Combined Types - Do you zone out or experience fogginess?
 

I need to zone out or I can't function. I will also involuntarily zone out in the middle of conversations even when I'm actually interested.

I think I spent most of my life in a fog, and most of the time it was pleasant, so pleasant I avoided getting anything done that wasn't pleasant.

What's your experience?

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I was so foggy today. I couldn't believe it. I daydream constantly, but I don't in conversations.

The foggyness happens way too often. It's usually an a.m. thing.

I used to zone out a lot in conversation, but now I get anxiety about zoning out. I want to zone out more.

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I always thought it was normal to zone out, in fact I didn't hardly notice it growing up until people began pointing it out to me.

I've experienced brain fog for as long as I can remember. It often makes me feel like I'm stuck in my own reality inside my head, like I'm not actually "here" in the outside world...as if I'm in a dream of some sort.

Thankfully, my medication helps give me some clarity while I'm on it.

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Daydreaming is kind of my work so it's hard to tell. But I do constantly think about my next blog, how to fix up this chapter, a book I can write in 7 years when I'm done writing this trilogy and other various things. I'm on the Graham Norton Show a lot. Would that count as daydreaming?

I zoned out in a cafe today after just staring at this painting of London on the wall. Then some of the structures appeared to have texture and were bendy. Stuff like that. I think it's mildly synaesthesia, mildly sensory overload.

I zone out in conversations too. I have to keep telling myself 'you should be paying attention to this.'

I'm so foggy in the morning then suddenly I'm awake and trying my best to not burst out in song and dance while others are still sleeping.

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If something like a movie or a book isnt insanely interesting, I'm done. Off in lala land thinking about everything other than what I should be.

Re: Combined Types - Do you zone out or experience fogginess?
 

I don't experience a foggy feeling, but zoning out, definitely yes. I am a huge space cadet and I spend a lot of time in my own alternate reality, sometimes at the expense of the one we're currently living in. I take my dog on walks and the poor thing will be exhausted before I am, because I can literally walk around and just think about things in an endless stream for hours.

It's actually really liberating to pop in my headphones and wander through the nearby field, and let my brain spin and bounce as wildly as it wants to. I spend so much of my mental energy during a day struggling to focus my thoughts on one thing, it's exhausting. I feel like I'm constantly trying to redirect, redirect, redirect, to focus on the here and now, on the important things going on around me, it gets to be so tiring. When I take a walk and let my brain just do its thing, to think about what it wants to with no direction, it's like letting a bird out of its cage.

Re: Combined Types - Do you zone out or experience fogginess?
 

SO SO true!!! :D

Re: Combined Types - Do you zone out or experience fogginess?
 

Oh yes i do this a lot!

If someone startles me or says something, sometimes i will jump, and be like, "Whaaaa?" With a dazed expression.

I was sick the other day and laid on the couch and zoned out for a while. It was relaxing. I hate when i am doing that and someone talks to me. Shut up! LOL.

Sometimes we are watching TV and my husband will comment on something that happened, and i am like, "Whaaaaat?" And i was sitting there watching the whole thing.

I hate the foggy brain thing when i am tired and out of sorts, too. I swear i can't even think what my name is sometimes.

To be honest, this sounds horrible, but i thought i was retarded or something when i was a kid. I couldnt figure out how i got good grades and could read and stuff when i was such a flake. The only cure for brain fog? Either meds, or moving around constantly.

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Exactly how I feel!

My biggest struggle right now is that I really don't want to not have ADHD. I hate how meds make me less avoidant. I miss the pleasantness of the fog. I'm too fond of the reality I've constructed for myself.

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I seem to alternate between feeling in a fog and feeling an ultra lucid state. But mostly in the middle somewhere. When I'm in that lucid state I'm astonishingly productive, and I feel like there is nothing I could not do. When I'm in a fog, at the end of the day I have nothing worthwhile accomplished. But I make up for it on good days...

(Btw, is that an ADD thing, or does it sound like something else going on?)

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Moving around helps me too but I have to motivate myself enough to want to do it. Sometimes I just do it without even knowing too. I'm constantly searching for something and I don't know what it is, but I get to check under beds, climb through closets and chuck everything inside over my shoulder.

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I admit to liking some parts of my ADHD, especially the way it makes me feel. I feel too sensible, friendly, committed, aware of everything on medication, which is good to keep me on task but it doesn't feel like the real me. People think this talkative open minded person is really me but in truth I'm an argumentative little b*****d. I'm also quieter and would rather be as far aware from them as possible, unless they got the booze.
I've been battling with my impulsive behaviour, wondering whether I should take some hold off my mind or just give into it. Either way I'll feel awful. I suppose the house has been tense lately and I just want to have less awareness of peoples feelings. I want to process less of this world and be in my head for hours at a time.
I work hard all week so I think I deserve some time to be a loud, insolent, junk food eating accident prone little couch potato, with an impulsive spending problem.

Re: Combined Types - Do you zone out or experience fogginess?
 

I zoned out a little in a conversation, last night. I was so proud of myself.:)

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I zone out all the time and people think i'm staring at them.

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Definently know the "fog" very well. It takes up so much energy to focus and go through the extra movements and running around it takes me to accomplish tasks at work. I think the fog is my mind "giving up" or taking a break.i I feel this way more often than not at work. However, I can distinctly remember jobs that I have had when I was "present" most of the time. I think there might be a correlation for me with having to work at a faster pace and being in a highly structured environment equalling clarity and problem solving.