The brainbreakers

  Ever tried to take a blur picture of a book page and then read it on PC afterwards? Well, I did. And it didn't even take a half page of reading for the brain to start twisting and the mild headache to come across. Like a PC with a wrong video card driver that still shows up the right picture, but takes much more resources from the hard drive such that the ventilator spins like hell. OK a sloppy one, but curious cos it's the case with my PC - it's like an airplane at times :). Anyway the story is about crowding your brain with data which takes too much resources to process. And actually the funniest thing was then when I was reading not thinking about what I see, I read as fast as I would do it while reading a clearly readable text - so to make that little magic happen the processor apparently starts to consume too much of the brain resources :).
  Actually there was a scientist who experimented with the glasses. Namely, he made glasses out of such lances, so that they display the world upside down and after 2 weeks his brain adjusted and he saw the picture the right direction. Yeah, though after taking off the glasses, it took about the same time for his brain to turn all the stuff upside down again.
  A similar thing happened just today, the professor in the lecture was talking about an array p making several examples with it while consistently at all times writing on a blackboard b. So I started write down p while he was talking and after several instances I realized that he writes down all the time b, not the p that he is spelling while misspelling the b. So at times I when I listened and wrote - I wrote down p and when i copied from the blackboard I wrote half the times b, half p. And some light brain-distress appeared again as it was percepting one thing, but had to do an unconventional another one - wasting too much resources on a previously well-shaped routine.
  In fact the headache is just a signal that something is wrong, while we may not feel it or we're not sure about it - it's like a little indicator lamp in the car, which shows that the engine is too hot or the oil level is crucial, while the car is still rolling. Of course getting rid of the signal is the easiest way to relieve ourselves from being bothered, but then we loose the join that leads us to the source of the problem, before it makes the whole system to blow up.