Automated legs
Sometimes when I’m tired or ill, I can get into a state walking home where my legs are on ‘automatic’, and seem to be disconnected from my brain and the rest of me. I seem to be able to just put the gear stick into drive, and then sit back. It’s almost like traveling in a vehicle, or riding on your father’s shoulders when you were little, or even wearing a pair of Techno Trousers (ex-NASA!). You can look around, daydream or just generally relax while your legs mechanically eat up the kilometres. Weird.
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Funny, always thought I couldn't be the only one.
Some mornings I can have the same thing but with a twist. It almost feels as if I'm travelling backwards. Not entirely a good feeling when I have to hurry.
(btw) lovely website
Mishimi----- It happens to me a few hours or days into hiking. Stopping fells strange and unnatural.
by Daniel Von Fange @ 14/12/2005 4:12 am • Permalink •
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Automated legs is of course bad enough, but I really hate it when I´ve been running my brain on automatic pilot. This realisation strikes me, figuratively speaking, just as wake up enough to see that I´m about to fly into a cliff or that I should have tanked before take off (figuratively speaking). How many times have I roared off in my car in the wrong direction basically because of the direction of a temporarily habitual workplace? At times like that I tend to mutter one of the few remaining 60`s slogans I´ve retained "Be here now, be here now , be here now ...". This lasts until I realise that I´m so concentrated on "be here now " that I´m once again somewhere else.
by john(jc.) @ 14/12/2005 7:13 am • Permalink •
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This seems similar to how you rarely need to think about breathing. Indeed, you become so accustomed to it being an automatic process that it can be profoundly annoying when it is not.
by Milan Ilnyckyj @ 14/12/2005 7:13 am • Permalink •
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Sounds like you're reaching an active meditative state. It's good for you to do so every once in a while. Consider it a system reboot.
by Carla @ 15/12/2005 1:12 pm • Permalink •
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Funny; that basically always happens when I have a destination and more than a few hundred metres to walk.
by Aristotle Pagaltzis @ 21/12/2005 11:13 pm • Permalink •
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