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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement. -- Charles Darwin
My head felt like it was about to explode. My mind was so jumbled I couldn't control it; leaping in every direction, thoughts I could not have conceived of just a few minutes earlier were dashing through my head so quickly I couldn't even track them all. -- Robert J. Crane
I felt dizzy, as though I were having an out-of-body experience, as though I were looking out at myself -- Paula Hawkins
That's called terror. Its confusion and a little paranoia and a nice big dose of panic. -- Jonathan Mayberry
My brain didn't seem to want to conform itself to the task at hand and kept wandering to stupid things like a compulsion to line up all the blue M&Ms or count how many times the word "to" appeared in the "To be or not to be" speech (fifteen, as it turns out). -- E.e. Holmes
ANIENTED (A'NIENTED) adj.[anneantir, Fr.]Frustrated; brought to nothing. -- Samuel Johnson
The incomprehension is when the thing happens without knowing the reasons. -- Adele Mandez
Mind easily mesmerized when frightened. -- Toba Beta
My thoughts were a jumble.
I experienced the world in bewildering fragments and flashes. -- Darren Shan
A feeling of loss of control over your own life and a nagging feeling of What am I missing? -- Edward M. Hallowell
All of a sudden, she was enveloped by a kind of vertigo
she had felt this sensation before, though she could not remember when. It was a feeling of being not herself, of being trapped in the wrong body, as if she had recently been miscast in a play that was her own life. -- Reif Larsen
There was a dense fog in my brain,impenetrable to any coherent thought,except the dull obsession of counting the minutes - an aching state of semi concsiousness and numb idiocy. -- Arthur Koestler
The Feeling Being -- George Jelinek
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I. -- Lorenz Hart
I felt oddly restless and dislocated. I missed having a reason to get up early, a purpose to my day. It -- Jojo Moyes
The death of an illusion tends to disconcert. -- Roger Zelazny
A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind. -- John Dryden
Startled from a bad dream, or perhaps still in one... -- Courtney Maum
He was suffering from the loss of an illusion. -- Rafael Sabatini
Did not at first give vague disappointment, a confounding of reality, a disenchantment of contrast with what the mind had conceived. -- Zane Grey
In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him -- Frances Ridley Havergal
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality. -- Carlos Castaneda
Unnerved, the nerve, you're nervous, nervous that I'm right. -- Sara Quin
There are few things as unsettling as a lack of control in an unfamiliar situation. -- Becky Chambers
Structural dissociation occurs during confrontations with overwhelming events when mental efficiency is too low. -- Onno Van Der Hart
progrestination: wandering sideways through the to-do list..and finding interesting distractions from the main goal. -- Teri J. Dluznieski M.ed.
The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused. -- Chin-Ning Chu
The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor. -- Tony Hoagland
I feel fuzzy, like there's something slowing my thinking. It's horrifying, this fuzziness, because right now is when I have to be sharp, to think more clearly than ever before. I'm scared. I think this is what it feels like to go mad: to not know whether you can trust your own thoughts. -- Steven Schlozman
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion. -- Albert Einstein
Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. -- Oswald Chambers
The war existing between the senses and reason. -- Blaise Pascal
As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck. -- Greg Carlson
All of your brain cells rotting from weed, feeling like if you ain't got it life's not as complete. -- Hopsin
Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions. -- Mason Cooley
an agony of humiliated indecision -- Aldous Huxley
I had the unsettling feeling that I had been completely mistaken as to the very nature of the world I was in, as if every part was something wildly different from what it appeared to be ... -- Robert A. Heinlein
immersed in a seemingly never-ending stream of thoughts, coming willy-nilly one after another in rapid succession. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Knowing that what's in your head might not be right - but not having any idea how to fix it. -- Rachel Van Dyken
We all take leave of our senses, from time to time ... -- Bryan A. Garner
A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character. -- William Morris
my mind slipped out from under me. -- Ben H. Winters
You baffle me, addle me, drive me insane.
You muddle, befuddle, and rattle my brain.
My senses are mad,
Skewed judgment to blame.
You drive me half stark-raving bonkers!
