Crossing Cognition began out of a desire to express what intrusive thoughts feel like, as I get many intrusive thoughts. This piece features many extremely sudden style and dynamic changes, similar to the sporadic nature of intrusive thoughts. There are also a handful of pauses, which are like taking a deep breath, and attempting to calm down. Uses of odd meter symbolize the mind thinking faster than it can process, thinking distressing thought after distressing thought at a rapid pace. This piece concludes with an elongated period of building up to a huge fortississimo scream. This is followed by a dainty, more light hearted ending, as though a cute and fun lil’ intrusive thought had entered the mind.