ive been readin something something...
something along the lines of
the schism between pure corporeal acts and pure intellectual ones, and the strangeness when they sometimes interfere with each other. so:
a) cases where thinking is an undesired or foreign accessory are, according to the writer, sex and dancing. that is, uninhibited acts where the interference of some self-reflective cognitive process would be completely out of tune with the general vibe o' things, like the philosopher in the nightclub example (hee hee). so basically cases where you gotta let yourself go for a moment. that is, stop being reflective, which is the definition of spontaneity. i think there are more; maybe rage, maybe violence, where there is a moment where body takes over mind (not to be cartesian about it but its true).
b) cases where unrestrained corporeal freedom is vulgar, undesirable, and consequentially subordinate to a purely reflective setting are: probably what constitutes the majority of human interaction in a social environment, i think.
and then there are so many degrees of that. over-self consciousness or reflectivity, not enough, and then that kind of self-consciousness that is really not consciousness in the reflective sense, but media-induced paranoia, where actual thinking has little or no say. but that's another issue.

but its funny, i think, to observe the precariousness of thought in people, and yourself. the precise moment where it evaporates, and the precise moment where it returns, to make things awkward at times, the moment where it is most needed and the moment where it is not wanted but sticks around, nagging incessantly.

like right now, there is too much thought, volumes and layers and hoardes of thought. and then moments of rest before it returns, more fierce than before, to disrupt sleeping patterns and attention spans, and sometimes, so concentrated as to make even simple logic impossible.