Singleness of thought

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Any here experience a one dimensional- ness about you in relation to what you are doing, in any given time frame? Say as one example, you're online at WP, and you are stuck so to speak in your captains chair, and this modus becomes you -- it effectively and gradually pushes out other things in your life. You could characterize this as a consuming, one dimensional singular focus. And this 'oneness' can amount to your working sphere as one figuratively eats, sleeps, drinks, and thinks work.

As I pointed out, the funny or strange thing about this is, it can range across many things -- but there's (nearly) always a predominant one-- and every other thing is sorta perfunctory, and falls in and around the 'Main Focus.' I remember being *focused* with a "crush" for a few years on one stretch.


As an analogy: I recall watching a sci-fi movie ( the name eludes me now) and they would be captured or mesmerized by being near the glow of 'the being' on their ship. They'd just stand there seemingly motionless and seemed to just 'fall into it,' and there they were, enjoying the figurative sunbath by it -- this is loosely it, and the real deal lacks any real meaningful coherence.

To be accurate with it , there are times with a nothingness ( or normalcy) in between.

You guys ( gals) ?

Thoughts would be appreciated.

Sounds like the description of a "special interest" to me.

Happens all the time.
For me it happens with special interest, large and complex or small and simple patterns, numbers, TV, trees, thoughts, and much more. It's like you get so hyper-focused that everything else vanishes or disappears around until it's just you and whatever you're focused on. I could get so lost in whatever it is that sometimes I don't ever want to find my way back.

It's times like that when someone could be yelling at me 2 feet away and I will not hear them. Unless they touch me then I come crashing back to earth or reality.
I hate when that happens.

This happens to me sometimes, like when I am really interested in something, such as trying to see how something works, or looking at the complexity of nature. Those are just two examples, but there can probably be an infinite amount of different things that I can really focus on like it's the only thing around. I would probably have to be really interested in it, though.

This makes me suspicious of having at least part of a spectrum trait, due to the focus, time duration, and the subsequent eclipsing of everything else in its wake.


This 'thing' ( phenomenon) here is something that made me suspicious of having autism because of its narrowing effect it has on me.