Suddenly spacing out in conversations.

Post Reply New Topic

Do you ever find that when someone's talking to you, randomly and suddenly, you find yourself thinking "I have no idea what you just said" because, for one random moment, your concentration slipped and although the person was still talking, and although you still seemed as if you were listening, you were completely in a daze and have no memory, in fact, you didn't even HEAR what the person said because you dazed out?

This happens to me all the time, alot during important things too. For example, I went to sit an assessment to see if I could get into a science class in college. After the tutor had settled us all down in the room, and out the papers on our desk, he started going though a brief summary with us about how to answer certain questions, how long the paper was, if we had a time limit, what stuff we needed, etc.

I was listening fine one minute, but the next thing I know, I suddenly find myself not having a clue what he said because my mind just kinda... stopped for a few seconds. It doesn't seem like a lot, but because of that, I didn't hear him say "no time limit", so after about 30 minutes, still only half way though, I start panicking thinking "any minute now he's gonna say "5 minutes left", so I rushed my work and consequently, I know I made mistakes...

It's not just conversations either, it happens alot with other things, like college work, I'll be sitting in class doing a sum, and the next thing I know, I'm fighting hard to get my concentration back. It even happens when I'm doing something I enjoy. I just end up doing things automatically. I can be playing a game, space out, but no one knows because I still continue playing as if I have full control of the game, but yet, I'm not actually aware. My mind's temporarily gone for a few seconds.

Anyway, this is alot more drawn out than it was intended to be. To sum it up in two questions; Do you space out often, and do you have any idea what causes it?

I'm asking because I have the interview for college tomorrow and if I make it though, I can't be sitting in class spacing out randomly for no apparent reason, I'll miss important information.