Do you sometimes find yourself "zoning out" while driving on the highway?

[Flyermax2k3]

Originally posted by: NFS4


Well aren't you Mr. Superman? I bet you sneeze with your eyes open too

I'm not bragging, just explaining why I said what I said.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Flyermax2k3

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: Flyermax2k3

Originally posted by: bradruth


Assuming there is an afterlife. We could just be a pile of bones if and when the world ends.

Anything's possible. I choose to believe differently but I'm not G-d so I certainly can't say anything is absolute truth.

Not referring to you in parrticular;
it always makes me smile when I hear how some people are absolutely certain that there is no such thing as an absolute certainity.

The only absolute certainty that I know of is that I exist. "I think, therefore I am". Everything else is externalized and not provable

Yet you still profess to believe in a religious "Truth"...

 

[Flyermax2k3]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33


Yet you still profess to believe in a religious "Truth"...

A wise man once said it's better to have faith that to have beliefs. I'll leave it at that.

 

[matt426malm]

Originally posted by: Flyermax2k3

Originally posted by: Astaroth33


Yet you still profess to believe in a religious "Truth"...

A wise man once said it's better to have faith that to have beliefs. I'll leave it at that.

Buddha:

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it.

 

[NFS4]

Here's an article on highway hypnosis:

http://www.yankton.net/stories/112603/com_20031126038.shtml

 

[Yossarian]

morons: this thread is not about religion

 

[Flyermax2k3]

Originally posted by: matt426malm

Originally posted by: Flyermax2k3

Originally posted by: Astaroth33


Yet you still profess to believe in a religious "Truth"...

A wise man once said it's better to have faith that to have beliefs. I'll leave it at that.

Buddha:

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it.

eh..... There was never anyone named Buddha............

 

[bradruth]

Originally posted by: Flyermax2k3

Originally posted by: matt426malm

Originally posted by: Flyermax2k3

Originally posted by: Astaroth33


Yet you still profess to believe in a religious "Truth"...

A wise man once said it's better to have faith that to have beliefs. I'll leave it at that.

Buddha:

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it.

eh..... There was never anyone named Buddha............

You know he meant Siddhartha Gautama. Would it have been good enough if he'd said the Buddha?

 

[matt426malm]

Originally posted by: Flyermax2k3

Originally posted by: matt426malm

Originally posted by: Flyermax2k3

Originally posted by: Astaroth33


Yet you still profess to believe in a religious "Truth"...

A wise man once said it's better to have faith that to have beliefs. I'll leave it at that.

Buddha:

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it.

eh..... There was never anyone named Buddha............

Sorry Tathagata, Bhagavat, Siddhartha Gautama or Sugata. Also known as Buddha - The enlightened one, usual title given to the founder of Buddhism

 

[Flyermax2k3]

Nevermind. My bad. It was always my understanding that there wasn't any actual "Buddha" but I guess that's only half-right (in the sense that the Buddhists don't believe in a deity named Buddha, anyway).

 

[SynthDude2001]

Hmm, I think this thread may at one point have had something to do with the topic, instead of religion...

Yes, the "zoning out" has happened to me before while driving.

 

[NFS4]

Would everyone please STFU with the religion stuff Get a pew or something

 

[Chaotic42]

Yep.

I call it zoning in. A state of pure driving.

I get a 14 hour dose of in here in a month.

 

[StormRider]

Kind of. I'll be thinking about stuff and then realize that the roads don't look familar. Then I'll realized that I passed my exit a few miles ago.

 

[Ryan]

All the time - and I deliver pizzas for a living I've been working at the same store for over 2 years, and I have our whole city mapped out in the head - no need to look at a map. Before I leave to go on a delivery, I'll makle a little mental map, but sometimes I just zone out and just keep driving instead of delivering.

 

[db]

...............................what was the question?

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Here's an article on highway hypnosis:

http://www.yankton.net/stories/112603/com_20031126038.shtml

That's pretty scary when you think about it: drivers who are more or less sleep-driving. If anything major happened, they'd never notice it until it's too late.:Q

 

[stormbv]

Originally posted by: matt426malm

Originally posted by: Flyermax2k3

Originally posted by: Astaroth33


Yet you still profess to believe in a religious "Truth"...

A wise man once said it's better to have faith that to have beliefs. I'll leave it at that.

Buddha: Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it.

What text is that contained in?

Anyhow, I get my best thinking done when I'm driving, but I'm rural hickboy. When I'm in my zone, it's like driving becomes automatic and I'm home before I know it! You don't have to consciously keep your heart beating, do you?

 

[Evadman]

It happens to me, but not often thank god. Usually it is only for a mile or 2, but once on my way home from work almost 5 years ago, I ended up in Rockford. Rockford is almost 80 miles from my home. My home was about 8 miles from where I worked.

It bugs me to this day.

 

[spidey]

Sometimes, on the I-5 between San Jose & L.A. I don't remember it ever happening in the city, though.

 

[Acanthus]

That happens to me in video games too, i can beat entire levels of halo while "zoned out".

 

[matt426malm]

Happens to me while reading I'll read a page or two thinking of something completely different.

 

[boomdart]

I find myself adjusting to the music I listen to...

For example, listening to happy hardcore techno, I speed up...and speed up... Fastest I've went is 145 in my talon tsi, which I have since rid myself the pleasure of having. I've only been to 115 in the Thunderbird (computer locked) and 135 in the Probe GT's, and 120 in the STS (I really should see what it's max is...)

No wonder I don't have a license right now...

 

[thomsbrain]

yeah it's happened to me a few times, but i'm usually busy enough looking for cops that it doesn't happen. actually, i find that if i do the speed limit it happens far more often because i'm not on the look out.

 

[brtspears2]

Originally posted by: spidey
Sometimes, on the I-5 between San Jose & L.A. I don't remember it ever happening in the city, though.

I used to have that problem on that road until I got ticketed and now I just count miles between exits. I got all the exits and which food and gas places exit has memorized all the way from Hwy 152 to Grapevine.