Periods of Apparent Slumber

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I am very sorry to bother everyone however I believe I have noticed that for certain periods of time I believe I feel rather autonomous. ^^ I believe it is very interesting as in some happy occasions I feel that I have 'woken up' and I believe this is rather scary, as I perhaps begin to think clearly once more. It feels that my happy little mind wanders for a certain time then returns. I believe these little periods often occur when I have a break in routine, such a little holiday I am experiencing now from University. ^^ Do any other individuals experience this may I ask? I believe this is very interesting indeed.

I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean like you suddenly find yourself feeling like you've been sleeping, or something like that, even though you weren't sleeping? A sudden, "What? What just happened?" kind of feeling?

Or are you talking about something more subtle?

The first one sounds like an absence seizure. The second one, I'm not sure.

^^ I am very sorry if I have been silly. ^^ I do not believe that I have been asleep, yet that I have not been thinking clearly, like a robot. And the feeling of waking up is like I have gained the ability to think again. I am very sorry for being silly. ^^ Thank you for replying.

i sleep ALL the time. if i had health insurance i'd go get checked out for leukemia. its this bad, something is really wrong here because i shouldnt be sleeping this much. i mean i can drink coffee all day long and still sleep!

Sleep is that thing I do between collapses from exhaustion. I'm not on a 24 hour cycle and there's no way to solve that....except attenuate the planet better. Sigh.

Strangely (and this part I'm very serious about), when I'm doing my best work and in deep productive focused thought I feel not awake; that state between wake and sleep.

Do you feel this way too? Sometimes I am 'far away,' like I'm not in cadence with the outside world. But inside my mind is functioning like a machine. And I'm not sure, during these times, I'm fully awake.

I wish I could sleep more. I don't really have insomnia but insteaed I can forget to sleep. richardbenson: Maybe we're immune to coffee! But sleep is good.

You are silly, Tomasu!

LabPet, that deeply focused state that you describe sounds a bit like "psychological flow" (see link).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

^^ Yaye LabPet, although I do not appear to possess the ability to enter the happy state when working, I do appear to think very happily when in the state between being happily awake and asleep whilst within my happy bed. ^^ I believe it is certainly magical as often I identify mistakes in little Mathematics problems I may have completed during the day and correct them, and also complete other happy little pixie tasks in my head.

Thank you for the link & I did know of what is termed psychological flow, by Csikszentimihalyi (how's that for spelling?). And this flow is quite how I operate. Also, I know of hypnogogic states - might apply as well. I'm (hyper) aware in this state but deeply profoundly focused, and oblivious to most else.

I am (almost) confident enough to say most Autists function in the 'flow state' and create/formulate/think in this realm.