Staring at a blank wall

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Does anyone else do this?

When I'm in class and I'm bored, I can easily sit for the full hour staring at the wall or a random object in the room (like the overhead projector, or a window frame).

Apparently I look really weird to everyone else, but hey, I always look weird to everyone else.

No - if I had the time I might though.

But at age 4, the Washing Machine was just The Best.

Would keep me absolutely enthralled through several cycles!! !

(- Kept looking for where all those lost socks go. )

I look at walls a lot. I don't think there is such a thing as a blank wall, since they all seem to have at least some interesting features.

Yes. I am all backward.

I get excruciatingly bored, yet can sit and stare for hours.

Yes. And it's almost impossible to bore me. (Some of my teachers managed, though. But I'm rarely bored when I'm not talked at and I can focus on things of interest.) I tend to stare at things even more if there are symmetrical structures to them, though. Flowery wallpaper is baaaad. So are gift wraps. (Sometimes those keep me busy for hours.) Oh, and as a child I used to have a phobia of self-similar structures.

I used to stare at walls and things a LOT in class. I didn't realize it until a teacher told me. She was like "What would you think if you saw someone just staring off into space?" And I thought "I wouldn't actually give a crap" but I said "I'd just think they were thinking" because that's what I was always doing. But she didn't really take that as an acceptable answer, I guess, so I think after that I tried to stop doing it.

Yup, I do the same. Either that or I'd have to stare at the girl next to me

Oh yes I loved the washing machine! I always opened it up and spoke into it to make the echo, and spun it around... I thought it was like a different world

I stare at things too, not walls though because I like to keep my head down... it makes listening in class easier. Anything to avoid the eye contact.

When I worked in a supermarket, I used to get a one-hour break. I used to spend it looking at the staffroom furniture or the vending machines. Often a coworker would come up and ask me if I was bored. When I told them I wasn't, they would always express disbelief and then go away.

They were trying to be helpful though, so I didn't mind the distractions.

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I also really liked watching washing machines. I'd forgotten about this until now.

Yeah. Mainly in public, as it can be hard to look at so many people for me.

I have noticed myself do something similar. I am sometimes standing and thinking about something completely oblivious to everything and everybody else around me. One such instance was getting in from PE at school going to get changed and sitting on the bench completely unaware of the time and then hearing the bell ringing for next lesson and asking someone "HOW LONG WAS I SITTING THERE????" And him replying "quite a while" (that being 10 minuets) another similar instance I can remember was sitting on my bed, going in to a state of semi conciseness and then coming back again and wondering "why am I sitting here?" and wonder if I should. But in maths the picture on the wall right in front of me done by Escher (the one with all the different ways of looking at it with all the stairs and mannequin like people) had me staring at it for about 15 minuets.

yeah all the time at school.

yes i get lost into the wall or into space lol, i dont actually think either, jus stare haha

Meh, I was forced to look at blank walls in school, being put into cubicles and the sort. I could always make dancing patterns on the wall to entertain myself.

Yeah, I don't think when I'm doing this either. I usually stare downwards, at the ground, or my desk, or my shoes. But sometimes I stare at walls, particularly if the light plays on them in an interesting way.

Sometimes. But to that, I prefer to stare at a corner of a ceiling, because it's a nice fixed point to rest the gaze on. Especially if I'm overwhelmed or confused and need something simple to focus on.
Don't know if it counts as a stim.