on auto pilot?

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I get the exact same thing, I feel that I am more effecient when I get this. I've noticed I start operating like this also when I am really tired and I drink something energetic like coffe of tea, after that I get in to this mode which is exactly as you described it, only that I always give it a subtitle to the autopilot name "efficent mode" - I call it this because like you said one does everything on auto pilot, one doesn't get visually distracterd and my mind, being my body on autopilot and my eyes disconected to stimuli, is freed to think about anything , I choose this times to think about ideas and things I need solved since my mind is so extra effecient at those moments. From the responces here it might very well be an Aspie thing.

BTW: If I am not really tired the drink won't get me like that. Also those are not the only times I get like that sometimes it happens on its own but I do have discovered that is one way to activate the command. A lot of times I get in my head so deep that I loose track of a lot of thingsI do, thats usual while I am in my head but it's not efficient mode because I still keep track of some things in my surrounds

That happens to me quite a bit. I'll be talking to a family member and look down and realize I'm holding something and have to say "Why is this in my hand?" Usually someone asked me to throw something away, or put it back where it belongs and I'm so distracted by what is going on around me, I automatically grab whatever they're talking about without even realizing it. I also have a problem when asking someone a question, where between my asking and their answering, something distracts me and I don't register their response at all. Really annoying when I have to ask the same person something 3 times just so I can actually hear what they are telling me. And sometimes when I'm standing in the living room, I'll be staring at the TV, usually at a commercial, and someone will make a comment about what is happening in the commercial and I'll realize that even though I was staring at the TV the entire time, I don't have the slightest idea what actually happened on the screen.

When I do it I snap out of it when I encounter a complex or completely unexpected obstacle.

I never go on autopilot. Always aware of what I am doing.

Interesting hmmm:-

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I go on autopilot all the time, when I'm not on antidepressants (which I am now). As I said in another thread, my brain refuses to shut up. If I'm doing something that doesn't require my full concentration or which isn't interesting, I'll switch most of my attention to what's going on in my brain. For example, it happens while I'm walking, doing boring jobs and doing repetitive jobs (which may or may not be boring).

I often do stuff on autopilot and have to go back to check them (like locking the door when I go out)

My term for walking around on auto-pilot is "wide asleep".

Are you sure you mean "Wide Asleep"?

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Damn, is there no combination of English words that isn't trademarked for something?

I've been wondering about that ever since the movie "Out of Time" came out, (why else would there be such an awkward and not remotely catchy title?). Then there are movies like "Source Code" where they simply take the title from something they can name arbitrarily.

Yep, I have those "why do I have this thing??" moments every now and then.

This also reminds me of instances where I look all over for an object...only to realize I've been holding it the whole time.

I am on Auto-pilot at work about 70-80% of my workday. Unless there are a lot of people around, which tends to cause me to start getting stressed. And driving across the desert sometimes. Hey, it is a gift then!
When I was a kid, unfortunately, school was usually also Auto-pilot. Which was definitely not good. Even when I take my day hikes on my Days off from work, I tend to run with my thoughts, until something grabs my attention.
It just seems normal to me..

Sincerely,
Matthew

yup, autopilot is something i'd say is quite a big thing with autistics.


Like oh gawd, we're just such single minded creatures. I haven't a clue where my keys are right now because i just wandered in earlier i was busy thinking of something else so no doubt the keys are in some random place where i threw them and i honestly don't have a clue.

I think it's where our absent mindedness comes from, it's like we clear our minds of everything when we're thinking of something and nothing else exists except the thing we're on and to hell with the world.

Yes.

And once while driving.

I was driving and missed my exit, and was lost in a zone out for an hour +. Strangely, I lost the sense of time, and I funnily I must have turned the headlights on( don't remember doing this -- it turned dark) I pulled over to a gas station to get a roadmap to find my way back.

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I am happiest when I'm on autopilot.

Can you explain why? For me, autopilot is a scary thing, because then I can't feel anything.

Because I don't feel much of anything. I "lose myself" in that moment. Because my "norm" is feeling entirely TOO MUCH and it makes me nuts...keeps my anxious.