Sometimes I sit at a desk or lie on the sofa or my bed, and my brain feels like the fog of war that video games use to hide the map. Until the area is uncovered through explorations, the dense fog obscures it from view. Except for brainfog, the fog creeps back over the explored areas, so everytime I make headway, the fog seeps over where I've been, until I've lost my way.
One of my board games, Tsuro, is a game where you lay down tiles and follow the path on the tiles. The goal is to stay on the board. However, there will come a time during the game, where no matter how you lay the tile, the path will take you off the board. There's a variant of the game called Tsuro of the Seas. They added dragons that move randomly depending on dice rolls, and the dragons eat up the tiles you lay. So you can end up trapped in endless loops.
I feel like those dragons eating up the paths we lay is a good symbolism for brainfog.
Written by Aidan Z. (Aaidanbird@disabled.social or TheBird@ni.hil.ist)