Filter Filler Let’s think about the title for a second.
 Filter filler
 What do I mean by that?

First, I need to explain what I mean by filter. I’m not talking about an actual filter, which I think comes to no surprise. What I mean by filter is the mental filter we either have or lack.
 Again, I’m stressing the issue of balance. We appear to have either too much or no filter at all. A mental filter is just what it sounds like: a mental thing that sorts out and catches crap we don’t want to have to think about.
 This is commonly referred to as white noise.
 We have become desensitized to certain things because we have learnt how to filter it out.

 And this comes in handy, as we are exposed to so much nowadays, both good and bad. If we don’t filter some of it out, it will all be overwhelming. Now, let’s go back to “filter filler”
 Because I have noticed that once in a while, we appear to have no filter what so ever. You know when you’re having “one of those nights”, when everything just becomes too much. There are so many thoughts in your head you don’t know what’s real anymore. Our brains go hay-wire, uncontrollable and unpredictable. We can’t control our emotions or actions. We strive for an answer that is nowhere to be found.
 We don’t have a filter anymore. The mental process of “white-noising” certain things out no longer works as it should.

It’s no one’s fault, and it doesn’t mean you have a weak mind. It just means that you need a filter filler. Something to patch up the flood and catch the unnecessary thoughts that are just there to make things that much harder. Sometimes you need them, sometimes you don’t. 
A filter filler is not a blocker. The person who coined “ignorance in bliss” was probably a lazy soul. 

But if we can at least filter, and make sure that the dark, sot-like thoughts gets caught up so we can handle them, we can securely rely on our filter filler to do the crazy for us.