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Though I have never been a morning person, preferring to spend the first couple hours of my day in a bit of a stupor, today I was even more dazed and confused than usual for reasons unknown. It didn’t help that I’d managed to not leave my usual accoutrements in their customary places — I had to go searching for my shoes, wallet, cellphone AND car keys.

Though I suppose it’s not a technical term, I think we’re all familiar with the notion of the “brain fart”: the inexplicable total loss of memory and cognition that usually hits at EXACTLY the wrong moment. For most of us, brain farts are just temporary glitches, even if they get to be a little too regular as we get older. But, as the always-amusing folks at Mental Floss point out, sometimes a brain fart screws you up for good.

Here’s their list of noted individuals who never quite recovered from a brain fart. (Mostly it’s athletes who psyched themselves out of their A-game, but comedian Robin Williams somehow winds up on the list too.)

Comments:
I call it a “brain cramp.” When I worked at a hospital for the elderly, folks would call them “senior moments” — regardless of the age of the afflicted. I like that term, too, but my 72-year-old mother seems to take it personally.
Posted by shelley [URL] on 06/26/07

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