It’s not easy to hope for something absolutely fantastic to pop into this little mind of mine which I can smoothly fantasize and write about. Sometimes the mind is blank, numb; absolutely nothing flows pass it, something like the ECG monitor that goes with a linear motion when the soul leaves the body (that’s from movies, by the way). I would like to analyze this phenomenon (like a scientist) and term it as ‘mind hibernation.’ Yes, that’s right, humans can hibernate too, especially the mind!
Remember an instance when a person was reciting something intriguing/shocking/ depressing/ joyful to you and you reciprocated with a poker face or maybe with an expression that meant, “I’m just pretending to respond in the way you want me to (based on your narrative expressions) as I really don’t care about it but I do care about your feelings.” The problem is not because you were deaf, but because your mind switch was turned off (not the turn off you are thinking of). Now wait a minute, isn’t this a result of your mind wandering off elsewhere? Probably thinking of something else? Well, my dear friend, there is a significant difference between a mind wandering and a mind hibernating.
When your mind wanders or loiters anywhere other than the present, your mind is under process and highly active but a hibernating mind sends no signal, it’s similar to a factory shutdown. At this point, you tend to think from your heart or gut (or from some valuable organ of your body) and respond like a goof. You may end up getting unpleasant reactions from the speaker/listener maybe with a few foul words too, but hey your mind was switched off, you had no idea what was happening.
So why or when does the mind tend to hibernate? That’s a valid question; let me answer it this way. Can’t you see, how I wrote an article on absolutely nothing (like Jerry Seinfeld says, “This is a show about nothing!”). Obviously, I wasn’t using my mind while penning this down. Maybe, my mind was in fact hibernating. Oh but wait a minute, the joke’s on me if your mind was hibernating while reading this. Wow, get it, Christopher Nolan- Inception style; hibernation while hibernating.
It’s a miracle, if you read this article!
Well written chechi….. Keep writing like this. Your articles are very informative as well as fun to read. Simple language.
Thank you Abhijith! Glad you liked it 🙂 Hope to write more such articles. Let me know if you have any topic that you would like to read about.