As a guy who primarily lives inside his own head, life becomes quite weird without the usual whirring of ideas around my brain. The reason I like quiet so much is because there is usually plenty of noise in my head which gives me plenty of entertainment. With no internal noise today I am so bored. Mostly with myself. I feel like I am probably experiencing myself as most people usually experience me!
For whatever reason it seems like there are just some days where our brain functions never quite get on-board. My wife would probably suggest that that is typical for me but lets ignore it for a while and pretend that I am usually a mindful, attentive-to-detail, doesn't-lose-his-wallet kind of guy.
But today my brain has been stuck. Writers aren't the only ones who have trouble doing the things they need or want to do. Writer's block is simply a contextualized name for a very human experience. My own writer's block (which I am working through as you read this) got me thinking about those times where our neurons just don't cooperate the way we'd like. There is actually some extensive and creative vocabulary dedicated to the moments where our brains fail us:
- brain farts
- not firing on all cylinders
- mental hiccups
- senior moments
- highway hypnosis
- "its on the tip of my tongue"
- mental constipation
- brain cramps
- drawing a blank
- coming up empty
We could probably keep the list going with our personal favorites. So, what to do with this flatulence of my faculties, this whoopee cushion of wit?
What do you call those mental lapses? How do you handle them? For me today, I wrote a blog post not at all related to gastrointestinal issues and still managed to use the words fart, flatulence, constipation, and cramps and that seemed to work for me.
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