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* ''Literature/BookOfTheDead2021'': Tyron is indisputably brilliant at understanding and casting magick, but he can easily get lost in study, and on multiple occasions he has become completely absorbed in a project to the point where he neglects everything going on around him, though his results are impressive. Such as when he [[spoiler:bound Dove's spirit into his skull with a brand-new untested ritual, but forgot to put up the magick warding to protect himself from the impending rift break]]. Or when he [[spoiler:independently reinvented the procedure to create a Revenant, gaining the ability long before his Class would have granted it, but was so focused that he didn't even notice Dove and Yor chatting about him, then woke up the next morning with a pounding headache and not fully remembering what he did]]. Dove can't decide whether to be more impressed or annoyed.
* ''Literature/AHerosWar'': Landar occasionally slips into a mindset where she can hold impossibly complex ideas in her head but spend days without noticing the need for food and sleep. She gets terribly upset when Cato bursts in and disrupts her work, literally feeling her mental state crashing down and ideas fading away -- ''[[FailedASpotCheck not having noticed]]'' that [[spoiler: the populace is in full revolt all around her workshop and people needed somewhere secure to hide]].
* ''Literature/AHerosWar'': Landar occasionally slips into a mindset where she can hold impossibly complex ideas in her head but spend days without noticing the need for food and sleep. She gets terribly upset when Cato bursts in and disrupts her work, literally feeling her mental state crashing down and ideas fading away -- ''[[FailedASpotCheck not having noticed]]'' that [[spoiler: the populace is in full revolt all around her workshop and people needed somewhere secure to hide]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/MaoMaoHeroesOfPureHeart'': Badgerclops occasionally goes into "Ultrafocus" mode where he is so hyperfixated on his creative endeavors that he slips into a trance, making countless (and dangerous) inventions on a whim. As soon as it ends, he loses all memory of what he has created.
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Compare HappyPlace. Not to be confused with [[EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace the Crazy Place]]. Or [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} the Cuckoo Place]]. May be caused by ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder, though going to the Madness Place isn't necessarily due to a medical disorder. Compare NeurodiversityIsSupernatural, where atypical mental conditions do more than make you good at MacGyvering superweapons.
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Compare HappyPlace. Not to be confused with [[EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace the Crazy Place]]. Or [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} the Cuckoo Place]]. May be caused by ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder, though going to the Madness Place isn't necessarily due to a medical disorder. Compare NeurodiversityIsSupernatural, where atypical mental conditions do more than make you good at MacGyvering superweapons.
superweapons. Frequently a cause of ExhaustionInducedIdiocy.
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* This is common with people who abuse methamphetamine.
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* ''Fanfic/AloneTogether'': Kim Possible spends her first year in the Other World obsessively spending every waking moment studying math and physics, neglecting personal hygiene and living in a mess of scattered books, notes, and discarded food and water containers.
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* ''Fanfic/AloneTogether'': Kim Possible spends her first year in the Other World trying to figure out how to get Dr. Drakken's teleporter working so she can return home. She obsessively spending spends every waking moment studying math and physics, neglecting personal hygiene and living in a mess of scattered books, notes, and discarded food and water containers.
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* In ''ComicBook/TheUnstoppableWasp'', Nadia dives into this head first after a group of A.I.M. agents attack G.I.R.L. The worst part of this is that she decides to go into her lab in the Microverse, where time moves much faster than in the normal world. What was only half a day is multiple days... and it exacerbates her first major manic episode, attacking her friends while lost in this drive and, once she comes down, is DrivenToSuicide over what she did.
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* In ''ComicBook/TheUnstoppableWasp'', Nadia dives into this head first after a group of A.I.M. agents attack G.I.R.L. The worst part of this is that she decides to go into her lab in the Microverse, where time moves much faster than in the normal world. What was only half a day is multiple days... and it exacerbates her first major manic episode, attacking her friends while lost in this drive and, once she comes down, is DrivenToSuicide over what she did.
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* ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil'': Masego, as one of the outstanding magical prodigies of his generation, becomes prone to this, often forgetting to eat when he's engrossed in a magical experiment. It gets especially bad after his fathers die - he steals a city, lets himself get possessed by a fragment of the Dead King's mind, turns half the city into a gigantic magical ritual and exclusively tries to re-summon one of his fathers (an incubus) for weeks without sleep.
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* The more down-to-earth version of this is a state of mind called "flow" where a person is focused on a task they find interesting or challenging, while utilizing internalized skills. It is a state of intense focus and relaxation at the same time and a person engaged in it will typically ignore basic biological needs, potentially for days on end. Artists and scientists often find it easier to attain this state of mind, but anyone can reach it. Playing video games can often induce this state in a player. The problem comes when the state ends and you suddenly realize you haven't eaten [[PoopSocking or gone to the bathroom]] in sixteen hours.
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* The more down-to-earth version of this is a state of mind called "flow" where a person is focused on a task they find interesting or challenging, while utilizing internalized skills. It is a state of intense focus and relaxation at the same time and a person engaged in it will typically ignore basic biological needs, potentially for days on end. Artists Artists, scientists, and scientists athletes often find it easier to attain this state of mind, but anyone can reach it. Playing video games can often induce this state in a player. The problem comes when the state ends and you suddenly realize you haven't eaten [[PoopSocking or gone to the bathroom]] in sixteen hours. Athletes encounter those problems less frequently. Getting hit by a linebacker often breaks you out of flow.
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** An evil sorcerer who doesn't become a lich but simply dies while in the Madness Place may linger on as a type of undead called a Gray Philosopher, who... mostly just sits there thinking, but his thoughts come to "life" as little monsters called Malices that will attack if you try to disturb him.
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** An evil sorcerer who doesn't become a lich but simply dies while in the Madness Place may linger on as a type of undead called a Gray Philosopher, who... mostly just sits there thinking, thinking obsessively, but his thoughts come to "life" as little monsters called Malices that will attack if you try to disturb him.
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** An evil sorcerer who doesn't become a lich but simply dies while in the Madness Place may linger on as a type of undead called a Gray Philosopher, who... mostly just sits there thinking, but his thoughts come to "life" as little monsters called Malices that will attack if you try to disturb him.
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* The desire to stay in the Madness Place for long periods is a driving force in for many tabletop wizards and sorcerers to become a {{Lich}} to escape the distractions of life. There's no need for food and sleep for an undead, and in the off-chance a pesky adventurer interrupts your study and trashes your workshop, well, [[BackFromTheDead there's always more time.]]
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** Takumi Katsuragi during his time in Faust. He was not entirely in there when he created the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Hazard Trigger]] or headed the human experimentation. He did snap out of it later on and tried to fix the mess created but it was too late.
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** Takumi Katsuragi during his time in Faust. He was not entirely in there entirely... ''there'' when he created the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Hazard Trigger]] or headed the advocated human experimentation. He did snap out of it later on and tried to fix the mess created he'd created, but by then it was too late.
