Chronic grogginess and brain fuzz

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I'm interested in what people here have to say about subject of chronic grogginess and/or brain fuzz. Do you experience it often? If so, I'd like to hear about your experience with this phenomenon and how do you deal with it (without the use of psychotropics). What kind of successes have you had in addressing this problem?

Brain fuzz is a direct consequence of contemplating your navel without first removing the lint.

It can be very serious, or not. If it is happening a lot though I would get it checked out.

This is a life-long condition, by the way. At least as far back as 5 years old. I have never been free from it, and even when I'm most aware and alert I can still feel this... sensation ...tugging at the back of my head. "Sensation" is the best way I can describe it. It's a downward pulling sensation that feels at once like a weight, a tad bit cold, a bit like a pressure, and a bit like static electricity within the brain and around the back of the skull. At its worse, it just about literally seizes all higher level thought processing--anything that requires concentration--and inspires some faint twitches in my neck. At its best, it's just this sort of tug I already mentioned. It has always been there. Anywhere in between, it can sort of subdue me into a state that feels a lot like being tired, but it's mostly a mental tired with yet still physical energy. It can cause me to sleep for very long periods because it just requires too much energy to fight through the "brain fuzz" to wake up. But it can also prevent me from sleeping in that it can trigger twitches in my neck, shoulders, arms, and legs.

I suppose I should also note that when I was 20 I had a chronic problem with my back checked out by someone who finally gave it a diagnosis (a problem since I was 6), which was called "extension dystonia"--the first such diagnosis ever I was told. The erector spinae muscles along my right side only spasm irregularly when relaxed, creating a deep "itching" sensation that exists all the time. Drove me completely insane as a child, to the point that I on one occasion scratched my back until bone was exposed. But as an adult I've learned to constantly keep the muscles tensed just enough to prevent spasms most of the time. Now that I think of it, there could be a relationship between this and the brain fuzz.

I remember when I was 13 coming to the realisation that life felt like I was looking through a cloud, not visually, though I did have my vision checked (nothing wrong), just in some way that I could not put my finger on. Maybe feeling a bit detached from my body/the world. I got a brain scan a few years later, also nothing wrong. I figure that it is something that I just have to learn to live with.

Happens to me very often. Mainly because my mind is always going in a million directions at once, so I can't focus on what's important at the moment, and it becomes exhausting both mentally and physically. Honestly, I'm not sure how I deal with it. :/

I'm not what you mean, but I get this thing where I am thinking about something 24/7 and can't turn my brain off.

I'm going to try something weird. I'm going to making an asparagus/cilantro concoction in my blender that I'll drink twice a day. I'll do this for a month or so and see if anything changes.