What do you do when you are not aware of your surroundings, always thinking and talking to yourself.?

Question

You are not in reality but you are focusing on your past or possibly future worries.

Answer 1

It happens to everyone. Its what makes us human--- the ability to dwell on the past or worry about the future. This is the negative side, the positive side being able to learn from our mistakes and make plans for the future. But as the Buddha says, we should live in the moment, the now. Forget about the past and forget about the future. If you are always worrying about the past or future, you are not living in reality and you are losing precious time in your life. Now is a gift, thats why its called the present. So appreciate everything that you are now, and realise that you came into the world with nothing and you leave it with nothing. Nothing is really yours, just your experience of now.

Answer 2

That sounds like anxiety, which often causes some level of dissociation ("a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment" -- DSM-IV) and a tendency to over-think as a frantic remedy for bad feeling. However, dissociation (also conceived as numbing, spacing out, losing touch with feelings) need not be linked to anxiety or worrying, but may be part of depression, where one's feelings are buried and one may start to "live in one's head." I remember one night when I was in my 20's (30 years ago), living as a stranger in a strange town. I was taking a late-night lonely walk, looking outward at the sky, the air, the neighborhood, and a peculiar insight came to me: "Everything in the world is mirrors." What that meant was that I realized I wasn't really seeing the world, but only myself -- I couldn't get out of my head. Many years later, when I (finally) got into studying myself and psychology, did I learn that when I was a child, my life, my reality had been so emotionally hurtful and sometimes overwhelming (in ways that would never have appeared to anyone to be "trauma") that I couldn't "stay put" in it but had to get numb and spacey -- the method of dissociation and the seeds of depression. Losing that connection with the outer world left me only the inner one.

What you might do (in fact, I suggest it) is consult with a therapist who will help you excavate, reclaim, your dissociated feelings. That means a feeling-centered therapist, which means avoiding any so-named cognitive therapist, cognitive-behavioral therapist, "rational-emotive therapist," brief solution-focused therapist, etc. That is, any clinician who wants you to stay in your head. Possible key words to look for would include regressive, feeling-centered, primal, Gestalt, trauma specialist.

Good luck.

-- Fr., counselor

Answer 3

You have issues within yourself you need to fix.
No-one else can do it for you..its your decision.
If you choose to do vague things that is your choice.
I prefer to know what I am doing most of the time so I don't drink to excess, or take drugs, or do anything that could cause me to change my control.
You and your life is what you make it...and don't let anybody else tell you otherwise.
Take responsibility for your own life...and your strange behavior will lessen and worry you less.

Answer 4

Yes I do, as my mind will wonder of and crazy things come to mind.

Answer 5

Don't worry, you're not alone..
i always do that ^_^ hehe