Thread: Ever feel like, your on Auto-Pilot?

I'm usually like that on Fridays, at work. Just like today... I don't really pay attention to my work, sometimes I just end up staring at the computer monitor, while my mind wanders into the weekend.

Originally Posted by Luminous

I'm usually like that on Fridays, at work. Just like today... I don't really pay attention to my work, sometimes I just end up staring at the computer monitor, while my mind wanders into the weekend.

lol someone's a very hard worker


j/k


I'm kinda like this when im in one of my 'Introspective' moods, yesterday I was in PMS mood, today I feel like Socrates, hmm whats tomorow?

Originally Posted by guerilla

I'm kinda like this when im in one of my 'Introspective' moods, yesterday I was in PMS mood, today I feel like Socrates, hmm whats tomorow?

Britney Spears?

Originally Posted by Luminous

Britney Spears?

lol who knows, my personality is as predictable as hers!

I just realise ive been walking or working or doing something for the last 10 minutes without thinking at all.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

I just realise ive been walking or working or doing something for the last 10 minutes without thinking at all.

thats exactly how i feel when in autopilot heh

feels kinda like, being in the 'zone'

I've felt this as well, even when I'm totally aware of my actions and feel as if I'm making a choice it at the same time feels... different. Disconnected? I don't know if thats the right word. Just feels like things are going along as they're supposed to, and that everything is set in stone? Again, I don't know if thats how I really want to describe it, but I know the feeling.

Originally Posted by ExoByte

I've felt this as well, even when I'm totally aware of my actions and feel as if I'm making a choice it at the same time feels... different. Disconnected? I don't know if thats the right word. Just feels like things are going along as they're supposed to, and that everything is set in stone? Again, I don't know if thats how I really want to describe it, but I know the feeling.

It's kind of like that, for me its moreso like watching myself do things without thought or effort, i get this ALOT of times, when im laying down relaxing

i think to myself, "ya know, im thirsty"

and like it SEEMS like half a second later, im already in the kitchen drinking, and its almost as if my body walked to the kitchen without any effort and i felt like i was watching myself...kinda hard to describe

is it normal to feel like this alot?

its normal, and I don't think its anything to be proud of or anything positive.

any auto-pilot mode is a non-conscious mode. how boring life is if you are just sitting back in your own body while your body does all the work. take the reigns and start living in the moment

its only people who live in auto-pilot that can stomach crap dead end jobs for the rest of their lives and never care. do you wanna be one of these people?

the more you live in the moment the more you realize how many moments you don't want to be apart of. and thats when you realize how much you want change. so . . change

Yup happens to me aswell. But not the way juroara explains it. It's like the subconscious takes over, while I'm thinking about something completely different. I've told this before here, but once I was on this autopilot for about a minute while walking home. One moment I'm on the street, the next I'm standing on the fourth floor in my flat. I still had memory of walking, but wasn't "conscious" when doing it. It felt just like remembering a dream.

I know exactly what you guys are talking about

Isn't it what happens when you're out doing something that takes a certain energy, but you're actually really tired?

Its as if your true inner Self pulls back and is merely witnessing this aquired external identity going through its normal daily routines.

Its like wearing a pair of glasses for a long time. Afterwhile you forget they are there. Once in a while you become aware of them on your face and that you are looking through them. That the glasses are merely covering your eyes and refocusing your sight, that they are not your eyes themselves, and not your true sight.

WOw. This happened yesterday. I get it now and then. I was riding my bike along a busy road without a helmet and I suddenly snapped back into conciousness. I thought to myself, "Holy shit! That has to be dangerous. I've been daydreaming for 10 minutes in the middle of a busy road."

I once told my Dad about this weird sensation, thinking not everyone did it but he said that he sometimes doesit while driving and then drifts back into reality! Weird, weird human mind...

Yes, i am on auto pilot alot.

Mhm, I think awareness is a very interesting subject. There are many functions we think require consciousness, when really they do not. It makes you wonder if we are really just passengers in thinking machines...

Anybody know of the phenomenon called change blindness? It's pretty interesting. Basically, if somebody is looking at a picture of say a red house, and then they are distracted for a miniscule moment and the picture changes to one of a blue house, they don't notice. We think we are aware of these things, but really we take in very few details of a scene; only those we check specifically.

I saw a Derren Brown version of that.

Originally Posted by Xei

Mhm, I think awareness is a very interesting subject. There are many functions we think require consciousness, when really they do not. It makes you wonder if we are really just passengers in thinking machines...

...or just one passenger in many thinking machines?

Originally Posted by Bonsay

I saw a Derren Brown version of that.

I was about to post the exact same video, lol.

"The identified man takes part: the unidentified looks on!" - Wei Wu Wei

Being on auto-pilot is 'our' true nature but 'we' are unaware...

This could be depression, many times depressed individuals feel as though they are watching themselvesas if in a movie and cannot feel as though thier arms or other body parts are part of themselves. In essence, they feel "detached". Depressed individuals also often turn to drug abuse to cope with thier depression.

Originally Posted by Sarge_Maximus2

This could be depression, many times depressed individuals feel as though they are watching themselvesas if in a movie and cannot feel as though thier arms or other body parts are part of themselves. In essence, they feel "detached". Depressed individuals also often turn to drug abuse to cope with thier depression.

maybe, maybe not, I get it after a long day of work, or working out, or being tired...i'm not depressed 1 bit

auto-pilot is fun when your walking down the street, and your at the end of the street, and you forgot you even walked! lol its like effortless workout

When I feel the whole auto-pilot coming on, i work out, so I don't feel the pain cause I'm all in the zone.

I look at the world through an Auto Blitting HUD that can automatically map out the shortest routes with built in pathfinding, auto-lock onto targets within a set proximity, sort said targets by preset priority levels, mark said targets with arrows, pinpoint sounds and measurse distances and display up voxometers for them, and a whole shitload of other things all in snazzy Three Dee.

I sometimes use that to go into AP.

How do you know that it feels like being on LSD? have you tried?
Anyway, i have gotten the auto-pilot many times when driving moped outside in the dark at deserted roads. after i while i use to get shocked and think, "wtf? how did i get here? have i been driving all this way without noticing?"
Kind of creepy.

I do this quite a lot actually - mostly in places where there is movement but not really a lot of thought required. Church and school are probably the places that it happens most; my body just kind of "follows" and copies everyone around me. If they stand up, I stand up. If they start saying something like the Pledge of Allegiance (like we do every morning in school) then I'll start mouthing it, and so on. Actually it's kinda weird sometimes I'll catch myself mouthing something that isn't really normally said by me, maybe I'll be mouthing a teacher making the announcement (if it's a very commonly said announcement like every day)