Are you oblivious?

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I think that I sometimes choose to be oblivious because my own world of thoughts seems so much more interesting. The tedious parts of my day - running errands, shopping etc. - I do in an automatic pilot mode. I'm always thinking about something else. If I have to remember something to do that's different from my normal routine I'll most likely forget. I’m the most absent minded person ever.

Yeah, unfortunately the world keeps invading my space...

I am often oblivious as to what to pay attention to, and when to pay attention to it. I often am confused because of this. I can pay attention to things when I know I should (like driving and cooking). I can multitask or hyperfocus, but am oblivious when to change from one method to the other.

What sur ... OH! Those surroundings!

Silly me!


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I tend to go back and forth between being extremely aware of everything around me and being aware of nothing at all. Sometimes I just seem to pass through the day without a second thought, and then I get asked how it is "in my own little world".

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This week I've been told that, apparently, people flirt with me all the time.

I never noticed once, but I'm amazed. Not only did I now know it worked like that, but even if I did, I'd feel I'd be one of the last people being uh, flirted at. And all their efforts are in vain, muahaha!

Ditto.

Although with the former, it tends to send me into meltdown. In which my awareness tends to only be on me, noises, and whatever I may be banging my head on.

My norm though is that visually, I'm only aware of what I'm concentrating on. Noise-wise, things tend to blur together. *Shrug*

I absolutely hate lots of noise when I'm trying to concentrate. I wish I had some way to choose whether or not to take in everything around me...

Same here.

Yes. In fact, my brother has a nickname for me: "Blivy." You can guess what it is short for. I've had people at work tease me about this as well, because it becomes fairly obvious after spending very little time with me that I am totally unaware of my surroundings. Just two days ago I was sitting at the lunch table at work and asked, "Where is X? Didn't she come down?" Note that I looked around the entire table several times before saying this. Everyone started laughing and said, "She's right next to you!" So she was. I had looked directly at her several times without seeing her. Sure, that could happen to anyone, but it happens to me ALL THE TIME.

There is something called "low latent inhibition" which refers to a condition where someone takes in *everything* from their environment. There's apparently a guy on the show "Prison Break" who has this. I think it has to do with the amount of information that your brain filters out at a low level before it reaches your consciousness (not sure on this). I feel like I have a high latent inhibition, if such a thing exists. My brain sucks so very much at processing visual information, that I think ignoring large swathes of my environment is actually a strategy to bring down the amount of visual input to a level it can handle better.

I tend to be oblivious when it comes to walking around hint why I am clumsy and run into stuff I also tend to be so focused on 1 thing a videogame or doing something that other things don't matter.

Hyper-awareness here. I notice a lot more of what others are oblivious of. I cannot comprehend how it would be like to notice as little as others do. How is that possible?

I do tend to notice things others don't too, as far as physical surroundings. But doesn't mean I'm not also oblivious. The two go together. Paying more attention to somethings, less to others, compared to normal folks.

If I'm required to do some serious thinking, planning, scheming, or figuring, then I'm oblivious completely. other then that, I'm hyper-aware.

oblivious - that's me!

i don't notice much of anything that's going on around me. i'm so clueless. definitely in my own little world. heck i was oblivious to my brother's existence for the first five or so years of his life.

I'm really oblivious to what's going on around me. It's probably why I suck so bad at office politics. I really have to focus on what I'm doing while I'm driving or I'll find I've arrived at my destination without knowing how I got there. I also have a problem finding anything, even if it's right in front of me because it's not in the last place I put it. My therapist is teaching me to "be in the moment" and that is helping me, well, helping me find things in my house anyways.

BTW, I like living in my head - everything makes sense there!! !