Zoning Out Quotes

Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?

Television is a passivity.

You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

When I get time off, my brain is just, that's it. I sit. I veg. People will think that I'm upset or not happy, but I'm just exhausted. I'm just zoned out.

I'm really lucky because I can sleep on planes. I wear an eye mask, I have a book, and I sit down and pass out pretty easily. I know that not everyone can. I think I'm good at it because I travel so much, and for me, being on planes is like a sacred time. It's the only time to zone out and meditate.

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.

I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life

I have moments like that alot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I know I've missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it. -- Percy Jackson

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it's mostly those moments in which it's smarter-safer- to stay awake.