Who hasn't used this metaphor? I've occasionally extended it to my train of thought going crashing off a cliff.
Now we've discovered that our brain circuits...uh...yeah...they actually work that way. Something called dentate spikes act as little switches to move information processing around in your hippocampus.
So, use that metaphor with confidence, because your itty bitty brain train probably just did switch to a new destination, leaving you stuck desperately trying to find the old one.
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