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> You know that feeling when you drive home and don't remember driving home or > anything along the way? Boom. There you go. Your brain just ignored the trip.
by georgieporgie 16y ago
> You know that feeling when you drive home and don't remember driving home or
> anything along the way? Boom. There you go. Your brain just ignored the trip.
That's your brain entering a sleep state, and it's dangerous. Counter this by constantly sweeping your eyes across the road to stay alert.
I like everything else you wrote, but as a driver, motorcyclist, bicyclist, and pedestrian, I hate to think that people would view "no memory of my commute" as "my brain optimized it!"
- silverbax88 16y agoNot optimized, ignored. Two completely different things.
- georgieporgie 16y agoThat's meaningless pedantry. Call it whatever you want, it's dangerous.
- TheSOB88 16y agoI've experienced erasures of memory related to using the bathroom. "Did I flush?" I had. It's not like I wasn't conscious, just that my brain doesn't give a shit. I'm sure he's talking about a similar thing.
- pnathan 16y agoThat's not a sleep state. That is a form of disassociation.
- georgieporgie 16y agoI think you mean dissociation. I've seen studies indicating that brain activity in this state is equivalent to sleeping. Regardless, being behind the wheel in this state is dangerous.