I couldn’t get through this whole article, but you might enjoy it….
Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle….
Actually, yes, I have this problem a lot lately. I have stacks and stacks of books I’ve been meaning to read, that I can’t get through. Some of them I’ve had for a couple of years now. The only time I really read seems to be when I get totally absorbed in a certain writer’s work, which is rare these days for me.
I used to read voraciously, several books a week. Now I’m lucky to get through one a month.
Sigh.
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There are two causes for this generally, either your diet has changed and perhaps you are drinking something more frequently like Coca Cola which, when not consumed regularly can cause your mind to drift as you start craving the nicotine in the product (commonly mistaken as ADHD) or you could be getting media or inputs that you weren’t subjected to previously and these could range from subliminals on YouTube or your pc screen, through to frequencies being transmitted that you are now subject to (more mobile phone frequencies in your area etc…) or simply more noise from traffic etc… Look around, if you eliminate all the things you can see and prove have changed, start monitoring the frequencies the eyes and ears don’t pick up but fillings and braces etc… do. Good luck
Um, wow. That’s just…. weird. Sorry, I’m just not THAT paranoid, thanks!
I know the feeling. I feel that I’m not as able to concentrate as well as in former years. I’ve been attributing it to age, but I wonder some time if it is the accumulation of chemicals in the foodstuffs, “addatives” as it were. No one has the slightest idea if there are long-term effects of the chemicals they feed us.
We were already stupid. TV did that years ago. Our poor fragmented minds were longing for Google for an eternity before we had idea what it was we wanted.