Is there any way to switch off your brain just for a second? (Without hurting yourself that is..)

Question: Is there any way to switch off your brain just for a second? (Without hurting yourself that is..)
- Keywords:
  brain,
  neuroscience
Asked by to Daren, Lynne, Phillip, Simon on 23 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
- Lynne Thomas answered on 23 Jun 2014:
  
  Nope there are always things going on in your brain even when you are sleeping. In fact that is the time when the brain organises all of your thoughts and stores things in your long term memory. You need your brain to tell your body how to work too so switching it off would be a bad idea!
- Daren Fearon answered on 23 Jun 2014:
  
  Most of what are brains do is subconscious so we don’t even realise it is doing it. If we switched it off our hearts would stop and we would stop breathing! The rest of our body is just tools used by the brain to keep it alive and provide it with what it needs to work well.

Question: Is there any way to switch off your brain just for a second? (Without hurting yourself that is..)