train of thought
Idea chain flowing
A train of thought is the connected sequence of ideas passing through your mind as you think about something.
The metaphor suggests thoughts linked like railway cars, each leading to the next.
To lose your train of thought is to forget what you were saying or thinking.
Sorry, I lost my train of thought—where was I?
- attentionFocused mental awareness
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- thinkingMental reasoning process
- focusConcentrated attention point
- threadFiber for stitching
derailed · where was I · meandering · chain of ideas · reasoning · rationale · association · tangent · lose track · flow state · segue · inference · trail off · zoned out · deduction · musing · introspection · concentration
- cognitionthinking, reasoning, cognition, remembering, memory retrieval
- Mind/Thought Idiomsbrainstorm, brain wave, think tank, mental block, blank mind
- Thinking phrasesI think, I believe, in my opinion, I wonder, I suppose
- train termsall aboard, engine, departure time, arrival time, passenger car
- thoughtsidea, thoughts, ideas, thinking, notion
- travel idiomshit the road, in the same boat, miss the boat, end of the road, crossroads
train of thoughtscattered thoughts
Unfocused, disorganized mental activity
mental confusion · incoherence · stream of consciousness · mental fog · confusion
train of thoughtbrainstorm
Spontaneous idea generation
free association · absent-mindedness · wool-gathering · daydreaming · spacing out
train of thoughtdistraction
Thing diverting one's attention
absent-mindedness · mind-wandering · wool-gathering · daydreaming · spacing out
train, thought, training, trained, trainer, trains, untrained, retrain, retraining