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Highway/Road Hypnosis

1/30/2013

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"Highway hypnosis, also known as white line fever, is a mental state in which a person can drive a truck or automobile great distances, responding to external events in the expected manner with no recollection of having consciously done so. In this state, the driver's conscious mind is apparently fully focused elsewhere, with seemingly direct processing of the masses of information needed to drive safely. Highway hypnosis is just one manifestation of a relatively commonplace experience, where the conscious and unconscious minds appear to concentrate on different things." -Source

I get something similar to this while driving. When I drive for long distances, especially in the dark, the road going by sort of hypnotizes me and it becomes very hard to stay awake or to pay attention or anything. Everything starts to look weird and I start not blinking as much to keep my eyes open, which seriously doesn't help the whole getting tired thing. 

I'm only blogging quickly about this because I want to make sure that, if any of you experience the symptoms of road hypnosis (which I did BIG time while driving all day yesterday) that you know to PULL OVER AND TAKE A BREAK. It is VERY dangerous.VERY, VERY DANGEROUS. You can't react as quickly to things and if you fall asleep while controlling a speeding hunk of metal, things aren't going to end well for you or anyone who happens to be driving near you.

SO PULL OVER.

<3 - CFC
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