I have a question.... Is it possible to become dumb?

Yes.

 

I think you're experiencing burn out. It happens. You're not dumb, probably just stressed and tired.

 

I would say yes it is. There could be a lot of reasons from mental laziness, to fatigue to depression, to ummm a head injury, and yes doing drugs can also do that.

You can reverse most of those things though.

 

Don't panic lots of people go through varying levels of mental acuity it doesn't mean there is anything wrong with you.

Or at least it doesn't mean amnesia.

 

You asked this already. In this thread.

 

Are you getting enough sleep? Seriously.

If you are chronically sleep deprived, it messes with your brain powerfully. Teenagers actually need more sleep than adults, too -- something like 9 hours, I think. Also, chronic stress (I understand from previous posts your situation can be stressful.) But you may need more sleep than you are getting; your memory and brain function so much worse on not enough sleep. I've been through periods of sleep deprivation where I could hardly remember my own name.

(And yeah, drugs, alcohol, etc., obviously, affect your brain.)

 

No, you are not getting enough sleep, and you are under a lot of stress. Poor baby. It's a wonder you can think at all!

You probably are not eating quite enough, either, though what you are eating sounds very healthy. You are probably spending too much energy worrying about school, grades.... who knows what else... and that sort of thing does sap your energy, so you have less left over for memory, learning, etc.

Also, you have to make sure you're getting enough B vitamins and iron, or you brain and nervous system will not function as well -- also, fish oil is a great supplement for memory as well as mood. I'm not a nutritionist, but I do know your brain is not going to function as well if it is being starved.

How about a week at a spa, no homework, no studying, no doing anything except having people catering to your every whim and ensuring you are being totally taken care of? (Sign me up for that too!!!!)

 

You could also be getting older a little, I know my imagination was all I had when I was a preteen, I was always in fantasy land, my teen years were all about fantasy, and emotions... lots and lots and lots of emotions. Now as I am almost 30, its fantasy, emotions emotions emotions and precision/logic. The new thing my mind is doing is that its becoming incredibly logic based, it rips things apart and organizes it into a system, I can put this to use on any "fantasy" or abstract based thoughts and feelings generally. Concrete example is how I organize friendship inside my mind, it used to be about emotions, now its so much more its a huge abstract concept thats seen from differnt angles and perspectives, when I put it into this like little model inside my head its almost like a game, I start finding ways to make moves in advance, like getting better at chess. Instead of losing all your pawns you start organizing them into strategies but only because you can see them all working in tandem with the rest of the pieces and in opposition to your opponents pieces while you are trying to figure out emotionally "what kind of move would he make next because what kind of person is he?"

I dunno its hard to describe...

My belated point is that, they say it takes 10ish years to conquer your cognitive preference. If this is true, then it would explain how I could be so emotionally distant and cool as a child with only flashes of great sensitivity/feelings but always stuck in la la land because I was basically just my Ni preference and my other preferences were still way long to be developed. By the time I was 11 or 12 I became very moody, I started noticing girls, wanting to be normal, wanting to blend into everyone else and not be noticed, just really emotional. If this was the dawning of my figuring out how to use my Fe then that makes sense too, because from around 12 to 26 or so thats who and what I was. I will always prefer to be my Ni over all because its just what has been what I have been for as long as I can remember. But this logic stuff, its still new and I am learning how to do it every day. I listen to logical people I become drawn to them I want to see how they do what they do, this is like a conscious/subconscious thing going on I can tell... But its the counterweight to my paranoid and emotionally fragile core that has developed here to now.

And I am glad, because goddamn I needed it. At the root of it all the logic will never replace how I value and what I value, it will simply offer me new ways to consider things and new data and new insights into concepts affecting me. At the root, essentially I think what the logic development is just my mind giving itself new choices.

Instead of being a slave to my heart and not being able to see whats wrong for me because I am in love with it I can see the naked and practical truth, and it offers me choice, I can stay but I will be aware of my irrationality or I can be rational.

So maybe you arent getting dumber, maybe you just dont need to engage your imagination quite as much or you are moving on to figuring out some new preference.

 

Let's sign Billy up for the spa trip, too, Soulseeker.

(joking!)

Although, to your point, yes, we do learn more about logic and are less ruled by emotions as we get older... our brains change... and that is a good thing! Though I am the wrong person to go on and on about that particular problem since, well, yeah... logic. urgh.

 

I need something done to my face, my skin looks terrible and worn, do they have something for that at this spa?

 

Not really. You can become slower and lazier, though. The brain is kind of like a muscle... if you've been focusing on a lot of repetitive, unimaginative things, your ability to think deeply and imagine tends to weaken.

That has happened to me, but it always comes back if I can find the time to relax, talk to deeper people, focus on my imagination again. When I can't find the time, I'm a terribly boring and empty person.

The same thing happens when learning languages. If you learn a new language, and you go long enough without speaking your native language, you can actually start to forget it. I've heard of this happening.

Of course, once you start speaking it again, it starts coming back to you.

Do you understand the analogy?

 

I'm sure they do, since it is a fictional spa, located on the island of Fiji, where you can have anything done to your skin you want, be fanned with palm fronds, and even have little flowers painted on your big toenails if you find that relaxing. The point is to relax!

I seriously doubt your skin looks terrible and worn, however. You probably only need to relax and get some sleep just as much as Soulseeker does!

 

This will help to loosen up that grey matter.

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Have fun and keep an open mind with this