I was in a training yesterday. While explaining one of the concepts, the trainer mentioned about being in auto-pilot mode.
That is when I realized that I have been in that situation many times. When I am preoccupied with thoughts, my mind switches to auto-pilot mode while I am walking or driving back home. This happens only when I am going back home through a familiar route - a route that I take often.
That way, a part of my brain knows the route very well and what to do. It controls my legs while walking or my hands while driving. I don't even register what I am doing. While this is happening, my mind wanders, I am lost in these thoughts that consume me. I am thinking through something, remembering an incident or wondering what had happened or would happen.
Before I even realize what had happened, I am at my home. I don't have any conscious thought of how I got in there. It is quite scary.
Until yesterday, I thought this was something that happens only to me. As usual, I tried to search this on the internet and found that this is actually possible. There is a scientific reasoning for this as well.
The human brain amazes me!!!!
Article - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2151137-your-autopilot-mode-is-real-now-we-know-how-the-brain-does-it/
https://www.livescience.com/6557-brain-works-autopilot.html
That is when I realized that I have been in that situation many times. When I am preoccupied with thoughts, my mind switches to auto-pilot mode while I am walking or driving back home. This happens only when I am going back home through a familiar route - a route that I take often.
That way, a part of my brain knows the route very well and what to do. It controls my legs while walking or my hands while driving. I don't even register what I am doing. While this is happening, my mind wanders, I am lost in these thoughts that consume me. I am thinking through something, remembering an incident or wondering what had happened or would happen.
Before I even realize what had happened, I am at my home. I don't have any conscious thought of how I got in there. It is quite scary.
Until yesterday, I thought this was something that happens only to me. As usual, I tried to search this on the internet and found that this is actually possible. There is a scientific reasoning for this as well.
The human brain amazes me!!!!
Article - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2151137-your-autopilot-mode-is-real-now-we-know-how-the-brain-does-it/
https://www.livescience.com/6557-brain-works-autopilot.html
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