Do You Ever Space Out?

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uh huh to question.

I used to explain to people who noticed, that I was in a constant state of meditation. This is sorta* close, considering I don't speak their language or they wouldn't be asking. So a grasp for communication.

They would want to know what I was looking at-or why I was looking at a particular spot.

I would want to know why they didn't already know or what was so strange about it.

For a world that agrees that only a percent or few of the brains capacity is used or even understood it seems ironic to question that using it is odd.

Anywho...yes, I know what you mean both in the thinking and non thinking spaceout sense. I often don't realize what I am thinking until after I realize I've just sat for 15 minutes staring at a block of tree leaves or a textured wall. I often 'forget' what I was processing when I am interrupted. My healtiest moments come from interactions with myself in this zone. So when people question it I am hugely skeptical of their motives.

I space out in the mornings. I sit on the couch and one moment later, 20 minutes have gone by.

Then it happens when I'm walking on the street. Somehow I can still cross the road safely. I "wake up" when I get at the destination. I used to think I was the only one, but apparently it's not that rare.

The "gap driving" has never happened to me and I hope it never does. That would be scary.

I used to space out so badly that I'd be talking with someone or just wandering around with them and then suddenly they'd be gone. I don't space out as much anymore though.

All the time.

Yes, me too.
I get up at least 90 minutes (usually 2 hours) before I have to get out the door.

Some people have to work hard to meditate......but some of us, it appears, do it naturally and instinctively.

This is probably a good adaptation to modern life.

Individuals should probably make sure that, for them, it has no relation to seizure activity.

I too, sometimes on longer car trips, have no recollection of portions of the drive, but I took all the correct turns (this is only on very familiar and easy routes).

On trips to new and unfamiliar places......I stay very alert and take many wrong turns.

I space out a lot, especially in the hour after I've woken up or when I am at school and can think of so many things I'd rather be doing than listening to teachers talking for several hours.

I space out all the time....I thought I was the only person in the world who zones out while looking at my
clothes go round and around in a laundromat dryer, until I saw a scene in the movie "Mozart And The Whale"
where Donald and one of his friends were in a laundry zoning out in front of the dryers while staring at one
load spinning around.

I can space out and lose all track of time...

I tend to space out a lot and forget there are people around me or watching me. I do it a lot when I'm walking home.

Were you saying something? Oh sorry, I sort of floated off into my own world there for a moment.

Happens all the time. Happens to my mom, and I'm pretty sure she's not on the spectrum.

I don't know that I space out in the mornings in particular, but I definitely space out when I'm overly tired...or at other random times, usually when I'm talking to people which isn't good, LOL.

i call it lucid daydreaming....

i actually like to make myself space out when i think about certain things cause i like the way my thoughts flow and i can get a lot done in a little bit of time

I space out all the time. It used to be worse than it is now. Sometimes in the middle of an episode, I don't think and sometimes forget to breathe! I used to space out many times a day and have occasionally spaced out for long periods of time and don't move or think.

Lost in space topic

I have done this since I was a little Aspie. I used to think it was a sort of place where I was between the dark and the light matter, but not in a black hole but I was spiraling down, down until called out of it. Like a deep, alpha wave level, a different reality. This is the first time I have heard of anyone else doing this! Amazing.