Day 34, empty head

I had a bit of an empty head at times earlier this week. Cue the ‘banter’ style jokes about that being normal, yawn. The empty head thing happens occasionally. One of those brief periods of time where even the simplest and most obvious things, the sort of things you’ve done a thousand times before, seem to wrong foot you and cause confusion.

This must be pretty normal, it must cause all sorts of confusion and annoyance for other people. There must always be a proportion of people going through phases like this all the time. Imagine the scale of confusion that this causes in organisations, imagine it on a global scale. What must be the cost of this to us as an organisation or society.

What I’ve done above is make an assumption that this state exists. How could we go about proving that this problem exists, and that it exists objectively at the same time that it appears to exist subjectively. If it does exist objectively is it possible to determine what the causes are, whether the causes are the same thing, and whether it is possible to identify a wide enough common cause that it would be worthwhile to look for a method of managing it or preventing it. Perhaps the wide variation of causes, if that is what it turns out to be, can be managed/handled in a generic way anyway and we don’t need to narrow it down to a specialist, clearly defined treatment.

We could be in danger of medicalising something that is a bog standard element of human behaviour.

My preference to deal with it would be to alter how we think or change an aspect of behaviour or our environment.

e.g. use daylight bulbs, turn the heating down, recite the alphabet backwards, run round the block, go home, have a G & T, have a lovely bitter IPA, sit in the park looking at ducks, do vocal warm ups, go to work, sing, make up songs, tell jokes, swear effusively, have a lie down, juggle, consider the meaningless of existence, cry, eat lots of chocolate, have an onion bhaji, turn the heating up, have another onion bhaji.  I am open to further suggestions.

There is almost certainly research being done into this state of being right now, I just haven’t searched for it in the electronic resources. Maybe I’ll look later.  If you can add any proposed methods for addressing this then please feel free.