Potential Insights

The Pains of Thinking

This morning, on my commute to work, my brain decided to suddenly think hard about a problem. And in that instant my brain started to feel like it was frying. I don't remember the problem at hand, I just remember the sensation is caused.

Usually, when experiencing this sensation of my brain frying, I would typically just stop thinking about the problem at hand and writhe in stress instead- because I wasn't able to solve the problem. Then I would move on with my life... with the lingering effects of the stress.

Point is, I wish I could delve into these kinds of sensations, like the brain frying sensation, and get a better grasp of what was going on. I want to say that what I was feeling was my neurons going 'haywire' or something to that effect as they chaotically try to mash up a solution to a problem I didn't understand very well/didn't have enough information on.

It'd be cool if we had an innate ability to introspect our brains better. But I guess I am left with a long road of tiresome attempts at getting better at it. Which is fine I guess :)