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Date: March 31, 2016

"My mind is cloudy on these points."

— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)

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Date: July 16, 2016

"My mind was densely fogged, but I understood that I was in an M.R.I. machine. Someone was scanning my brain."

— Gabriel, Trip (b. 1955)

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Date: July 16, 2016

"After a restless night, I was still mentally fogged in when a doctor stopped by on morning rounds."

— Gabriel, Trip (b. 1955)

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Date: December 6, 2016

"Whenever my mind clouds over and I feel overwhelmed, I immediately take out a sketchbook. I write down all the emotions that I feel and the possible reasons behind them across a blank white page."

— Kondo, Marie (b. 1984)

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Date: 2018

"His mind was a synthetic sky: blue, blank, cloudless."

— Hermione Hoby

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Date: April 11, 2018

"The perpetual fog that clouds his thinking has not lifted an inch; if anything, it is becoming ever more impenetrable."

— Boot, Max (b. 1969 )

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Date: February 9, 2019

"When I imagine his brain, I imagine a bug zapper in a drizzle. Bzzzzzzzzzzt. Fzzzz. Bzzz fzzz bzzzzzzzzzzt."

— Senior, Jennifer

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Date: February 21, 2019

"A few years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to be there in the days of its snowy white disintegration, which felt also like the disintegration of my own mind."

— Lockwood, Patricia

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Date: February 21, 2019

"Previously these communities were imposed on us, along with their mental weather."

— Lockwood, Patricia

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Date: February 21, 2019

"Gradually it had become the place where we sounded like each other, through some erosion of wind or water on a self not nearly as firm as stone."

— Lockwood, Patricia

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.