"Cloud cuckooland" was a setting in a play; the term has changed to refer to where your mind goes when it wanders a bit far from home. (It's also a level in the game Banjo-Tooie, and they weren't kidding.) A cloud cuckoolander is on a different wavelength from everyone else: they're often oblivious to everyday things, may not follow conversations or other people's implied trains of thought, and will frequently blurt out non-sequiturs or ideas that seem out-of-place. Think Pinky from Pinky & The Brain, who was never pondering what Brain was pondering, Walter Mitty with his secret life, Fry from Futurama ("Have you seen Bender? I think he's gone crazy! Also, smell this milk."), River Tam ("I'm fixing your Bible!"), or pretty much anything having to do with Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes.
This is not a bad thing in and of itself--most of the interesting people I know are frequent flyers to Cloud Cuckooland--but a few kids at the preschool take it far enough that it's difficult to get anything through to them and they can't really communicate what they want to us, so we have to figure out how to help them balance their inside world with the outside world.
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Date: 2009-03-22 09:13 am (UTC)This is not a bad thing in and of itself--most of the interesting people I know are frequent flyers to Cloud Cuckooland--but a few kids at the preschool take it far enough that it's difficult to get anything through to them and they can't really communicate what they want to us, so we have to figure out how to help them balance their inside world with the outside world.