Anyone with spacing out problems?

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I'm almost always in my own world all day long.

I have never had this issue.
I have ADHD, but without the Spacing Out element.
Instead I tend to trail off and digress. Sometimes
I start out with one topic, then derails into another,
but fail to return and finish the topic I started with.

Yes, I space out quite a bit. I just kind of drift inward to my own little world. Usually this is not dangerous, but occasionally it can be (ie. I lightly rammed the back of my car into a truck when I was spaced out once. I've also walked out into a busy intersection a few times--I know where I am going and how to get there so much, that I just space out and don't think about. But then I get lost in my world, and sometimes don't pay attention to what is around me. I've almost got hit by a car a couple times because of this.) Usually though, I am not in dangerous situations, thank goodness--because it does happen quite frequently.

I tune out during conversations with family members, at school, or while I attempt to complete tasks. One example I can give is when I attend my Political Science Class. While trying to pay attention about a topic, I think about a Walking Dead episode, a rap song, and listen to other sounds in the classroom. Yet, I have little to no control over this.

I do it for sure, but the worst is when I space out while riding the city bus and my eyes are looking somewhere inappropriate but I don't realize.

It takes so much energy to pay attention to what's going on around me, and keep my mind focused on anything, that spacing out is like putting down something heavy.

I enjoy when it happens to me as it feels almost like I am stoned or have been slipped a valium

I find the kind of hazy, unclear, no thought feeling pleasurable too, but the problem is that sometimes it happens in a place where I need to be functional. I don't like that so much.

I space out of all of the time. I've confused and slightly intimidated more than a few people by accidentally spacing out while looking in their direction, resulting in it looking like I was staring at them. I end up thinking about something and before I know it I'm too concerned by my inner thoughts to even notice the real world.

Its always been there. But doesnt it annoy you that some people just talk and talk and talk (and about their dinner or other trivialities you're not interested in), and its your free moment, when you "are allowed" to be in your head? Like when you're on your way to work and that's when you usually prepare yourself mentally and connect some dots, and this colleague just wont leave you alone.

I think this is also kind of spacing out - finishing sentences only in your head and relying on that the other person actually heard that information.

I'm always in some kind of a fantasy world.

I sometimes do it in mid-sentence, while feigning interest in something I am not interested in, for minutes at meetings, on public transit, for extended periods of time when I am highly agitated or really pissed off, and frequently when driving (one more reason I prefer bike or walking). Sometimes my inner dialogue assumes command and my sense of time and place seem greatly diminished. ADHD meds help, then I just disappear into projects. Inner space is mostly good.

I have to be very careful when driving or even walking down the sidewalk when there is ice because a lapse of concentration on my part, that may last several minutes, can easily result in car accident or falling on my face.

Aside from those safety issues I don't consider it to be a problematic tendency. I don't socialize, and my job does not require much in the way of interaction with people, so ordinarily this is not something that causes problems. I think sometimes it bothers members of my immediate family when I am visiting them though. Especially my mom. Just last week I was over at her apartment for supper and she had to repeat my name several times to get my attention because mind became entangled elsewhere momentarily.

I was playing xbox with my friend only to have him tell me that I stopped dribbling the ball in basketball the other day which was funny..
I used to drift off in class and at the end of the lesson the teacher would say.. what have you done..
as usual nothing was done by the end of the lesson and rarely anything made rational sense in my brain seeing as if I were the creator or everything it wouldn't be what it is.. it's sought of an alice in wonderland feeling,
everything is what it is on the other hand it could be anything you want it to be and more...