It’s called ADHD.
Sure. Or it’s just tiredness and completely normal to happen.
Back when I came into the office every day, it was a 45-minute commute. At least one day every week, I had no active memory of getting from the north side of the beltway to my house (about 20-25 minutes). I’d reach this point, and it was like someone flipped a switch, and I became aware that I existed.
I’ve done this with Audio Books. I’ve listened to 2-3 chapters, and they’ll mention an assassin; Brain goes, wait, assassin? WHAT ASSASSIN? I start rolling back find out I completely tuned out 20 minutes of the story.
Yea but then you realize that you have now made the audiobook last 30mins longer, so it’s a win… especially if it’s a good book.
This is why I can’t listen to audio books. I just get lost in the soothing voice and my mind wonders. Paper books are where it’s at.
Podcasts and technology connections on YouTube. I totally enjoy them, but if I’m halfway tired and my mind doesn’t want to focus and I put either on, I’m passing out after 10 minutes.
Yeah getting out of your car and realizing you have no idea how you got here is spooky.
Linking an obscure community that I made. You’re my favourite lemmite
Wait? XD You did? I didn’t realize it was you…
I really love your concept by the way.Thanks. I’ve started quite a few. Infact you’ve probably seen a few of em. [email protected] for example
Actually no or maybe I forgot. But [email protected] stuck out because it resonate so much with me.
I call it “reading with my eyes but not my brain”, but I’m one of those weirdos who doesn’t think you need to turn every god damned niche thing into a new word or initialism just to gatekeep against those who didn’t know the new word just made up.
It’s not that deep bro relax
how exactly do you think jargon happens “bro”?
Because it’s easier to refer to something with a single word or abbreviation than to have to explain the entire concept?
It’s more slang than jargon either way.
Slang is informal language, jargon is a specialized term. This post is asking for jargon. Slang is designed to keep people out of a social in-group, jargon is designed to keep people out of an intellectual in-group.
This is why studying takes me 4 times longer than the average person. I have to reread so many things to make it sync in. It annoys me how somone can just look or read something once and they have it already
I call it “ADHD” because I damn sure was thinking about 3 other things while I was reading-notreading.
Ambien
I vary between spacing out, zoning out, or the already mentioned autopilot.
Now I know that when people say read something they don’t mean read the words but not the meaning. They mean read it and comprehend it.
Disinterest
No I’ve done this when I was interested. This happens to me when I’m stressed about something and my brain goes off to think about it even though my eyes are going through the motions with the words on the page. Then I have to start again.
Good news! It doesn’t matter. Your brain read it anyways.
I would like to unread this, please
Cruise control.
Autopilot, like Szeth said below.I use the term Autopilot
That’s better. I think i mixed it up.
My brain goes into cruisepilot a lot.
Motor tasks like eye movement I think would fall under autopilot. I think it increases with age and adhd
Thank god this relatable to so many of us, I was wondering if this was a symptom of a larger disorder whenever this happens to me.
The worst is when I’m reciting word for word technical information about chemistry or physics, because I often like to explain how things work to friends and family while I work on stuff, and then I’ll get interrupted or distracted and have no memory of wtf I was just saying for the last several minutes straight.
I’ve done this with audio books.
