Thanks. I'm glad this is likely something where I will not end up just stuck in my head. I've never heard it termed "highway hypnosis", but I've experienced that, so has H. Such as we will be going someplace on the weekend, but H is on auto-pilot and starts driving his route to work.

Running and exercising it happens a lot. I think I purposely dissociated a lot do all that exercise when my ED was bad; I am talking upward of 4, 5 hours a day exercising and not eating enough just so I could get through the pain & exhaustion.

Sometimes I think about something in particular and sometimes not. I had a lot of trauma and did it from an early age, so I suppose it is something of a coping mechanism too. And one of the ones I learned earliest to use.

Now, the time I had it with psychosis and could not tell what was real and what was not, that was scary. I repeatedly kept saying I didn't know if I was really saying what I was saying or not and if what I was seeing was real (it was, I just couldn't distinguish it from a false reality). I am not sure what brought that episode on, but I hope never to go through something like that again.