are in relationship to where you want to go).