Mental Whiplash Edit Meaning

1.

The mental effect of realizing that a basic assumption of your entire life was wrong from day one, usually resulting from a totally new thought, comment, or experience that flies in the face of everything you currently know.

See also; mindfuck.

Mental whiplash is the psychological equivalent maxing out your revs in Third, and then accidentally shifting into Reverse instead of High.

See surprise, mindfuck, driving, whiplash, blow your mind

2.

The feeling one gets after a painful sudden realization that something they once thought is not true.

"I had total mental whiplash when I found out it was Monday. I had thought it was Friday all day!"

"I thought I saw Susie at the mall so I gave her a hug, but she turned around and it turned out that it was just some random dude. Absolute mental whiplash."

See stupidity, embarassing, that, sucks, for, you