Zoning out

Ever since I can remember I've been able to zone out. For example I'm sitting alone in a coffee shop, noisy chatter around me. I can stare out the window and not notice the noise. Most of the time I'm not thinking of anything just watching the world go by. The only issues with this is when I need to be paying attention. When I was in school most of my report cards would say something like, doesn't focus well, or daydreams, something to that effect.

In my marriage it's caused some arguments because my Husband will say something to me and then I'm supposed to respond and I'll say, what? I guess that would get frustrating, but it's sort of nice to be somewhere and not hear the noise around me.

Does anyone else do this?

I think it's a blessing! I love zoning out.

Me too, I call them mental breaks.

I like the name of your tax free zone.

My Husband Dave can't do it either. He gets frustrated with me sometimes. But when I am in the middle of something, like the other day I was listening to my voice mail, he starts talking about the game words with friends. I had to hang up because I couldn't hear. I asked what he said and he got mad at me. I told him that he was being rude. He apologized later. So he does annoying things too.

I have a friend who is good at zoning out. I do not believe it is a talent. I believe it has more to do with the dozen or so empty beer cans scattered around his recliner.

Yeah that would zone anyone out.

I'm sorry, what were you saying? I was zoned out

As my friends accuse me of having a mind that is in a constant state of flux, I don't think it's possible for me




......where was I?

I do it all the time. I always thought it was because of my ADD, but maybe it means I'm normal for once

Bright shiny object!!!!


I was going to post something deep and meaningful but got distracted by the elephant. Lol.

I iz a distractions!

Yes, I do that too! The problem is when you answer from that state of less-than-half-thereness. (been there, done that, got the t-shirt). It causes some problems...It is a blessing only if we know how to control it.

This is kind of bad, but sometimes I do it when I'm driving. I'll just get lost in thought and then I'll be like, Oh yeah... I'm driving. XD

Oh you men!!

I'm rooting for the elephant I that picture. Poor little fella.

I love Elephants. When I was growing up our local zoo had two Elephants. One was named Penny and she'd stick her trunk out between the bars of her outside enclosure. At that time you were allowed to feed her Elephant food that they sold, and you could touch her trunk. That was absolutely my favorite part of the zoo. Eventually she died, probably from obesity from all the food she was eating, but after she passed they transferred the other elephant probably named Slim because he wouldn't eat the food or stick his trunk out, anyhow they gave him to the Cleveland Zoo. Our zoo didn't have enough space for elephants. They did build this beautiful huge Orangutan exhibit and they're really neat to watch, but I miss the elephants.

I enjoyed history in school because it was the one subject where I could daydream about what was being taught. I tried to imagine how things were while listening to the material at hand. On another note, people often think I'm not paying attention to them when they're talking because I don't always respond, but truthfully, I'm simply pondering what they've said.

I do that too. Especially when I'm alone in the car and I have the music going. It's really easy to do that. Usually when my kid's are in the car I'm breaking up an argument and threatning to shut off the Wi Fi.

I think I've pondered before, but I know I've shut my attention span off when someone h
goes on and on. My Brother in law, whom I love very much will talk you're ear off. Sometimes I can't stay in the zone, especially when he's talking about a car or something. I feel bad but it just happens.