Have you ever while driving forgotten where you are going and where you are ? I know I have and it causes a small panic while I struggle to remember which comes back sometimes quickly but other times I drive on till it comes to me

Man, that's one part of what they're calling "Neurologically based memory issues brought on by seizure activity and brain damage that parallel the symptoms of ADD." (i.e. I do it all the dang time. Major waste of gas, ain't it?)

Chrys

What scares me most is coming out of some reverie and recognizing that I haven't had a single conscious thought concerning the road or traffic for the past half hour. That I am still alive is proof that driving can be done subconsciously the same as walking.

[FONT=Fixedsys][COLOR=Navy] My mother and me where discussing of driving techniches last night. She was 45 when diagnosed with narcolepsy, and has been on ritalin since to stop the sleep attacks. Use to have to talk to her all the time when driving because she would go out..........She has been telling me for years I should go to the sleep clinics, because I go out driving all the time, one time I was coming down interstate 77 which is like a straight shot from Cleveland Ohio from where I was coming from right into N.C. and I missed a barrier off and drove all the way into the middle of Virgina, I was aware of going out but can't think. I can just continue wait till it fades. I can't tell you how much both of us have wakened to find us passing a Cemi, or be in the grass on the other side of the road, or have needels shoot out my head when I realize the car in front of me is stopped, and once when I got stopped just a a fragment from the guard rail painted yellow with black stripes and arrows pointing to the only options avalable and that would not include straight. I don't know if I have narcolepsy or not, I do no that I can't be put in rhymatic of pulseating situration with out falling to sleep, Have you had this type of experiene or do you just get caught up in your thought and forget where you was at?

wow thats scary. The only thing I have a problem with is driving on "auto-pilot" where I get caught up talking to someone or thinking about something and forget about where I'm going and just drive. Sometimes I'll be a block away from the bank and say to myself "I should stop and deposit that cheque" then I'll get home and realize that I never stopped at the bank. But it's not just with driving - I used to walk to the wrong classrooms all the time all through high school and university.

This will happen to me, too, and I have to be very careful. However, it happens most when I am TIRED...and I have heard that it is a form of falling asleep. I see it being related to my ADD in that I tend to be able to go into "hyper" mod and push beyond the physical limits set by my body. I just have to monitor myself...if I know that I haven't had enough sleep then I am more cautious when I get behind the wheel.

Kim

As a truck driver who drives for hours at a time I can relate to what you are saying when it comes to lapses of memory as to where I am , what direction I am going and so on.

Being able to hyperfocus on driving and always keeping the word "Safety" as my # 1 priority I have learned to pull over and walk around the truck or better yet climb into the bunk for a short refresher nap. (Its handy always having a bedroom traveling with you)

When your running to interstates enough and see the results of accidents that have happened (or whats left of them) you tend to make a conscious effort to always be alert and in control.

In my car I have never been overly concerned about getting lost or over driving a exit ramp as it is quite easy to get back on track by turning around , but when it comes to turning a Big Truck around its a lot easier to stay on track with where you are then it is to have to negotiate a turn around and back track to some where..........

Have you ever while driving forgotten where you are going and where you are ? I know I have and it causes a small panic while I struggle to remember which comes back sometimes quickly but other times I drive on till it comes to me

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I sometimes do this and my answer to "Mom where you going"....is
"I was seeing if you were paying attention when I told you where we were going"

I think my kids are on to me though... :D

Yes...

This happens to me every so often. It is yet another of the quirky issues I try to laugh off...:cool:

HOWEVER-

Both my paternal grandmother and great grandmother lived into their 90's...and suffered dementia/alzheimer's along the way.

Both sets of grandparents grew up as the beneficiaries of interstate travel via automobile...they LOVED their cars, and the freedom it introduced in their lives.

My grandmother was quite used to driving-and really resisted giving it up-until my cousin saw her...driving her Caddy in a nightgown...the wrong way from her stated destination....

So I have palpitations for more than one reason when I find myself lost...:confused:

What scares me most is coming out of some reverie and recognizing that I haven't had a single conscious thought concerning the road or traffic for the past half hour. That I am still alive is proof that driving can be done subconsciously the same as walking.
I do the exact thing. And jeez i wonder how i could have driven so far, and not being there mentally. I also forget where i am or where i am going, but it usually comes back or like others i continue till it comes back..

But i do , do that, in the house, i am walking somewhere and i will forget why i am going in that room for. I guess it is the same thing but on the road :eek:

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I sometimes do this and my answer to "Mom where you going"....is
"I was seeing if you were paying attention when I told you where we were going"

I think my kids are on to me though... :DI can relate to this! The really bad thing is my 7 year old daughter is also dx as AD/HD and she's still better at keeping her head on than I am.

I check out all the time while driving. Frequently miss where I'm going or a turn on the way there. Sometimes forget where I'm going altogether -- but since I don't go many places that usually comes back fairly quickly. Digital, I do it at home all the time too walking down the hall and not a clue why!

Once I was driving and daydreaming (big surprise there!) and it was night and I realized my headlights weren't on. Turned them on quickly. Ten minutes later I realized they were off again -- don't remember turning them off. :eek: Didn't notice they weren't on for a while I'm thinking even though they're the kind that pop up on the front of the car! Major checking out issues here!

Scattered

I agree with the auto pilot thing though ,I will suddenly come aware while driving and wonder where in the #### am I ? But I know that I've been following the rules of the road .