stackyFACTSBeing incredibly distracted is essentially a natural painkiller. If you force your mental processor to solve a ridiculously complex puzzle while holding your hand in a bucket of ice, you barely register the freezing agony because the bandwidth is totally occupied. Your system literally forgets to care about the suffering.
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