daydreaming/staring off into space

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This. In fact, my body seems to go on 'Autopilot' at times and it's gotten me in trouble a lot. I remember one time I was spacing out and when I came to, I was nodding along to some random person I didn't know's conversation she was having with another girl. I got a good telling off that day (though later we became friends).

Another interesting time I remember is when I was 'autopiloting' in class in 1st grade (it's one of my mom's favorite stories to tell, though not so much now that she realizes it's part of my autism). The teacher got frustrated with me and asked me to repeat what they just said. When I did so word for word, they were noticeably jarred and later told my parents "I just don't get it. He's off in his own world, not even looking at me and when I think I've got him for not paying attention, he recites everything I was talking about better than the kids who were paying attention." I got that a lot growing up before my parents just told my teachers "he's paying attention, even if it doesn't look like it."

Same here. I have no idea what I was thinking about.

And I am afraid of driving because of this, because I never know when I will go "in the moon" ... so I don't drive, eventho I did get my driver's licence a few years ago. For the same reason when I was in college, I had a class where we would build things with wood and metal, and I didn't want to use the electric saw because I was afraid to go in this state and hurt myself.

I catch my self doing it all the time, been trying to get medicated for it.

Why do you want to be medicated for it?

Because sometimes its hard for me to control, esp when I get really fearful of others or socially frustrated. I don't like always finding my head in unrealistic spaces, I stress my self out to much and become panicky out of unrealistic fears of people and situations, making mountains out of mole hills.

Last edited by AspergianMutantt on 25 May 2014, 11:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I have done this driving myself. When I finally come to quite a few miles have passed and I can remember being all the way to my destination. I remember nothing prior to that for some longish amount of time. Is VERY scary to me not to know what happened..

Let me try to tell you about what I meant by Èproductive.È I lost my glasses so this post might be messy; please excuse.

I always zoned out. I didnèt know why. I believed those to be blank spaces.

But when I was in Jungian analysis, I was in the habit of writing everything down. I was reading Women Who Run With The Wolves and I kept zoning out. That irritated me because I wanted to stay in the book. At one point I zoned back in and wrote down what I thought was the nothingness of the zone I had just left. And what I scribbled was a whole big long journey similar to a dream. Dream analysis was a huge part of my well-being at that time.ààBut hereès he important part. I looked to see if the zone material was in any related to what I had been reading in the book. Ban on!

So I realized that my subconscious had a lot to say about what I was reading, and zoning out was doing the work of the subconscious.

btw I know quite a few women who had the same problem with that ook.

I want to emphasize that I donèt mean *all* zoning is like mine. Or that all of my own zonings are for the same purpose.

They say we onlly use a small part of our brains. I think zoning is a good thing and ====even if we canèt figure it out right now.

Hope this was legible.

Its really strange because on one hand I am totally off "to the moon" ... but it seems at the same time there must a part of me that is still be paying attention (like on automatic I guess), like in school when teachers would ask me a questions because they had caught me in this "meditative" state, but I always knew the answer, or you driving somewhere but you didn't have an accident and were probably still driving correctly. Still very scary tho (and like I said that's why I'm so afraid of driving), it would be useful if there was some kind of alarm that could make us snap out of it when in situations where it really can be dangerous.

I get that. I do that sometimes too. It can be scary and sometimes I can work my way into a frenzy. Do you think meds will make it better for you? I guess that would be like anxiety meds or something.

I also get in the state of semi zoned out and it has been happening more and more when I drive. I do need to be careful though because I noticed a big change in my depth perception and reaction times when that happens while driving. In school I could zone out and still pay a good bit of attention as well. I did that a lot when I was in elementary school in particular.

So you actually remember what you did while in this state? Myself I don't remember at all.

Yes anxiety and depression meds. lately the docs have been trying different ones on me to find something that works but have had little success yet. I get really anxious and panicky when I have to have anything to do with real people and it sends my imagination into the twilight zone.

Last edited by AspergianMutantt on 26 May 2014, 12:28 am, edited 1 time in total.

I do remember. I don't think I have ever zoned out so much that I don't remember what I was doing during the zone out. You must go into it more deeply than I do. To me it kind of feels like part of my brain just shuts off but I am very much aware of what is going on around me and I am fully conscious. I wonder if this is like a mini meltdown kind of thing where parts of the brain shut down because of over processing.

Well you are lucky in a way then I wish I was at least half conscious of what is going on around me, for sure it makes it a bit less scary, especially when you are driving (or other situations potentially dangerous).

I wish you the best with that. I hope you find something that helps you because that is such a difficult thing to have to deal with. Let us know how you do with it.

I can imagine how scary it must be to be driving and not be aware. I would be really scared by that.