Brain-Freeze-d Situations

Whether in an exam hall or in a meeting brain freeze are occasional situations to fall into. It is one of those situations when we seem to forget everything we learned in our life. Sometimes even our own names! 

Now think for an instance that you are with your beloved one, out on a first date, chatting and smiling on various topics, when suddenly you are out of themes to talk about. Yes, the candles are still burning, the violin is still playing and you still got beaten up from your parents last night for not studying, but the brain has freeze-d up! Such an embarrassing situation it becomes that it turns out many times that neither the boy nor the girl has a topic to talk about. They keep staring as if a bulb will shine above someone’s head and they will get the chances to start again. Sadly, that never happens. This is mainly due to the excitement and anxiety that one goes through on their first date.

Perhaps, you are in a very important meeting. One that will give you a pay rise and perhaps on top of that will give you promotion before your disliked so called friendly colleague. You are completely prepared to ace it and even today you went on to say some extra prayers for success; but guess what? You end up just gawking at your slides trying to think what to speak. Wow! Did you forget everything you learned? Or was it never in your head? This is one situation that I guess many hate to get into. The main reason for this is somewhat overconfidence at times, otherwise fear of being dejected. It is painful and the whole hall full of people glaring at you makes it that much tougher.

Then another famous event might be the exam hall. Since this is our best enemy of all time (well for most of us) it is one place to get oneself brain freeze-d very easily. The questions look weird. The sums look huge. History papers turn to calculations of birth and death dates, while math papers turn to pages of antiquity. Whereas, later on you may detect they were rather fairly easy. Sometimes due to strenuous studying and insufficient sleep you might find yourself into such difficult situations. Do not be surprised to discover that even your teachers might look like aliens to you in exam halls. Although after the exam you may find out that you knew all the answers. Alas! It was just a little too late. Better luck next time.  

Did it ever happen that you enter a room for something only to forget what was that something you needed? Moreover, you stand there still looking around your room thinking, “Where am I? is this the maze runner movie?” However, you might end up wasting precious seconds of your life thinking why you arrived at the first place or go away empty handed only to remember it again when it is too late…

Well one of the greatest brain freeze happens when someone is crossing the road and they are confronted with the monstrous machineries which also is driven by the greatest creatures ever created. Usually, the driver drives too fast and the pedestrians crossing the road think of themselves as Usian Bolt. Unfortunately, if they are then in front of the car/bus/truck, they stand still shocked, gaping at it as if they have seen a mythical creature of some kind. Thus the end is disastrous as most of the times the person stands still without even moving an inch as if lightning hit him/her.

On all these situations and many more it is as if the brain has stopped functioning properly and all the clues along with ideas vanish for that instance. This is a complex study in science that is still being researched. Our brain is a paradox itself. It is tough to get to know how it works perfectly, for some secrets perhaps can left untouched!