(But the truly crazy thing is how I love it.) -- Richelle E. Goodrich
All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place. -- Plato
false consciousness: -- Anonymous
The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place. -- Samuel Johnson
Do not rummage through your thought's drawer because you will be ever more disorientated than they are. -- Sorin Cerin
The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance. -- Flora Rheta Schreiber
But lulled into such an opium-like listlessness of vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity; -- Herman Melville
At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void. -- Fernando Pessoa
Affective reactions resulting from fascination are dangerous; they amount to an invasion by the unconscious. -- Erich Neumann
Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all. -- The Edge
She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it had time to make sense, by the word that came next; so that in the end she did not know what had been said. It was like difficult music heard for the first time. -- Samuel Beckett
Strange / to wish wishes no longer. / Strange / to see things / that seemed to / belong together / floating in every / direction. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Sometimes my mind wanders; other times it leaves completely -- Anonymous
Slowly the darkness began to weave its way into my mind, and before long I was hopelessly out of control. I could not follow the path of my own thoughts. Sentences flew around in my head and fragmented first into phrases and then words; finally, only sounds remained. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning
At times I suffered from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me. I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. -- H.g.wells
While you were anesthetized to the tragedy of life you were able to survive. When clarity was returned to you, when it was painstakingly restored, it could drive you mad. -- Salman Rushdie
There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry or answers that cell phone, and all of a sudden we don't exist. The word is 'pizzled': it's a combination of puzzled and pissed off. -- Daniel Goleman
I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it. -- Henry David Thoreau
My brain
Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts
There hung a darkness, call it solitude
Or blank desertion. -- William Wordsworth
Misunderstanding ... when the silence is not understood. -- Upasana Banerjee
This feeling of lessening disturbance, coming from within myself, unexpected, was profoundly disturbing. As I sat still, growing less and less alarmed by the situation, I knew that I had to move fast, as fast and as far as I could within this small, cramped house. -- Alexandra Kleeman
Hallucidation: When you think you see something that is there. -- Robert Podgurski
For all your previous understandings, suddenly incoherence feels violent. -- Claudia Rankine
The quiet sense of something lost -- Alfred Tennyson
Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck. -- Mason Cooley
I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies the return of consciousness. -- George Macdonald
Sometimes you feel things so much, so intensely, it becomes a new kind of numbness, the oblivion of overstimulation. -- Leah Raeder
Confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head. -- Abraham Lincoln
The being struck dumb. It's like some combination of invisibility and being buried alive, in terms of the feeling. It's like being strangled somewhere deeper inside you than your neck. -- David Foster Wallace
Hypnotized
I am hypnotized
Sleepwalking to the rhythm of your words,
Never wishing to wake- -- Michael Faudet
The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe. -- Albert Camus
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom', -- Sarah Bakewell
How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30) -- Craig Silvey
Problems are perceptual illusions. -- Debasish Mridha
This thing that bewilders the intellect utterly quiets the heart: -- G.k. Chesterton
It's an uncomfortable moment when you realize that there is a crazy person in the room and it's you. -- Ruth Cardello
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. -- Blaise Pascal
I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling. -- Haruki Murakami
Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters - even to the very belief in life. -- Anne Perry
Insomnia, from the Greek word meaning I can't fucking sleep! -- Billy Crystal
The feeling of not being understood and of not understanding the world is no mere accompaniment of first passion, but its sole non-accidental cause. And the passion itself is a panic-stricken flight in which being together with the other means only a doubled solitude. -- Robert Musil
Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live. -- Paul Brunton
It's like being intoxicated with inertia, drunk but with no enjoyment in the drinking or in the drunkenness. -- Fernando Pessoa
Space-the illusion that one is getting somewhere. -- Marty Rubin
my brain started misbehaving, and -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Consciousness of unconsciousness -- Philip K. Dick
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives. -- William Throsby Bridges
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature: they were a mixture of pain and pleasure, such as I had never before experienced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food; and I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions. -- Mary Shelley
Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock! -- Deeba Salim Irfan
Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time. -- Maxwell Maltz
At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment. -- Lord Chesterfield
It's amazing how effective simple disorientation is as a mechanism for controlling people. -- Mira Grant
Ambiguity distracts the conscious mind. -- Franz Anton Mesmer Ii
Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what. -- Samuel Beckett
What's the feeling to be lost?? What's the feeling to be scared??? -- Deyth Banger
I'm drunk-nonsensical tired out. -- Robert Frost
