Do you guys ever have these moments (sometimes they can be much longer than moments) Where you just totally zone out perhaps thinking about something else and just completely forget about life, or even existing? I have these sometimes. I snap back into reality and don’t know what is going on for a second. It is really weird but also pretty cool. i don’t know if it’s just day dreaming or a step beyond day dreaming. I just kind of forget about my existance and i have my eyes open and everything but its like i am only seeing things in my mind. Daydreaming? or something else?
Sounds like some form of daydreaming to me. I have similar moments also, but maybe not that extreme.
I do this kinda but onlly slightly, I never forget where I am for a second or anything, I’ll just zone out. Unless I’m really tired from lack of sleep or if I have a fever I’ll get lost and really start like dreaming on this weird train of thought just like a dream and its really vivid and then I’ll snap back to reality and its really fast and scary, such a shock.
yeah it is a lot like that. hmmmm i dunno why i forget whats going on for a second. its not like i just snap back and am like “WOAH!!! WHERE AM I???” and have this huge outburst, i just think to myself “wow i forgot i was even in school.” (assuming that i was in school at the time)
EDIT-- Do you think maybe it is from my lack of sleep? because on weeknights i only get about 5 hours of sleep. and i am usually pretty tired when it happens… could there be a link?
I do that many times a day, especially while I have some psychedelic trance playing. I can get into that state without music, though. It’s sort of meditative as it’s relaxing in a way, since you’re able to zone out of reality for a moment.
I get this aswell
I have had a very strange experience my whole life and I am starting to think is this may be form of OBE.
When I sit on the toilet seat some of my best inventions come into my mind and I use the time to evaluate my day, my thoughts and my life. I sometimes sit there on the toilet for more time than I need because it is exciting, it also happens while i watch TV, eat food, and in the bathroom.
Now while I sit there i will start thinking about things and then come up with a technique for inducing an OBE, now I would get very lost in the technique and by about 90 seconds I am in this place going about doing my technique and all this while I am sitting on the toilet, my eyes are wide open, my head resting on my left hand and I am basically not aware of my body instead I am now in this thought of mine doing the OBE technique that I am creating on the fly. Now I think there is a name for this, it’s just ‘getting lost in your thoughts’ or even ‘it’s called day dreaming’ but the problem I face is that this is real and in the experience I have no thought on my body nothing, just what’s happening in that world, and I have been able to do this at will my whole life, its on the return that makes me think it is an obe now, I never thought about it being an OBE before until recently, because as I was going about doing this OBE technique in my minds eye I am seeing a body but going a long with it, but I am viewing from a third person perspective like an observer perspective, Then suddenly I think outside of the technique and that’s what brings me back to my physical body and I go straight back into my view from my eyes which have been open this whole time now. I never leave the body conciously or view my body forming back with my physical body on the return. While the experience happens it feels like I am there but also like having two minds playing the same thing at once like my physical eyes are open but my mind is elsewhere but my body is on the toilet doing a dump or trying to have a dump, but I lose awareness of my body and not only see my physical world while I am also having a experience where I am trying to create the out of body experience in my minds eye. This also happens while I am eating food or visualising on anything, but it never happens when I am lying in bed at night trying to induce an OBE.
That is actually something everyone does. It is the same effect that hypnotism will do to you. What happens is your conscious mind stops doing work and your sub-conscious mind takes over and starts to opperate for you. Its the same reason why you can be driving a car, and then all the sudden realize that you were not paying attention to the road, for maybe five to to ten minutes. But you completed all the turns just fine. That is the sub-conscious doing your driving for you.