do you ever wonder how you got somewhere once your there?

[confused79]

Wired question but i have feeling people will know what i mean. for instance when you drive to work or get train you later cant remember coming to work or driving somewhere, isint it a scary feeling??
i know you may think im bonkers but hey im at work and bored out of my head and i often feel like this once i get to work!

[4getmenot]

yep on long drives it can be really strange and its like I've gone into auto pilot

[confused79]

yeah isint it worrying though, we all said in my office its strange and sometimes ill be driving somewhere and totally forget where im going, is it a age thing, i have 4 kids is it having so much on your mind that does it?

[4getmenot]

I worry that if I couldnt remember any of the drive was I even concentrating at the time.

[redcrx]

I take a journey of 60 miles twice a week. Often i get to a point and cant recall the previous 5 miles. It must be an autopilot kind of thing, part of your brain is still driving, taking bends and junctions whilst another part of your brain is thinkinhg about life, family, what to cook for tea, whatever.

[confused79]

exactly and the risk of having accident or noticing something in the road or something, is this why some accidents happen, i dont know its just strange isint it.

[nutgoneflake]

Hello confused!

I don't know about driving, but sometimes I sort of switch on while I'm walking the boys to school, and think "where are we, have I done everything?" I have to check I've got lunchboxes, homework, door keys, clothes on, contact lenses in, that the boys have got coats on, clean teeth etc etc the list goes on...!!! So our whole morning routine has been automatic and I've barely registered what's been happening.

One morning I'll be at the school gates with my slippers and pyjamas on, blind as a bat with no lenses in, carrying the kettle and a tennis racquet, boys dressed as pirates and someone will have to lead me away for a quiet chat ....(and you've got TWICE as many children as me - you must be twice as bad!!) x

[Roughquest]

AUTO PILOT !!!!

V. scray thing indeed, happens most mornings to me on my drive to work, suddenly Ive arrived ! The human brain is a complicated thing.

RQ x

[confused79]

I know exactly what you mean, lol
for instance i have so much going on in my head in the mornings too, i might say to my sons okay get your pyjamas on, when i meant uniform on, (which lay out for them) then still have to remind them to get there socks and pants on!! then i nearly forget myself to get ready and i have to go to work!! so i would be horrified if i turned up at work not fully clothed or something which i reckon wouldnt be hard to do!!!!
loads of times i have driving to the school also and took the wrong turning thinking im going striaght to work!!! poor kids!! lol

[Haggisdj]

Home on Friday and Saturday nights...

[confused79]

yeah well think the reason for that would be bit different lol rather than auto pilot

[smudge]

Yes, I oftern wonder how I get from one room to the other sometimes! I can never remember what I went in there for in the first place!

I even turned up at work with one navy shoe & one black one on once. I was interviewing within the hour, so didn't have time to go home & change them. I kept my feet firmly under my desk instead! Sad!