Drawing a Blank

Have you ever been thinking about something and then suddenly, the precious little thought that was running through your head is frustratingly GONE! It’s like waking up from a dream and knowing that it was a wonderful dream, but having no idea what about the dream made you so happy.

There are many possible explanations for why these thoughts flee our heads. It could be because you suddenly think of something else on a tangent off of the original thought that drives the original thought out of your head. I was recently working on a group project, and we were trying to cover so many different topics all right after one another that we were getting very confused. A couple of times, one of us would say something that we thought should be included in the paper, and then someone would ask us to repeat the sentence and the recurring response was, “I honestly can’t remember what I just said…What are we talking about again?”

We were trying to do too much too quickly, and it all got jumbled together in one big confused thought. After a while, we would have to take a break because after 6 hours of working with the same group of people, everybody’s brains feel like mush, and mush is really bad at math.