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Dec 22, 2017 3:47 AM
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BEAUTYISINTEHEYEWHENYOUHOLDHER
Yes.
robot242
Not me. Too many dbags in my town, can't zone out.
VeloxFox
Extra points: Do this on a motorcycle.
timesnein
At least 20% of my daily commute, ever day. This is me.
Daemencer
You're in a state of hypnosis. So you're still concious and able to snap back to your full active brain any second, just didn't need to :)
slackzer
I zoned out twenty years ago and haven't looked back since.
rockfireman
I don't drive, but I find myself doing this sometimes on my walk home from work. I like it because it seems like the walk goes by quicker.
Mutru
This happens to me every morning at the way to work. I'm just there... somehow...
Raewll
this is similar to folks who drink a lot and get in a zone where they can drive home perfectly well, yet they can't remember having done so.
apprenticedentist
They call it highway hypnosis. And it’s often used as an example by philosophers on why we need consciousness at all.
bezuer
this is what your brains strives to achieve: turn everything into routine, so your brain controls all and you don't forget to breathe
myaszcrak
Most weekend nights
r6popo
Did this after moving, kept ending up in my old neighborhood.
ProffesorGoogle
I was driving dd5 for like an hour didn't even know how I got to my destination
LDF607
Or I'll drive through a traffic light but the car behind me stops, and that makes me question everything I thought I knew.
SparklingUnicornFarts
I once filled ground coffe in the washing machine .
MrKrillin
I used to deliver news papers, 12 years on the same route. I'm pretty sure I did it in my sleep a few times.
AlcoholicsAnonymousBYO
Did the same for a few years as a tiny town publisher .. someone beeping me from behind saved me from driving into a wall.
MrKrillin
Yeah, there were a few times I'd almost pull out in front of someone just because I'd be so zoned out and used to having the roads to myself
AlcoholicsAnonymousBYO
Universe. Car. Universe.
Solo599
I once managed to not breath for 2 minutes straight while driving
LegoboyPrime
If you do a repetitive task, your brain won’t store the details… which is why I have no memory of the last three hours of Imgur.
iamalreadyaghost
Autopilot
janskis
whiiiite liiine feever
dumbinsults
Did this on the highway. Had to look for signs to figure out where I was to figure out where I was going.
Bblaedzz
When I go to works my truck is usually in auto pilot till I get there
shiftdi3s3l
It's happened to me several times before, how am I not dead?
MiZfUnKy45
One time this was happening and I fell asleep at the wheel with no memory of the last 40 min of driving. I no longer can allow myself to...
MiZfUnKy45
Relax or daydream. There was no warning that I remember. No nodding off or heavy eyes or anything, just came to going off and rolled the car
Ibrakadabra4
But then you see your dead grandma in the passenger seat and know all is well
Shirense
You keep being weird!
DrFunkenstein57
How else do you use the carpool lane?
Medmobster
Me too. My brain starts reliving things from the suppression cabinet and I wonder how I remembered to signal
RoseTheSpecialEdTeacher
If you drive a BMW, the anwer is simple: you didn't.
butreallywhogivesasingleshyt
Muscle memory
laserpigeons
https://imgur.com/WAN3Bby
AGiantSlor
Haha. Suppression cabinet.
Messageforbobwehadababyitsaboy
Medmobster
Thank you I invented this
TCxStorm
You invented this?...........I invented it.
Bassnecker
You invented this? I invented this.
Hecter94
I once hopped in the car to go to the store and found myself parked in front of my office 40 minutes later.
jakeinthehood
You need to be turned off and on again
Justsayinthis
Happens to me a lot
andytuba
I've ended up in my alma mater's parking lot in my parents' car when visiting my hometown. Graduated over a decade ago.
StrayZenith
You hypnotized yourself. A state of relaxed focus that you don't necessarily remember
ShawnS4362
I’ve done that...20 miles on autopilot and I don’t remember the drive.
SpontaneousOso
Do you guys also have ADHD or ADD?
Xedi22
300 mile drive. Always stop halfway, either way. One late night leave and go back the wrong way. Such frustration. No exit 30+ miles....
dorkypork
Instructions unclear.. reached moon
superanth
Lmao nice.
LordCarna
I once drove to my old apartment in totally different suburb and parked in the garage before I realised
swatz
The other day I was going to meet my brother, drove right by his neighborhood and realized it when I was switching highways, 15 minutes <
swatz
>down the road. Called him up and was all, fuck I'm going to be late, I'm halfway to work before I realized what I was doing.
TheJokeWrecker
It's called highway hypnosis. I remember the driver's ed teacher telling us about it.
LyraTheLycan
Happens while walking too, get him to explain that
gatomejores
Stop walking on the highway
LyraTheLycan
Can't help it, my bike broke down and the devil won't pick me up
MightyNerdyCrafty
I'll have to remember to ask my driving instructor about it! Meanwhile... Tell us what you know?
RaynWisp
I got an Uber to drive me to college, the dude took me to his college and didn't even realize. I was asleep.
1414145691
and you wonder why accidents triple between 8am-9am and 5pm-6pm
StrayZenith
Density of drivers and tiredness?
1414145691
tiredness and 'autopilot'
IDidJust
Did that during a 1 hour drive. Don't remember a thing until I pulled in the driveway. My gf said all I kept saying was "uh-huh".
IDidJust
The freakiest thing was she told me I drove perfectly normal, no speeding, used turn signals, etc. I remember getting in my car and parking.
blessedbl4d3
This is why my new car is manual. Keeps me from zoning like that, plus it is just more fun.
h0thead132
Give it a couple years... My last 2 cars have been stick and I still zone out drive almost every day to and from work...
zacorbul
Driving a manual, still happening.
rowdypup
That’s why I got one too. Fell asleep at the wheel when I was younger. Never gonna let that happen again.
auvor
After a while driving a manual you'll be perfectly able to zone out driving it. The shifting becomes muscle memory just like the rest.
therooter007
Iirc it's because you do the trip so often, your brain doesnt need to remember the common sights. So you're thinkning as you do it, 1/
JHawke
TIL my brain only figured it didn't need to take in the sights when I was drunk.
therooter007
Just your brain doesn't record it. So you don't remember it. Similar to watching tv but not remembering the commercials. 2/2
Morris101
Automaticity. It's a beautiful thing.
TheTeddyBeer
This happens to me every time I leave my apartment building.. I can never remember leaving my apartment and it kind of bugs me (1/2)
TheTeddyBeer
cause I can't remember if I even locked the door (2/2)