Oblivious to the world around you

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I currently have no awareness of anything but my own recovery

I have stopped watching TV news, generally. The national news is a cross between worship of Obama and shock programming. The local news is mainly car chases and murders and financial fraud, along with a heaping dose of the sky is falling drama. I do check news websites in Sacramento and Reno, including the papers and the local TV stations. I look at the paper every day, and buy it often (I have a big pile of newspapers on my floor, waiting to be thrown out.)

I'm semi-ignorant of the weather, if it's been sunny and clear for a while I'll get out of the habit of looking at it, I only care if it rains. Other than that, I don't check the news. I do read the forums on the website of the Reno newspaper, and read the Craigslist forum, so I generally know what's going on politically.

Some of you sound like the type of person who wakes up one day and says "why is my house on fire?!?!" and everybody else says the fires have been approaching for a month. Duh. I totally shut down over the election, the media was so obviously biased that it became dull, I knew that they would lavish praise on Obama, trash McCain, and ignore Ron Paul and his followers. That there was generally what the American nightly news was about for 14 months.

Now they're back to being Chicken Little, they love having disaster to report on, so lately it's we're in another Great Depression, people are hungry and homeless, the jobless rate is soaring, and hey isn't this all great because we have something disastrous to report to justify our $20 million a year salaries! This sort of BS is why few Americans watch TV news.

The horrible "analysis" they force on people is the deal cincher, they have to tell us not only that the world is ending but how we're supposed to feel about it, and how we're supposed to respond to it, ad nauseam. Americans generally do not like being told what and how to think. That's basically what the news is, 30 seconds of here's the economics report and ten minutes of YOU NEED TO PANIC and riot in the streets so we can cover it! It just gets really, really OLD.

Yeah that sounds about right.

I was the same about the election. I only ever knew what was going on from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The news programs were praising Obama so much I ignored it, then when I went to my class my teacher showed a massive projected image of his website.

I'm always completely oblivious to the world. I lose track of days of the week even. I didn't realize that February had started until halfway through Feb 2 when I happened to notice the date on a website and even then I didn't believe it for a minute

If I get interested in something I tend to forget that life goes on without me.

I do this someones, when I'm really into one of my obsessions.

Also, there are times when I'll just get most in my thoughts and have no idea what's going on and there are even more times when I go into my room and flap my hands while doing the same for hours and hours.

I'm kind of getting obsessed about the news now, especially about the heatwave and fires. My interests can still keep me from eating actual meals though, so I find myself eating bits and pieces at night, which isn't good.

yeah. had no interest in news/current affairs until i started working in a newsroom (news librarian) and then it became compulsory for the job. i also had about an hour commute each way so you may as well read the paper. i'm glad i was forced to follow it for a while, it taught me a few things. it stayed with me for quite a long time after i left that job, but now i'm getting back to my obliviousness, the 'huh?' thing.

i really fluctuate in this regard.

if i am working on my special interest as i have been the past couple of days - i become oblivious to everything around me....
i have had no-one in the house all weekend as my son and his father went camping. At those times i revert ot my natural state of being which involves no contact with anyone, special interest pursuit, WP and a few emails, music and a delightful oblivion with regards to the outside world.

It is completely fantastic and utterly impractical and immature and it is my preferred mode of living.


when my son and his dad are home - i tend to get exposed to more tv and news. i hide out in front of the tv to avoid listening to others and straining to carry on two-ways.

I'm more aware than I used to be, but I am getting more aware of the world around me. But there are a still a lot of times when I appear to be oblivious to everyone around me.