Social Science Autopilot mode

[Bunk Moreland]

On autopilot from when the alarm goes until I sit down at work. Could do the whole lot with my eyes closed (maybe not the driving I guess)

It's funny when something interupts the routine, phone call or something. I get to work and find I'm not wearing a belt or something. Haven't forgotten the pants yet.

 

[RU486]

Ladies and gentlemen, the stereotypical Western Australian

Location:

Victoria

 

[MrCharisma]

Sometimes I turn on the computer - go straight to youporn and think "FMD here we go again!"

 

[KingJ]

Sometimes I turn on the computer - go straight to youporn and think "FMD here we go again!"

Poor choice.

 

[Xtreme]

I have come close to making stupid small errors while on autopilot doing normal routine things.

Whether it's pulling out a plate to put my food on, despite already putting out a plat moments earlier.
Or pouring my drink somewhere thats not the glass it should go in.

 

[FootyJunkie]

Ladies and gentlemen, the stereotypical Western Australian

why? i don't get the connection

 

[Colin D'Cops]

why? i don't get the connection

Just stirring him up like he does to others! Nothing malicious in it

 

[BALKAN]

Just stirring him up like he does to others! Nothing malicious in it

 

[Nothing]

read this from 7 months ago http://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/19fmjf/autopilot/

then read this from two weeks ago..
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...ads-memory-lapse/story-e6frg6nf-1226732566622

Or from the US a few years back, where apparently it happens 25 times a year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549_pf.html

(incidentally from the best magazine articles ever)
http://kk.org/cooltools/best-magazine-articles-ever

 

[Spirit Level]

When I make the drive from my hometown to perth I will always do this.

I realise as well and think, how the hell was I steering?

 

[stormee]

My autopilot setting usually turns on when I get too drunk - rather than continue drinking, my body has a safety switch that without fail has me phantom bail from wherever I am and taxi home to bed.

 

[raskolnikov]

I drive about twenty minutes to and from work. On the way home quite often I'll find myself pulling into the driveway thinking that I really don't remember driving home.

 

[mojito]

My autopilot setting usually turns on when I get too drunk - rather than continue drinking, my body has a safety switch that without fail has me phantom bail from wherever I am and taxi home to bed.

I have this as well. Most times when I'm out, I'll hit some glass ceiling and know that I have to go

 

[dales.girl38]

A few years ago I woke up feeling fresh, got in autopilot morning mode, made breakfast, sat at the table and looked outside - it pitch black, looked at the clock - it was 11pm and I'd been asleep for an hour and a half

 

[raskolnikov]

My autopilot setting usually turns on when I get too drunk - rather than continue drinking, my body has a safety switch that without fail has me phantom bail from wherever I am and taxi home to bed.

I wish I had that. My autopilot when I'm drunk is set to 'make a complete idiot of yourself'.

 

[edgie]

I sometimes autopilot, or you could call it ball watching, when I'm sposed to be boundary umpiring local footy. I either get in to a train of thought, or caught up watching the game, nek minnit the ball is down the other end going through the goals and I'm day dreaming on the defensive 50 with an, um... "cramp"

 

[MrNatural]

I reckon I'm in autopilot mode everytime i go out to bat.
It seems to always be set to LBW mode

 

[skilts]

As one who drove 60-75,000 km per year, for more than 40 years, I could not afford to go into auto mode whilst driving, even though I was in an auto. During a period of four years in the 90s, I was not driving these km. I eventually went back to being a professional driver and found myself 'out of form' in terms of concentration and attention to every detail. I reckon it took me about three months to get back to an appropriate level of concentration. Most people are unaware that there are degrees of concentration when doing such tasks. This assumes that they concentrate at all. IMHO, this lack causes more road deaths than speed, or any other cause.

In the past month, I've gone back to cricket umpiring, after a break of, once again, four years. I find that around 4.30 p.m. my concentration can tend to wander. It requires a deliberate effort of concentrating on each individual ball as it's bowled, during about ten minutes, before normal levels of (almost) unthinking concentration return.

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

You f**kers need more mindfulness

Have you ever arrived home from doing the weekly shop, or come back home from work, walked through the door and realised that you have no idea, no memories of how you got there or of your journey. You probably have at some point.
this experience is called being on autopilot. It occurs as a result of repetition, any task that you perform a number of times. That task becomes ingrained so much so that when you are in the situation that requires that specific knowledge we move into autopilot without really thinking about it.
Autopilot isn’t necessarily a good thing though, some of the ways in with we react to situations and people can cause us problems. These can be thoughts and emotional reactions, more commonly known as habits.
Not all habits are helpful, and some can cause us unnecessary suffering.
Mindfulness on the other hand is about full awareness in each present moment with a sense of non-judgment and compassion.
Using mindfulness you begin on a path where you can become aware of these habits, and through awareness of your thoughts, feelings and behaviour you can begin to break these habits down and begin responding to life with conscious choice, rather than react from a place of habit and autopilot. You are also able to begin living in each present moment, and begin to see life in a very different way, a holistic way, in which you can come to see that in any moment when something unpleasant is experienced, there is also something within that moment that is pleasant.

http://inreachprojects.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/autopilot-v-mindfulness/

 

[BALKAN]

You f**kers need more mindfulness



http://inreachprojects.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/autopilot-v-mindfulness/

TL;DR : WAKE UP YOU ****ING IDIOT

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

TL;DR : WAKE UP YOU ******* IDIOT

mindlessness abounds

 

[HugeJohnson]