Blanked: I said What?

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Have you ever said anything while not aware you were speaking or thinking anything else? This happened to me twice in the same year.

I was 13 and I was in my 3rd summer of panic attacks/anxiety. One day, while sitting at the table with my parents, I covered up my face. My father left and came back into the dining room with a bottle of tylenol. When I looked at him he said 'here's your tylenol'. I denied having requested it, but apparently I had said out loud 'I need a tylenol' when I covered my face, but I have absolutely no recollection that I had said anything at all.

Another time I was hanging out at the park with my friend Nora and we were sitting on the swings talking about boys. I covered my head up(again) and said 'don't talk to me' while we were in conversation. When I looked up again, she said 'Can I talk to you again?' She told me what I'd said and I once again didn't recall saying it.

These are the only two occurrences of this 'blank out' that I know of for certain.

Has this ever happened to anyone else?

Yep. I do that now and then. People answer me and I am clueless as to what they are responding to. People ask me to repeat myself sometimes as well as sometimes I mumble things I am unaware of mumbling. I have had conversations with people that I do not recall at all. It can be a bit unnerving. I used to think people were just hearing things or remembering incorrectly, but after enough people said things like that, I began to think it must be me and not them.

I once organised a day out with my Mum as a child the night before but I organised it when I was asleep (I talk in my sleep and can seem really coherant). I had no memory of this that morning, it was a really nice supprise.

Yes I do. I did it alot as child, and as I grew older it gradually faded (though it is still there somewhat).

I've done this before.

It did happen to me few times. It was strange. I said something and few seconds later I knew I said something but I didn't remember anything.

I don't know if i do, but i'm starting to wonder now. I often have conversations with my sister and she will tell me I've said something, but i'm sure i didn't. This will be a few days or months after I've supposed to have said what she thinks I've said. I always complain she remembers things wrong, but maybe it's really me who remembers things wrong. Truthfully I don't know which of us it is and we get exasperated with each other.