Embarrassing Spacing Out Moments

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I space out and daydream while putting returned items back on the shelves at the store where I work, and a customer comes up from behind asking a question and they have to repeat it cuz I was spaced out.

I used to do that alot in school, I have to be the only one ever who has been ordered by the teachers to stop reading the book in class. As soon as I started I zoned out (still reading somehow) and had no idea what they were talking about. ^^

Ones in 5:th grad we went on a trip to our Capital, and I started reading on a board on the subway and zoned out as I allways does when reading something and didn't noticed that the entire class left. When I came to I realised that I was the only person in that part of the system. Half way to finding the class again (they were very noisy) I ran into my teacher who had realised I wasn't in the group. ^^

Hahahaha, oh my god, I get teary thinking about stuff like that too! XD;;; I feel so lame when it happens. OTL;; I can't remember anyone catching me though. I often walk into people though, usually backwards. Like backing away from a shelf at the grocery store. Does that count?;; It's spacey but not really spaced-out.

I space out all the time. It doesn't embarrass me; I've learned to laugh at myself. Anyone who sees it will have forgotten it by the same time tomorrow, so why worry?

I once spaced out while floating on an inflatable mattress at Nag's Head beach in North Carolina. I had been reading a book by Alan Watts about Zen Buddhism. I was thinking about what he had to say about clearing your mind of any thoughts. I guess I succeeded, since only after a long while of bobbing on the ocean did I notice that the entire crowd at the beach was yelling to get my attention. I had drifted out quite a way. There was no lifeguard on duty by the way. I simply paddled back to the beach, but when I got back, my friend and I decided to end our visit to the beach that day, since everyone was staring at me.

I have space out moments all the time. Two weeks ago I spaced out in the presence of my grandma. She kept some monologue and I missed it all.

I tried to respond to another thread here (Short attention span) only to space out when laughing so much at other posts there that i bumbled my entryx3 . Ran away from the computer trying not to cuss myself and then found this thread to confess to!!

I'm sorry y'all, but some of these psots made me laugh so hard. I can totally relate to some of them.

I've walked into the glass dividers before too. Once it was at a candy store in the mall and I just didn't notice it until I hit it. The whole wall rattled and eveyone in the store stopped dead and stared at me like I'd lost my mind. Which, maybe I had. Hmm.

I space out in school all the time but rarely fail to recall the information the teacher was talking about at the time. I just can't figure out how that happens. Crazy but useful, I suppose.

I space out all the time!

I vaguely recall being in 4th grade and being asked an easy question during a trivia game while I was spaced out. I came to at the same time my teacher said 'we could send a limousine to get your attention and it probably wouldn't work'

I spaced out at a machine shop I used to work at right before my boss turned on a blow torch. He saw I was zoning out so he popped the blowtorch on with the sparker really quick. It went on with a loud pop causing me to jump plus bring my hands up into a fighting stance to protect my face. My boss was laughing so hard he had to shut the blow torch off.

I think this state of mind is almost a secondary default form of consciousness for me. If I'm not actively reading or writing, I zone out a lot.

The weird part is when I keep talking to people or walking around while doing it. It's annoying when I agree to something or that I understand something when my own sensory input is basically a blur of impressions and I have no idea what's going on.

I space out a lot. On occasion, I will be someplace, and have absolutely no memory of how I got there.

I have to admit that I pretend to space out a lot too. Sometimes, it's because I am in a situation that is difficult for me, and I'm trying to avoid interacting with people. Also, I am very slow at switching from dealing with one thing to dealing with another. My mind just takes awhile to accept a new subject. It is not a huge amount of time, just a few seconds, but it seems to be a lot longer than most people need. So I act spaced out and distracted to give me a few extra seconds to collect my thoughts.