I love writing, and my best brainstorming happens while driving. Sometimes I'll just take a little drive to think about my ideas and try to flesh things out.
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Fun fact! The reason this happens isn't because you weren't paying attention but because your brain "chooses" which things to remember and doing something monotonous like driving the same stretch of road you always drive causes the brain to sometimes just dump the memory of doing so.
You were conscious the whole time your brain just decided it wasn't worth remembering.
Is that why I don't remember much of my life?
You should go do stuff worth remembering. That's why I had sex with your mother.
Dad????
Genetically, maybe, but not officially. Your mom doesn't remember him.
You guys get to drive subconsciously? People here drive like lunatics. I legitimately cannot take my mind’s eye off the road without getting snapped back to consciousness by a near collision when someone tries to enter my fully occupied lane
Maybe im being silly but I thought this was about my skills driving in my dreams.
Honestly if driving is that hectic for you, maybe you're the problem? I'm not sure where you're from but I'm the states or eu it's just not that bad.
It absolutely is that bad. I'm in the US and drive to multiple locations every single day. Of course some areas are better/worse than others, but in my subjective opinion, it keeps getting worse. Distracted driving, drunks, texting/insta/whatever, aggression, impatience, excessive speeding, veering from lane to lane without signaling, straight-up dangerous maneuvers, etc. I see it all the time. What's not subjective is that road deaths are going up, at least in the US.
In a year, I’ve witnessed multiple accidents involving busses where the car at fault seemingly didn’t notice the bus. It’s just bad here
got off work one night and jumped in my car.
when I finally came to I was sitting in my driveway with the car on, four hours later.
I only lived 20 minutes away. I had no recollection of the entire drive.
That’s not good.
Falling asleep in the driveway would have been the least bad reason.
Yeah. You will sometimes forget what happend with very familiar monotonous activities. But it being 4 hours later is very bad. Unless you were very tired on this day you should absolutely check with a doctor what could have caused this.
I was exhausted and this was 20 years ago so 🤷
thanks for the concern though
This is honestly one thing that is so interesting to me, but also equally terrifying. I don't know how I possibly got here without colliding into anyone or running a light.
Most common theory is your brain just decides to dump the short term memory instead of storing it in long term. It decides nothing notable enough happened to keep it.
It’s like time travel. One moment you’re here, and the next it’s an hour later and you’ve somehow arrived.
Don’t ask me what happened during that time, I wasn’t really there.
I know I drank a pint of gin last night, but then I time traveled and I woke up in my bed! Am I a god?
Subconscious has been deprecated in favour of unconscious.
The conscious part of any given activity is what we think of as the source of free will but it's not certain how free that part is. I've had experiences where I don't know who is deciding the actions I'm taking. When we become aware of a thought, what is the origin of it?
Zazen driving while employing wuwei is how I drive. To be honest, if you can master wuwei, it might start looking like UI. It will become less about the destination and more about the driving itself. When you're centered in this way, you're not stressed, emotional, or erratic in response. Then driving isn't a battle; it's a dance.
Wei wuwei driving. Driving without driving. Take the bus.