SanityCheck

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                 Maybe I'm crazy 

                 Maybe youre crazy 

                 Maybe were crazy 

                 Probably 

                 Gnarls Barkley

Despite your best efforts to find the solution to a problem you may end up with a highly suspect conclusion. It may seem stupid or be the result of a movement of thought that has taken you in a completely unexpected, even impossible, direction.

At times like these your best course of action may be to 'seek help', ie find someone to check your reasoning, or at least to confirm that they see what you're seeing. Some people have called this response getting a SanityCheck.

There are, however, occasions when you may set out deliberately to find solutions that make no - conventional - sense; for example when thinking laterally.

You may also find the definition provided by FOLDOC useful.