"Highway Hypnosis" is a well documented phenomenon. Your body is essentially autopiloting the drive. It most commonly happens when you're driving a route you're familiar with, like a commute.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And it doesn’t only happen to people with ADHD.

[–] Distractor@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

This may be true but people with ADHD are significantly more likely to have car accidents. This is a well studied and documented phenomenon. Just because it happens to others doesn't mean it isn't a serious ADHD risk.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean like everything posted in this community?

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, I get the feeling that some people with an ADHD diagnosis (or self-diagnosis) try to explain everything as a symptom of ADHD. Creates a lot of noise in this community, unfortunately.

[–] lars 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh that’s just my ocd personality I’m so random

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Oi, you got a spork for that random?

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This happens to me while on my ebike sometimes and always gets me into the most dangerous close calls

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Always happens to me on highways and makes me a safer driver. I keep speed limits and distances better and drive more defensively.