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The brain's way of buffering when reality loads faster than you can process it.
means To be in a stunned, confused state where you can't think clearly, as if your mind briefly stalled out.
from Daze traces back to Middle English 'dasen,' meaning to stupefy or stun, likely borrowed from Old Norse — related to a word meaning weary or exhausted, like being worn down to a dull haze. The same Norse root gave English 'dizzy,' which makes sense: both describe that same wobbly, world-tilted feeling of a mind that's lost its footing.
- not sleep
- eyes open, lights on, nobody fully home
- common cause
- blows to the head, or just Mondays
- etymology
- old norse for weary, borrowed by every hangover since
- opposite state
- alertness, a rumor you heard about once