'mind spinning' is a valid and usable term in written English.
It is used to describe the feeling of being overwhelmed and confused. For example, "After hearing about the economic impact of the virus, my mind was spinning with all the implications."
So when I awake in the middle of the night with my mind spinning, I get up and attack my closets, organize my pantry and clean out the junk drawer, among other things.
Her first novel, The Rehearsal, was a marvellously peculiar and technically perfect story of a story within a story – or stories, actually – that had the reader's mind spinning with the complexities of its narrative invention.
Recently, after several months at Rusk, she tried going to a museum but had to leave after 20 minutes because the colors on the wall sent her mind spinning.
Late at night, he walks the neat, quiet sidewalks in the neighborhood where he is staying with an aunt, chain-smoking cigarettes, his mind spinning furiously with questions about why he was convicted 27 years ago and how to spend what is left of his life.
Stevenson's Knee Is Better The fourth-line wing Turner Stevenson sprained his left knee in practice this week, sending his mind spinning back to last season when injuries to his other knee sent him to the disabled list twice and cost him all but 21 of the Devils' games.
It sets your mind spinning - they're people who just operate in a completely different way, and think in a totally different way".
As guests ate strip steaks and lobster claws in cream sauce, Arum's mind spun forward.
Nerves turned to delight and my mind spun as I thought about what was to come next.
The mind spins at the loss of history when cars were great and certain brands had an indefinable something that set them apart.
Your mind spins to find a plausible justification for this basketball interruption, but neither the grieving nor the young would understand that, in the end, an inanimate object had called you out.
Rock'n'roll goes with sex and drugs because both those vices are distractions; while your head's turned and your mind spun, there will always be someone rummaging through your pockets.
