Is it just me?

[warped one]

Do you do this?

When I am riding to say work, which is a everyday thing, I often find that I, you might say drift off, not to sleep but just going down a long straight or something then think how did i get here, or I don't remember passing that, ect

Its not like I am drifting all over the road but I just find it wierd, that I leave home then what seems like 10seconds later i'm at work. Or if i go to town I sort of wake up at random points, or when i am stopped at traffic lights or roundabouts.

Cheers

Warped
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[Kris]

Not just you, happens sometimes on commutes.

Probably a bad thing but repetitiveness has these effects...


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[tutton]

Thats scarey =/
How many crashes have you had from this yet

No, if i feel that happening i smack some music on
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[LeeR]

In the car almost always, on the bike hardly ever as I find the whole experience far more absorbing and requiring almost constant concentration. In fact on Friday morning it was quite foggy and by the time I got to work I was mentally tired, with a "thousand yard stare".
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[warped one]

When it is bad weather i don't do this, and so far i have had no crashes doing this. I find this quite wierd, but it never realy scares me, I think that this is because my ride to work is a mere 10 - 15 mins with most of it a straight.
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[kiers]

happens to me sometimes aswell on straight roads. i can just drift off thinking about something then i realise i cant remember the last 20 seconds or so.

quite worrying thinking about whether i would have reacted if the brake lights of the car in front came on
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[Proview]

Funny you should say that but this has happened to me loads lately like today i was just riding about a nice little sunday drive and i was just wondering along and all of a sunden i thought how did i get here i was like 20 Kms from home i swear to god the bike drove it self i just like woke up and there i was
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[KTM Gordo]

It's not uncommon. You don't need to remember your journey, so you don't - that's not to say that you weren't paying attention at the time. For example, if you go through a set of green traffic lights - do you even think "were they green?"?

Just lately I've been driving the car more, and there have been a few times I've changed lane on the Motorway and then thought about what I did - as you get more experience, it becomes more instinctive.
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[weemo2007]

I do this daily,, more so in the car or lorry, don't ever remember doing it on the bike though... i call this my auto pilot..

safe driving.
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[Wiggy]

Ever noticed how you might be 'staring' at something/ in a direction and still taking full notice of everything going on around you ?

Happens the most to me on my way to work in the mornings.
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[killa]

Riding back from Belgium a couple years back i was falling asleep on the motorway as the sun was blazing into my visor. I had to stop at the next services which was a fair few miles. Not nice.

But yeah, sometimes ive had the autopilot thing, only for short distances though.
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[Mudskipper]

Often when driving a car, not on the bike though.

Too much concentration required means I don't get that 'auto-pilot' mode like with a car.
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[JAMSXR]

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I found it pretty hard to drift of on my gsxr1000.
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[Pie-Roe]

Reminds me of that THINK! advert about 'the road you always go down' finishing with 'the legs you will never use' Although yeah, by the time I'm 5 roads from my house I'm already thinking about cooking dinner/what I'm doing that night.

My instructor said 70% of accidents will happen 10mins from your home, and that more percentage of them are fatal than the other 30% if that makes sense.

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[JonB]

It's called the "zoned out" effect, I get it all the time on common roads. I don't believe it compromises my safety, my reactions are almost the same as usual, i'm just not thinking about my journey, i'm merely in my zen on the road.

Just because you can't remember where you went or what happened, doesn't mean you wasn't 100% concentrating on the road. There is a clear distinction between concentration and the intake and information on the road.
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[JonB]

Yep. I think it's merely the subconscious taking over the conscious.

I mean if you think about it, the subconscious mind is already doing lots of other stuff, gear changes, the amount of throttle needed at any given moment. After a while you don't really consciously think about it.

Which is why especially in the car I forget which gear I am in cause I can't even remember changing gear.

I remember coming back from MotoGP in 2005, from Gloucester onwards on the M5 I was so used to the route I couldn't remember any of the M5 apart from when I saw a police car behind me at 90MPH, panicked a lot, but he passed me, so I went back to my zen state.
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[superslick]

happens alot to me, my job sucks being in the parts dept in a volvo, mazda and jag dealer, so when i hop on the bike in the mornin and ride to work all i think about is how utterly crap the day is going to be and all the crap jobs and customers im going to have to endure when i get to work, next thing i know BAM, im pulling into the car park.
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[Itchy]

It is because you are doing this all the time, there are no landmarks in your memory in which to guage the passage of time, it is why work time moves so quickly as nothing happens and thus there are no landmarks.

Thus you devote less memory space to it, and when you get older find it hard to distinguish memories apart and go check for the 2nd time if you locked the door or if the memory you had was a prior memory.

Falling asleep on a bike is a different thing all together,
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[Stiffler]

I used to do a 20 mile stretch of motorway in the car as my commute to work. And after doing it for a couple of months it started happening to me every single day... It was scary! Sometimes in the afternoon I would try and remember just one event that occurred during the commute and I'd quite often come up totally blank.

It began to worry me that I could find myself in an accident so I forced myself to start thinking more consciously. Then it seemed to happen much more infrequently. Since I started riding a bike it's only happened once or twice.

I seem to be much more aware of the journey on a bike.
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[Charlie]

Sometime I get it on the way from college, normally I get pissed off at myself and force myself to pay more attention. Not done it recently.

I used to find it always happened if I had a fizzy drink (was normally Lucozade) at lunch time... dunno if it was just coincidence or not. But it feels weird, you I feel like I become disconnected from my body, as in I'm not in control over it.
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