You ever let your mind wander a bit, and just momentarily lose yourself while you let silly, random, nonsensical thoughts run through your head? You allow your mind to create a little maze that you meander around in for a moment. But then you snap out of it and go back to whatever it is you were doing. You know that feeling? What if that’s what moderately retarded people thought about all the time. They go into the silly mazes in their mind, but are never able to find a way out.
Would they be aware that they are stuck in a brain maze and can’t find their way out? Would it cause one to feel panicky? What if that’s what your life was like 24/7 and you couldn’t do anything about it! Like getting lost in a corn maze?
That is what my mind is like during a hypomainc episode (slightly manic). It is what my mind is like when I am not hypomanic, in a normal mood, but slightly bothered or pre occupied mood. It is what my mind was like many many years ago when I thought about god or gods plans for me when I was a “slightly” religious person.
So whenever I’m daydreaming I’m actually temporarily retarded?
Well, they’re not so stupid that they can’t visualize spatial construction.
What you are describing is more about being delusional, taking your own thoughts as being more real than reality, than actual stupidity.
You don’t have to be stupid to be delusional, though it may help. Some people can’t face the fact that they are not all that bright and will construct their own narratives of reality to make themselves feel they are actually in the know.
Most of the really stupid people I’ve known(you know like people who had others laughing about them) weren’t stupid per se, when you got to know them better they had real issues that if they were born now in the right place might have been diagnosed with a label.
Real stupid or dull is rare.
Part of the problem is that we don’t have a meaningful definition of “stupid”, or “really stupid”. So you could describe a person who’s got a job as a cleaner for a charity, and can’t follow instructions, because their mind is caught in a maze, as “stupid”.
But normally, that kind of person is described as “really smart, but has problems”. Because the ability to follow mazes in your mind is a characteristic that we call “smart”, and if you have the ability to follow mazes in your mind, that ability tends to show up in odd places, or in your past.
I’ve been caught in mazes in my mind. Not bragging - it made me a lot poorer. Some people definitely equate poorer=stupid.
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Sorry, what were we talking about?
You mean like this guy here? (40 sec video)
Only if the person likes Nascar.
Temporarily?
sorry, it’s not you, it’s the set up
I have moments where I space out and my mind wanders towards basic, stupid thoughts that amuse me, where I’m basically a character from Idiocracy. They’re not really “smart” mazes. It feels stupid, or maybe crazy.
Snarf.
I disagree. Intelligent minds are constantly working and seek new stimuli and don’t like to be idle. This leads to lots of weird day dreaming (especially in a sterile environment like a cube farm or a boring lecture). Another symptom of intelligence is finding connections between two seemingly unrelated subjects. This is the root of a lot of novel language use and creative thinking and invention in general. Stupid people don’t do that because they don’t have the brain power to spare.
A better example of temporary stupidity is when you’ve been awake three days straight and turn into a zombie. You’re aware of your environment but just run on auto-pilot. Your thoughts don’t stray from your immediate surroundings or basic senses.
It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.
[RIGHT]– Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.[/RIGHT]
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(The idea of “Lot’s wife” was frequently associated with schizophrenic catatonia. And “Slaughterhouse Five” is something of a schizophrinic maze.)
What if they aren’t actually the stupid ones?