HOW AND WHEN NOT TO " ZONE OUT " FOR DUMMIES

By Still Life · Aug 19, 2008 · 652 · 7
  1. I just knew I wouldn’t be able to keep awake unless I pinned my eyelids to my forehead, so I left my cardigan on my chair and bailed: I climbed up the stairs to the rooftop of our office building and sat crouched in a corner, holding my ankles, and totally zoning out.

    According to wikihow, I broke a few "zoning out" rules, mainly this one:

    "Leave zoning out for when you have free time; it isn't something to practice during work or school hours."

    Oh, and apparently I was oblivious to these also :

    If you are really disconnected from your surroundings you may be at risk of being embarrassed when you are "awakened."

    Zoning out is not a good idea in a class where you need to take notes or do work.

    Try not to stare at one spot for too long.

    My supervisor came up for a smoke a while later. I'm not sure how long he'd been there after me, but he found me with my mouth hanging slightly ajar, staring into space (I'm sure of it, because when I snapped back to reality, my mouth was agape).

    He was standing near the stairs with one hand in his pocket and was taking a puff when he turned around suddenly and spotted me huddled in the corner. I guess he was really surprised, because he was silent for a very long time.
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    Anyway, I swear on the Dali lama there were no hard drugs (or any at all!) involved in my trip to San Diego, but I can't for the life of me recall anything I did the last few days there.

    It just takes a while for me to sort out my thoughts. Vacations tend to rob me of all coherent thought for the first two or three days after.

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  1. CDRW
    Dang, there's a rule against zoning out at work? I can't help it, it's so easy to do it when zoning out looks so much like doing my job anyways.

    Your supervisor wasn't mean about it when you snapped out of it was he?
    CDRW, Aug 19, 2008
  2. Shadow Dragon
    I think just about everyone breaks the no zoning out at work rule. Man, just staring off into space like that, you must have been really out of it.
    Shadow Dragon, Aug 19, 2008
  3. soujiroseta
    ........................................................what?
    soujiroseta, Aug 20, 2008
  4. Still Life
    souji: Zoning out now?
    CDRW: No, he didn't really say anything. He was up for a smoke. I guess, he understood me needing a break. He just nodded and went back to doing what he was doing before.

    Shadow: I do that a lot. I've fallen asleep before with my eyes open, too. Very freaky.
    Still Life, Aug 20, 2008
  5. Fluxhavok
    you sure there were no drugs involved? not even a little heroin? Maybe you're just a spacer. Or maybe you just never fully woke up that morning. That happens to me all the time.
    Fluxhavok, Aug 21, 2008
  6. starrynight89
    Haha, I like how you had to specify that there were no drugs involved. . . I know what you been. . . not really, but I can try. I can understand how vacations can throw people off cuz its different from their routine, so it's harder to come back?? I think. I dont know. Lol. Zoning out is fun but yeah, definitely not at work. . . lol. What did your boss say?
    starrynight89, Aug 21, 2008
  7. Charisma
    I know how to zone out in class. It's risky if you have zoned out during the first two months of class, if your teacher has a bad impression of you or if she's young and crabby. Otherwise, I remember napping during class or zoning out, as you put, sitting in the second row. I'd stand the book open in front of me, keep it up with my pencil box and have a pencil in my hand. I'd be as safe as though I'm not even there for the teacher. :p I was caught once, but a young Math teacher, but I didn't get scolded. :D
    Charisma, Aug 21, 2008
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