Ever "zone out" while playing a game?

[Flour]

In WoW when I'm not zoned out I can't play at all and get bored after a few minutes.

I've had it happen a lot more with books and movies though, and often have to see/read the same thing multiple times to fully remember it.

 

[Geekosaurus]

It happens all the time. But then you're aware that you've zoned out and subsequently you instantly get worse and you wish you'd just ignored it.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Rarely in games. Fuck, it happens all the time in Math class though...

 

[Mrkittycat]

I can purposely zone out when listening to a specific band or song. I daydream, and when it's over, I am sad.

 

[socialtangent]

I get like that when I play multiplayer games, TF2 and MW2 especially.

 

[minarri]

Usually it only happens when I'm playing flash games or whatever. You know, the repetitive button-clickers.

 

[Howtheturntables]

I do this CONSTANTLY when im driving. I will just go on autopilot and then think to myself "Thank god nothing happened that would have caused an accident... because I wouldnt have noticed it. In reality, I think I would have noticed it only because I stop at reds when im in the zone and other stuff like that, but sometimes I find myself forgetting whether or not I went the speed limit on a certain road or something like that

 

[BehattedWanderer]

There's a few elements of gameplay I find tedious. Shooters, usually, leave something to be desired, and I find myself auto-piloting myself through it. Old games I can breeze through. Or. in certain games, when I've hit high enough level and just breeze through the fights with a ultimate attack combinations of the moment...yeah, it happens a few times.

 

[Frog_Girl]

usually happens when I'm trying to multi-task like when I get a call and decide to not pause the game.

 

[PurplePlatypus]

I don?t really zone out like that with games, I do mostly with books and occasionally with movies if I end up on some thought tangent. It?s probably strongest with books because I end up watching it in my mind, so I focus on that and don?t realise I?m still reading on. Not that I don?t zone out with games, It?s just more of a, oh shit where did the last 3 hours go kind of deal. That kind of zoning out happens more often and with a lot more things.

On a similar note, anyone zoned out while they were walking somewhere? It used to happen in school going to class. I would just start thinking about something and suddenly I?m at the classroom, that or heading to a different destination than I should have been because my auto pilot got it wrong.

 

[FullMetalTrenchcoat]

Mostly happens for me when I don't really care about the game I'm playing, I played most of Uncharted 2 on auto-pilot.

 

[p3t3r]

sometimes that happens when i play hockey or badminton i zone back in and have no idea what just happened usually it is just rallying and stuff though