You ever driving home after work, mentally exhausted, park your car, close your eyes, and it’s like your body just turns off? Just sitting there in your car? It’s not like sleep. It’s like I’ve been deactivated. - ThreadSky

gregandree71.bsky.social • 23 days ago

You ever driving home after work, mentally exhausted, park your car, close your eyes, and it’s like your body just turns off? Just sitting there in your car?

It’s not like sleep. It’s like I’ve been deactivated.

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robbedoflife.bsky.social•22 days ago

i do that after going grocery shopping. just mentally draining and my brain turns off. then again my brain always turns off

gregandree71.bsky.social•22 days ago

😂😅😭😭😭

discordianstooge.bsky.social•22 days ago

Do you work at Lumen Industries?

gregandree71.bsky.social•22 days ago

I’m not sure. I do drive there every morning 🤔

tgmcclure.bsky.social•22 days ago

I call it 'low power mode' it's like a nap, but you aren't asleep.

gregandree71.bsky.social•22 days ago

that feels right 😅

caneteregardepas.bsky.social•22 days ago

I drove to my old place a few times, parked in the driveway shut off the engine before I realized I was in the wrong town at the wrong house 😬

gregandree71.bsky.social•22 days ago

I’ve let my driver-mind take over and ended up taking wrong exits to places that don’t even exist anymore. Just on that autopilot

wendall42.bsky.social•22 days ago

Maybe you’re just powering down

gregandree71.bsky.social•22 days ago

😭😭😭

wendall42.bsky.social•22 days ago

😂😂😂

jenreadsromance.bsky.social•23 days ago

middle school teaching in spring

gregandree71.bsky.social•23 days ago

Hundreds of hurried conversations. Dozens of redirections. A handful of crises averted.

My battery is dead.

aoxxi.bsky.social•22 days ago

I do it while driving. Not actual sleep. The rest. It's all a dream, all day every day. I just incorporate them. It's not a safety concern. I have a spotless driving record. Just a share.👋

gregandree71.bsky.social•22 days ago

Yeah. autopilot syndrome.

talos111.bsky.social•22 days ago

Heard it called decompression, or transitioning. Just a period of something where you’re alone, not at work, but not yet home.

gregandree71.bsky.social•22 days ago

ah, like a liminal mental space

drunkenbard.bsky.social•22 days ago

I have it a little when I get in my car after work, and occasionally when I get home. But the full "deactivation" comes when I sit in my chair and take off my shoes. Brain goes full blue screen for at least 60-90 seconds to reboot out of daily survival mode.

gregandree71.bsky.social•22 days ago

that shoe shutoff. I get that.