The phrase "mental room" is correct in written English and can be used in a variety of contexts.
For example: "I need to take some time to clear my mind and make some space in my mental room."
The memories that live in the closets, the stairwells, the hallways, the porches, and the dining room may not have mental rooms anymore.
Finding it, as opposed to losing it, means taking the thinking brain's strength and agility out of the mental workout room and onto the playing field.
Susan Marshall, a choreographer, said: "In one sense it feels like I just want to reflect on my work, like I have mental breathing room that I don't normally have the luxury of.
No doubt everyone who cultivates what the opinion-brokers of the early Victorian age called "a taste for literature" has more or less the same recollection of the moment when books took up residency in their mental lumber room, when the spirals of print mysteriously assumed a recognisable shape and, sometimes over an abyss extending into tens or hundreds of years, writer began to speak to reader.
One has to be able to give the other person mental elbow room.
Lower oil prices will give Americans enough mental breathing room to worry about something more important: global warming.
She explained that you have so much mental breathing room when the house, laundry, dishes, etc, aren't piling up on you.
He probably didn't, because by the time I wrote that obscure piece, Davis had disappeared into what was already an extravagantly fortified mental panic room, emerging only to select players seemingly at random in the NFL draft and pursue increasingly obscure vendettas against employees past and present.
Freed from the page, I could close my eyes and lie on some mental living-room rug and dream my way in all over again.
Another exhibit explains that 9 of every 100 immigrants going past examiners were marked with a chalky X on their lapels and sent to mental examination rooms for further evaluation.
