Skuh-rewed.

Daydreaming linked to Alzheimer's disease.

According to new research, Alzheimer's disease may be due to abnormalities in the regions of the brain that operate the "default state", a term used to describe the cognitive state people defer to when musing, daydreaming, or thinking to themselves.

Holy f*cking shit! This is all I do! I have no higher cognitive function, I assure you!

What are we supposed to do? Gingko? B complex? Omega-3s? MENSA puzzles (at which I would suck, no doubt)? Crosswords? Sudoku? What? Whaaaaat?? I've avoided aluminum the best I can for years. Years.

For my whole life I've looked away, thought something else, mused. I was the kid who would get lost in the grains of the wood while dusting; the pock marks on the pencil point caused by a wobbly sharpener, how that felt bumping against my fingertips when I turned it slowly; the sound a basketball makes when it hits asphalt -- a tinny, wheezy, metallic spring noise that gets more and more unreal (tinniness from rubber? how?) the more times it's heard; the millions of colors in the fur of my honey-colored dog when the light hits her fur just right and pretending, when I'm up close, that each hair is a sliver of petrified wood suspended in amber, not to mention that I could lose a whole afternoon imagining her as a puppy. And, lordy, don't get me near a window. My God, I'll never be able to give this up: thinking back on my travels and how happy they made me to see/think/feel/smell something new. That's just too cruel. I'll just have to take my chances. This dog is too old to learn mental gymnastics.

[Thanks a lot, Cup of Chicha, dang.]

Comments

[Chris Clarke]

Mmmm.... cute puppies.

Er, what were we talking about again?

Forget the MENSA puzzles. Lose-lose scenario. Either you fail, or you succeed and then have to hang out with the MENSAmorphs.

[Pacian]

Oh man, I can't do anything for more than five minutes without my mind wandering somewhere.

T_T

But it's worth pointing out that the idea that the link could be causal is hypothesized - the study doesn't actually give evidence either way for it, from what I've read.

[ae]

Chris, consider it done. No MENSA puzzles for me. Ooooh, shiny. What's that over there?

Glad someone's doing a close reading, Pacian. If it's causal, so many of us are in trouble. If not, muse away! a_a