Current Events > C/D: The ability to "turn your brain off" is a myth

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Hard C for me. Im sure many of you understand this but I figured I would

This notion about people being able to turn their brains off and think about nothing is a myth. This is usually said by women to men. These women usually envy the men they can do it. This scenario of course isnt the only one. You can flip it, women to women, men to men and everything in between.

Anyway, if someone asks a person what they were thinking about and they say nothing, they dont literally mean it. Its just whatever they were thinking about was unimportant/irrelevant to the conversation

Its shocking how many people think that is an actual thing

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im doing it right now tc

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sometimes I really am just thinking about nothing and momentarily zoning out tho

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uh, people dont literally mean cease all brain activity when they say turn your brain off. They mean relax and stop worrying about shit.

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if you turn your brain off you die

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That explains the increasing frequency of blackouts and forgetting stuff.

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Eh... D

its not that you cant - you just have everyone else you cant do that and your quality of life may suffer though so unless youre cool with that I mean >_>

you can certainly tune things out

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There are definitely times I'm not thinking of anything unless my brain is doing it on its own and just not telling me.

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Half US voters turned their brains off when they choose to vote turd in office

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I'm a little different from regular people so no, at least not metaphorically I believe

Literally?

Most people would die,

soooo

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This is a question about culture and language more than one about biology.

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For me, I zone out often too. Im told I just turn my brain off when I do that. I often thought that is what I did until I started thinking more about it. In reality, Im just thinking of something so insignificant that I dismiss it from my mind when Im asked this.

It would be something like... I dont know... why is Tan the most common color? Something like that. It was just something randomly I observed lol.

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I've zoned out to the point I definitely wasnt thinking of anything until being touched multiple times. It's not like I can do it on command, but it happens.

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what the hell are you talking about

do you have any sources to back up your claims?

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D. After a long day of work I can come home and turn on something mindless like wrestling or an action movie and immediately stop thinking about all the stresses of the day (most days, anyway)

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DepreceV2 posted...

This is usually said by women to men. These women usually envy the men they can do it.

Is this some weird disguised incel topic?

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It's easy to turn your brain off. The hard part is turning it back on.

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Turbam posted...

Is this some weird disguised incel topic?

God no. I was trying to bring up something that people understood and even went out of my way after that to make it clear it wasnt

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Bananana posted...

D. After a long day of work I can come home and turn on something mindless like wrestling or an action movie and immediately stop thinking about all the stresses of the day (most days, anyway)

Sure. I understand that and do the same. Im just saying your thoughts shifts to something else. What it shifts to is very irrelevant/not important so you arent very focused on it. Thats all Im saying.

Now if you are saying what I describes = turning your brain off then that is different. I assumed thats what it meant but when I tell some people that what I was thinking about was not important they respond with wishing they can turn their brain off too.

I always found it strange. Maybe Ive misinterpreted this saying the entire time

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D

well it actually happened to me so... *shrugs*

actually humans only turn off 10% of their brains

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There are plenty of ways to turn your brain off. You just can't turn it back on

also, have you ever heard someone saying something so stupid that the only way you could reply was by saying something even stupider? to me it has happened before. lol >_>

You are always thinking even if you are not thinking.

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Choco posted...

actually humans only turn off 10% of their brains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLck7KXhA88

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D, I do it for every work shift

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I can't stop my thoughts but I can often shut off my emotions like a light switch. Not necessarily every emotion, but I can do it with some conscious effort.

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