Constantly thinking about something; extremely preoccupied with something

How I feel on line for fear someone will see it and think I am a horrible person.) ... -overwhelming fear (that I can't always place what I am afraid of) ... They started right after I had a really BAD Flu and could barely breathe.makes you more vulnerable to the very ideas you're fleeing from. ... But keeping it a secret keeps it on the front burner of your mind," says Wegner. ... Instead, see if you can't get your secret preoccupationout You don't really see anything. ... Commentary on Lesson 8: My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. ... The theory seems to be that if you are thinking about something that is ... Purpose: to teach you that your mind spends all of its time empty, because it is always contemplating what is not there (the past). 

As the boys sleep, military airplanes battle fiercely above the island. none of the boys sees the explosions and flashes in the clouds because the twins sam and eric, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, have fallen asleep. during the battle, a parachutist drifts down from the sky onto the island, dead.

Because she’s in school