[VladimirGolovin]

I used to have the ability to facilitate and maintain the unconscious processing loops the author talks about. It was fantastic to wake up in the morning with a solution for a problem my brain was subconsciously working on during the night.

Alas, I can’t seem to do that anymore — the fucking war is sucking up all my unconscious processing resources (I live in Russia). My idle processing inevitably defaults to fruitless thinking about the war.

It’s blocking me, hindering me, draining me — and I have no idea what to do about it.

[entropyneur]

Your subconscious clearly has different priorities, try listening to it. If it's concerned about your safety, then maybe your daily activities aren't bringing you closer to safety as quickly as they could. If it's concerned about injustice then you may try more directly contributing to bringing about justice.

[otikik]

It seems that your subconscious is telling you that it wants you transform those cycles into some kind of action. I don't know what your circumstances are. If it were me, in my circumstances, I would be looking for groups of similarly-minded people that I could join, or projects I could donate to. I would definitely try to be safe, I would be very concerned by being "disappeared". Good luck and I hope you find something.

[VladimirGolovin]

This is exactly what I’m thinking. These cycles must be converted into action or dropped entirely as useless waste of energy.

[ejb999]

Same here - it was almost like magic for me in my 20 and 30's, goto sleep with some hard technical problem I was stuck on (I am a developer) and wake up the next morning already knowing the complete solution.

I don't think I have the ability anymore - and actually forgot I used to have it.