I think it could be argued for a state of hypnosis, like how people drive for miles but just don’t remember how they did it entirely.
Difference is, you clearly drove and got there safely. You didn’t read the words on the page, you just moved your eyes across ink blots.
I was a professional driver for 20 years. I can attest that autopilot is a real thing.
It’s easy to monitor traffic on either side but end up daydreaming and miss a turn.
I’ve been out of the transport industry for five years now and I still occasionally find myself auto-piloting to places I used to deliver to. It’s so weird.
I drove black cars for a bit, I’ve definitely just taken the airport exit once when I was out of it. Glad I’m not alone.
Yeah. It’s not a big deal, but how you handle it really matters. (This is advice for anyone else reading; I’m sure you know.)
If you miss your turn because you’re daydreaming or whatever, just keep going. DO NOT swerve three lanes over to an exit or whatever other dumb shit. You fucked up. Deal with it without putting other people in danger.
It already has a name: ADHD
“someone isn’t focused, they’re surely suffering from a neurodevelopmental disease”
fuck this fucking pillpusher propaganda
It’s absolutely an ADHD symptom if it happens every time a person tries to read. Whether or not they need medication is a separate issue.
Headaches are a symptom of strokes, pretty much always. It doesn’t mean that you should think you’re having a stroke if you get a headache.
Oh yes, anyone who ever feels even the tiniest bit of infocus is ADHD. /ultrahypermegasupersarcasm
Learn about the condition you’re talking about. You’ll get angry and start spamming shit at me, but that’s all before you’ll actually read anything more than a few sentences. I’ve read dozens and dozens of studies on this. You wont’ even understand what the word “neurodevelopmental” means.
Headaches don’t mean you have brain cancer, does it**?**
Sure bud, tell me about the condition I’ve had all my life and how my life didn’t get immeasurably better when I finally got diagnosed and treated by a professional in my 4th decade of life.
So ignorant and arrogant at the same time. Trump voter?
Sometimes a headache is actually a sign of a fatal cancer that needs to be operated on.
MOST of the time it isn’t.
I don’t expect you to understand the difference.
“School”
That’s called “School”.
Disinterest
No I’ve done this when I was interested. This happens to me when I’m stressed about something and my brain goes off to think about it even though my eyes are going through the motions with the words on the page. Then I have to start again.
I call it “ADHD” because I damn sure was thinking about 3 other things while I was reading-notreading.
Motor tasks like eye movement I think would fall under autopilot. I think it increases with age and adhd
Now I know that when people say read something they don’t mean read the words but not the meaning. They mean read it and comprehend it.
Text-to-speech is your friend here.
I use a website called “speechify” but there are a lot of options.
Still helps to read along with of, but having that auditory input on tandem with visually reading will keep you on track like you’ve never experienced.
Back when I came into the office every day, it was a 45-minute commute. At least one day every week, I had no active memory of getting from the north side of the beltway to my house (about 20-25 minutes). I’d reach this point, and it was like someone flipped a switch, and I became aware that I existed.
I’ve done this with Audio Books. I’ve listened to 2-3 chapters, and they’ll mention an assassin; Brain goes, wait, assassin? WHAT ASSASSIN? I start rolling back find out I completely tuned out 20 minutes of the story.
This is why I can’t listen to audio books. I just get lost in the soothing voice and my mind wonders. Paper books are where it’s at.
Podcasts and technology connections on YouTube. I totally enjoy them, but if I’m halfway tired and my mind doesn’t want to focus and I put either on, I’m passing out after 10 minutes.
Yea but then you realize that you have now made the audiobook last 30mins longer, so it’s a win… especially if it’s a good book.
Yeah getting out of your car and realizing you have no idea how you got here is spooky.
Lucid Reading?
I have to read out loud to myself to finish a book or an article.
It has made my reading comprehension go through the roof. And I didn’t understand that about myself for my first 45 years.
Cruise control.
I use the term Autopilot
That’s better. I think i mixed it up.
My brain goes into cruisepilot a lot.
I did find this paper where somebody used the term “mindless reading”
Smallwood, J. (2011). Mind‐wandering while reading: attentional decoupling, mindless reading and the cascade model of inattention. Language and Linguistics Compass, 5(2), 63–77. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818x.2010.00263.x
I can sometimes do this without my attention even shifting. I’ll mentally read every word individually for a while, but forget to put them together to actually understand them.
I do that stupidly often when reading stories.
I think we’ve got some drivers around here who drive like that.
I call it “reading with my eyes but not my brain”, but I’m one of those weirdos who doesn’t think you need to turn every god damned niche thing into a new word or initialism just to gatekeep against those who didn’t know the new word just made up.
It’s not that deep bro relax
how exactly do you think jargon happens “bro”?
Because it’s easier to refer to something with a single word or abbreviation than to have to explain the entire concept?
It’s more slang than jargon either way.
I vary between spacing out, zoning out, or the already mentioned autopilot.
