"You get a kind of, I want to say a blank state of mind but it's not really blank.
Bilateral damage to these areas produces the most telling cases of vigilant akinetic mutism in humans, a condition characterized by a blank state of mind, in which the patient lies inert in bed with the eyes open, but without any evidence of ideation, emotional experience, and motivational drive whatsoever [Fisher, 1983].
She can quote the first lines: "As a queen sits down, knowing that a chair will be there, / Or a general raises his hand and is given field glasses, / Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind.
On the wall are printed a few lines from Richard Wilbur's poem Walking to Sleep: As a queen sits down, knowing that a chair will be there, Or a general raises his hand and is given the field-glasses, Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind.
"Anything bad, I try to blank out of my mind," he says.
Just totally blank to their mind about [pause] STIs and AIDS... That's the last thing they're thinkin' of when they're doin' it.
This quiz was used to "blank" the minds of the subjects by preventing the simple recall of information that could result in a higher quiz score and confound the results[ 25].
George Lewis said, "I'm suspicious of people who say they blank their minds to play.
While he hit with James Ward on the Aorangi practice courts on Tuesday morning, it was left to his new coach, Amélie Mauresmo, to fill in the blanks about his state of mind and body.
Blanked from their minds, obviously.
Stuart Jeffries The Tales of Robin Hood, Nottingham In what appears to be a converted shopping centre in the heart of Nottingham - forgive me if the details are inexact; I have tried to wipe my mind blank of them - lurks "a world of mystery and merriment, where legend and adventure lives on".
