It's an interesting topic. It happens to me quite a lot and would love some strategies for mitigating it. When it happens, I just have to move on without whatever info I was trying to recall.
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Meanwhile, I wonder if it has some overlap with various deep meditative states, in which people are willfully attempting to get there.
you know the feeling
I actually don't.
It's when everybody in class says "wake up Jim!" simultaneously, starting with the teacher. Used to happen to a kid I went to school with during like 2nd grade. The teacher was kind of a bitch. The kid grew out of it. I changed the kid's name just in case.
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