Do you ever forget what your home is like?

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Sometimes when I leave my house, if I think of it I have to make a little effort to remember where it is and what it's like. Not like I'm in danger of not being able to get home but since it's out of sight I become almost completely disconnected from it and have to reconstruct it in my mind. It usually only takes a few seconds for it to come back. The same goes for work or school. It's like my awareness is often just what's physically around me.

Do you all ever experience this?

"Out of sight, out of mind" is very usual and normal for me, and sometimes while sitting here in WP I have to look up and look around for a moment in order to resolve the uneasy feeling of suddenly realizing I do not even know where I am ... but I do always find my way back!

No, I don't really have this problem. I can easily visualize the house I lived in 8 years ago.

However, this does remind me of something funny I do. I often imagine people I know in their home environment, even if I haven't ever been to their house. My mind automatically generates a house for each person... it's not something I consciously build or think about. It's usually constructed of various elements from houses I've lived in, or the houses of my extended family. I have a feeling most people don't do this. Actually, maybe people would think it's creepy to think of them at home. There's nothing creepy about it to me... I'll just think, "I wonder what so-and-so does/is doing at home?" Whatever house my mind has built for them remains their house in my mind until I've actually seen their real house.

One time I was meditating, and I forgot what the room around me was like, and I had this uncanny feeling like I was floating on a cushion in a void.

Home, let me come home. Home is whenever I'm with you.

No but if I have been away from home for a while lets say a week, then my home feels different when I get back. The smell, the feeling of it.