Mind blanking, when the mind temporarily goes blank, is a distinct, common mental state influenced by attention, arousal, and brain activity patterns. Mind blanking is a common but poorly defined ...

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A new study reveals that when your mind goes blank, your brain isn’t idle but enters a "local sleep" state, showing sleep-like waves and reduced complexity. Researchers found that mind blanking ...

If your mind goes blank occasionally, you're not unusual, your brain is likely taking a brief break, entering a neural state scientists are just starting to understand. Canada votes in an election ...

“When he thinks about his kids…I cannot help but see ‘barrel’ as a leak… The linguistic association between oil, tanks, and barrels I think permeated into his mind and then leaked out of ...

Well, there’s a new study that can tell you what’s going on when this happens and it's pretty weird. “My mind has gone blank” is a phrase you’ve probably heard of, and you might have even said a good ...

As they describe it, this means that when the brain is in a high- or low-arousal state, a mind blank is more likely to occur. “The experience of a 'blank mind' is as intimate and direct as that ...

Your mind, it seems, just went blank. “The experience of a ‘blank mind’ is as intimate and direct as that of bearing thoughts,” co-author Jennifer Windt of Monash University said in a recent statement ...