When I am doing something really mundane, after a while I get into a rhythym and I can do this without thinking. So while I'm still doing these mudnace taks, I have the ability to think about things and it's like my mind splits and I am watching myself doing these tasks as if I'm outside my body.
Does this happen to you?
2006-08-04 06:03:53 · 12 answers · asked by ? 5 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I'm not talking about asral projection to the point of being somewhere else.
But sometimes it's like my body keeps doing these automatic, overlearned activities by itself and it's like I'm watching myself from slightly outside me doing these things. It's a strange feeling and hard to describe
2006-08-04 06:12:38 · update #1
Robotic almost...I know exactly what you mean. I do it when I drive sometimes (isn't that scary?!) It's like your body knows the motions of the task so well that you don't even have to use your brain. Same with a shower in the morning when you're all groggy and stupid. You just know what to do in the shower (well, most of us do!) you don't even need to think. Have you ever done something and it's so robotic to you that you can't remember doing it? You go to brush your teeth and notice you already did...
2006-08-04 09:32:35 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That is so cool! I had an out-of-body experience once and it was sooo refreshing! I felt like I was dreaming, like my spirit was traveling, flying around the world... All I remember is seeing San Francisco, Paris and somewhere in Asia and then I soared back to my room, saw my body sleeping, went into it and woke up. It's rather inexplicable but a very calming feeling when I woke up.
2006-08-04 13:16:58 · answer #2 · answered by coconut 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes I feel that way too. Parapsychology calls it an out of body experience or OOBE, but it's really what your mind does to excite itself when you're doing something mundane, as I understand it. What you "watch" yourself doing is based on what you remember of doing said task before.
2006-08-04 13:12:00 · answer #3 · answered by ensign183 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might be experiencing depersonalization.
Depersonalization is a mild dissociative disorder where individuals can see themselves as an outsider or as an observer.
I suggest you see a clinical psychologist if you are bothered by this phenomenon but if it is not causing you personal distress then don't worry about it.
2006-08-04 13:20:09 · answer #4 · answered by raffyinocencio 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do things without ever passing them through my mind and i'll be into something totally different, but i won't see it outside of my body... i'll be drawing and get into my music, and like a half an hour latter be done without really looking at what i drew, and it turns out ok, i guess just muscle memory
2006-08-04 13:34:50 · answer #5 · answered by her half dead lover 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope...although Sylvia Browne the psychic tends to think you can, which I believe is full of rubbish.
2006-08-04 13:18:08 · answer #6 · answered by mryungbp 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I left mine one time and when I came back there was like 30 women ravishing it
2006-08-04 13:08:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I too have that experience...usually at work at the end of the day.
2006-08-04 15:35:51 · answer #8 · answered by ca_ajs231986 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my friend does it all the time...astral projection.....freaky....cause she told us about some things that we were doing....and she was not there....and no one called her either...........
2006-08-04 13:10:23 · answer #9 · answered by mom2kats 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not yet, can you give more details?
2006-08-04 13:08:39 · answer #10 · answered by AlvaDaGansta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