What does "brain fog" feel like to you?
What does "brain fog" feel like to you?
OMG, it's incredibly, profoundly difficult to talk about this.
Here you have such a verbally unmatched phenomenon with so much of that weird colliding context and fluctuation in generic communicability that you might as well explain to a 2D entity how the third dimension works.
It is a miracle I even was able to recognize it by name when I first came across it.
In ancient times, it was said that the Persians would debate their ideas once sober and once under the influence in order to align clarity with perspective, and here you have this thing, which sees this and is like "hold my beer", fading in and out like old age, flickering the old internal lights without anyone's planned consent, and misguiding thought navigation.
I cannot speak for everyone, but there are a number of us who will tell you they don't dare write fiction (or nonfiction?) if there isn't absolutely every reason to believe they're in the safe zone, mind's eye, verbal recall, and comprehension (including that of relevance, which already has a relative nature) be damned, further complicated by the "there are different kinds" which ranks it in the realm of "phases", "moodiness", and "DID alters" (my step-step-kids each can attest experience with one of those three).
What does your own mind match it up with?
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For me it feels like complete inability to focus on anything or to recall specific concepts (like not being able to think of a word).
This is a super interesting thread because I wonder if what I'm experiencing is even brain fog at all, or just ADHD. And I also wonder how other folks know when they're feeling brain fog.
Like, do any of you have a test for yourself to know when you're feeling brain fog (or inversely, a test to be sure you're not)?