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DAE know The Haze? The Haze is the brain fog whenever I have a subject I entertain comfortable lies about and the truth would be too painful. I.e. something negative about myself etc. whenever I approach the subject my brain decides to deal with the cognitive dissonance to avoid painful truth by reducing the IQ, but instead of becoming wooden and thick like normal stupidity, it becomes foggy. This fogginess is not actually felt or known at that time, but when I later on face the painful truth, it feels like a fog, a haze lifting. It feels a lot like as if formerly I was thinking about a subject in a drunken state, like when drunk people philosophize.
Since it does not feel like that at that moment, any method for discovering these?
[On second thought, deleted — the example I pulled up is arguably more "wooden and thick like normal stupidity" than "foggy".]