Dear Gaia:

I am very familiar with spacing out and not paying attention, happened often and a whole lot. I am more attentive these days and am glad for it!

I used to be so focused on the images in my mind, what you called “mental scenarios” in my own mind, conversations between me and other people included, that I didn’t pay attention to the images in my real life, or to what people in real life were saying.

Well, thinking about it I still don’t remember what was in front of my eyes a moment before, or even days and months before, I still don’t pay attention much to physical details around me.

Yes, it is that living inside one’s head, that is, turned inward, focuses on one own’s images and thoughts and sensations, so much so that we are not turned outward, and don’t notice what is outside of us.

anita