Describe "Brainy"

I've had two rough days after pretty good steak.  I think I was set off by bonking my head, very lightly, on the trunk of a car.  It was the sort of bonk that would only make me and children until 7 cry.

While feeling brainy, I've been giving a lot of thought to what it feels like.  I had thought about it a great deal when I feel decent too.  I am asked what it feels like a fair amount, more by friends than my doctors.  Doctors never seem to care much for my answers.  They a.l.w.a.y.s. try to paraphrase, change what I said, and then repeat is back to me later using their own words.  (me: "No.  That's not what I said.  That's what you said.")

I think the difficulty is that feeling brainy (as I call it) feels like nothing even close to what I felt like pre-brain injury.  It's challenging to find the right language.  It's been especially challenging when I try to answer what feeling brainy feels like when I feel brainy.  I usually answer "it feels like my brain stops working".  Most people ask for clarification.

Describing feeling "brainy" is this easy to do:

Get drunk.  Now describe what it felt like the second last time you were confused.  Don't use the word "confused".