I experience something similar. Some years back my secretary would see me sitting at my desk doing nothing, and reacted by saying something like: “Don’t you need to work on this problem?” She soon came to realize that my reply “I am” was accurate, and eventually allowed no one to interrupt me when I was in “pondering mood”.
The other type of pondering mood was to “sleep on it.” Countless times I have awakened in the morning with an answer, a plan, or some other resolution to the previous evening’s pondering.
But I’ve never captured either type of pondering on video. I also wonder what a real time MRI might discover?
I experience something similar. Some years back my secretary would see me sitting at my desk doing nothing, and reacted by saying something like: “Don’t you need to work on this problem?” She soon came to realize that my reply “I am” was accurate, and eventually allowed no one to interrupt me when I was in “pondering mood”.
The other type of pondering mood was to “sleep on it.” Countless times I have awakened in the morning with an answer, a plan, or some other resolution to the previous evening’s pondering.
But I’ve never captured either type of pondering on video. I also wonder what a real time MRI might discover?
“Sleep on it. “
Your stalled appearance is no more weird than those who talk out loud to themselves as they problem solve!
Ha! If I'm not frozen in my tracks, I'm talking to myself. So I'm doubly guilty!
Just keep up the good work. Some are education , other make a person think but all are good reading. :)