Brapse

Brapse: noun. The complete shut-down of the central processing unit of a human. A person can suffer a brapse when he is placed under great stress, or has over-worked himself. It is common for these conditions to last only a very short while, however while they are occurring, the sufferer is completely incapable of doing anything, even as simple as speaking or heaven-forbid thinking. Brapses were first identified by the brilliant physicist Niels Bohr, after he had had a particularly long session of working on a problem for 23 hours straight without stopping. Bohr however believed that with enough practice, one could train himself to no longer experience brapses. He did not live long enough for his hypothesis to be proven, dying at the young age of 77.