Loosing time.

[Tom]

It happens to me from time to time, and I know how troublesome it can be. What I tell myself is that during the time I don't remember, I must have been acting along the lines of my normal tendencies. You can trust yourself. Are you under any particular stress of which you are aware?

[Mobius]

G,day Cainam

This sounds like what Robert Bruce mentions in Astral Dynamics about spending too much time in the astral, it happens to me as well from time to time. I can't remember the actual page number, but I think it was something along the lines of giving too much time to thought, in other words spending too much time in the lower levels of the astral. I didn't think there was any validity to the statement until I recognised that I was spending so much time mulling over things in my mind & things in my waking physical life suffered.

I noticed that lately you have clocked up quite a few posts & I remember when I was that active in this forum & how just replying to posts & being on a site like this, translates into a lot of thinking time & tasks that were once automatic like driving etc. become clouded, while I ponder on the mysteries of life.

It's a tough trade off because those thoughts are just important to you as the colour of the traffic lights, but our physical bodies have to stay in the physical & are subject to obeying the laws of society as well as physics. So extra care must be taken to ensure which tasks get priority. Robert also mentioned that if over activity is experienced or your physical life is suffering at the expense of your non physical life, stop all reading on OBE's, don't do any metaphysical tapes or cd's, concentrate on the physical life more & do all those boring things you need to do to get you back into the physical & grounded.

Good journeys in the physical mate

Mobius

[cainam_nazier]

Sound advise.

I do find myself a slight more "distracted" by the subject as of late.  But I have a handfull of questions that I feel must be answered and so I pursue.  Maybe a healthy break is something I need.


David Rogalski
cainam_nazier@hotmail.com
I am he who walks in the light but is masked by the shadows.

[WalkerInTheWoods]

Maybe you are just getting old. Just kidding.  This is very common. I think we all have experienced this, especially when driving. After driving to work the same way time after time it becomes old and we get bored paying attention. So we go off to our thoughts and I guess it is our subconscious that takes over driving. I have gone long periods without knowing what happened while I was driving to work. Sometimes I remember leaving home and then suddenly I am almost to work. Kind of scary but as long as you are ok then nothing bad happened. I seem to notice that if I am "out there" and something like a car pulls out in front of me or just something to mess up the regular course of things then I snap back. The scary thing is stop lights and stop signs. I always wonder what I did when I came to them. Luckily for me there are not many on my way to work.

[steveb]

Greetings all,

Caimam, It's a matter of self awareness, such a simple thing in principle, but so hard to do.  Mobius is correct in that it's a trade off, but it shoudn't be.  I've found whilst on a spiritual path it's the base of all else, "being in the momment". Most people would say they are the momment when asked. A good test to see how in the momment you are is in the shower. When you have a shower, be aware of the fact that your having a shower. It doesn't take long for thoughts to interupt. Out of all tasks I do during the day I find haveing a shower the most difficult to be in the momment. In the past, showering was organisation time, the motor centre would run on auto for the washing, and the interlectual centre would kick in for the organization. It's the same with driving.
             In the past the driving thing was a worry, concidering my job is mostly that. With self awareness i dont have the memory lapse problem any more. Self awareness( being in the momment ) is not an easy thing to achieve, at first it's very confronting,  but once into it, it changes your whole perspective on the innerself and makes you understand the way life is supposed to be.

Regards  Steve

[kakkarot]

cainam: yeah this happened to me at one point in highschool. i would daydream so intently that even my subconscious would forget what happened over the period of time that my consciousness was left in daydreams. so i programmed my brain to keep a "streaming" memory of the past three or four minutes, at all times. this way, even when my consciousness is completely lost in itself, i can recall (almost) everything that was going on around me at the time. try it, it is pretty useful.

~kakkarot

Secret of Secrets

[cainam_nazier]

The thing that bothers me is that there is no memory at all.  I don't remember what I was doing or even if I was thinking of anything.  I couldn't even tell you if I was asleep or awake.  There is just nothing.


David Rogalski
cainam_nazier@hotmail.com
I am he who walks in the light but is masked by the shadows.

[cainam_nazier]

Has anyone experienced a lose of time?  Or gaps in memory?

I have been since highschool loosing short periods of time.  Some times silly things other times slightly more serious items.  Although the real problem being that I am experiencing this more often now.  
It happens some what oddly.   I am usually doing something, driving, walking, doing stuff at work and so on.  Then it is like sudden realization and I try to remember what I was doing over the last 5, 10, or even 15 mins.  Sometimes I can recall but not usually.  No matter how much I try it is just blank.  There is nothing there.  I am becoming more concernd with this because of it happening when I am driving.  I'll like a 1/4 or 1/2 mile past a stop light and I can't recall what color it was.  I do not know if it was green or if it was red and I just went through it anyhow.  
I am becomeing concerned with it because of the potential risk.  I do not know if I am blacking out or what.  I am not ever tired when this happens, and I don't really like the idea that I can't remember what happened.  I mean what if this goes on and I blow through a stop light and hit some one?   A lot of what I do at work also is potentially dangerous if you are not paying attention.
Does any one else have this problem? Or even better know of a way to fix the situation?


David Rogalski
cainam_nazier@hotmail.com
I am he who walks in the light but is masked by the shadows.