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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

This is why studying takes me 4 times longer than the average person. I have to reread so many things to make it sync in. It annoys me how somone can just look or read something once and they have it already

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

It's called "looking at memes".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Linking an obscure community that I made. You're my favourite lemmite

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait? XD You did? I didn't realize it was you...
I really love your concept by the way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks. I've started quite a few. Infact you've probably seen a few of em. [email protected] for example

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Actually no or maybe I forgot. But [email protected] stuck out because it resonate so much with me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I've done this with audio books.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank god this relatable to so many of us, I was wondering if this was a symptom of a larger disorder whenever this happens to me.

The worst is when I'm reciting word for word technical information about chemistry or physics, because I often like to explain how things work to friends and family while I work on stuff, and then I'll get interrupted or distracted and have no memory of wtf I was just saying for the last several minutes straight.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Sure. Or it's just tiredness and completely normal to happen.

[–] rumba 47 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Back when I came into the office every day, it was a 45-minute commute. At least one day every week, I had no active memory of getting from the north side of the beltway to my house (about 20-25 minutes). I'd reach this point, and it was like someone flipped a switch, and I became aware that I existed.

I've done this with Audio Books. I've listened to 2-3 chapters, and they'll mention an assassin; Brain goes, wait, assassin? WHAT ASSASSIN? I start rolling back find out I completely tuned out 20 minutes of the story.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah getting out of your car and realizing you have no idea how you got here is spooky.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is why I can't listen to audio books. I just get lost in the soothing voice and my mind wonders. Paper books are where it's at.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Podcasts and technology connections on YouTube. I totally enjoy them, but if I'm halfway tired and my mind doesn't want to focus and I put either on, I'm passing out after 10 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yea but then you realize that you have now made the audiobook last 30mins longer, so it's a win... especially if it's a good book.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I did find this paper where somebody used the term “mindless reading”

Smallwood, J. (2011). Mind‐wandering while reading: attentional decoupling, mindless reading and the cascade model of inattention. Language and Linguistics Compass, 5(2), 63–77. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818x.2010.00263.x

Seems that is the term used for it such as this talk in 2006

https://ies.ed.gov/director/conferences/06ies_conference/posters/readingtq_reichle.asp

Abstract: "Mindless reading" occurs when, during reading, our eyes continue to move across the printed page in spite of the fact that we are busy thinking about things that are often completely unrelated to the text.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can sometimes do this without my attention even shifting. I'll mentally read every word individually for a while, but forget to put them together to actually understand them.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This was a symptom of ADHD that I discussed with my doctor when I got diagnosed tbh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Is this an indicator or straight up ADHD specific? Because this is me constantly

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Is it an actual ADD symptom? I do this all the time.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

Yes, but many things are symptoms of ADHD, but no single symptom alone is a sign of ADHD.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeap, one of the BIG ones according to multiple doctors I've seen

Either that or dyslexia can apparently cause this too, according to my dyslexic friend in HS

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I could do this, reading out loud even. And not know what the fuck I just read for the last 10 minutes.

And yes, I have ADHD.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Dissociation, of course.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

~~Cruise control.~~
Autopilot, like Szeth said below.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's better. I think i mixed it up.
My brain goes into cruisepilot a lot.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think it could be argued for a state of hypnosis, like how people drive for miles but just don't remember how they did it entirely.

Difference is, you clearly drove and got there safely. You didn't read the words on the page, you just moved your eyes across ink blots.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I was a professional driver for 20 years. I can attest that autopilot is a real thing.

It’s easy to monitor traffic on either side but end up daydreaming and miss a turn.

I’ve been out of the transport industry for five years now and I still occasionally find myself auto-piloting to places I used to deliver to. It’s so weird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I drove black cars for a bit, I've definitely just taken the airport exit once when I was out of it. Glad I'm not alone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah. It’s not a big deal, but how you handle it really matters. (This is advice for anyone else reading; I’m sure you know.)

If you miss your turn because you’re daydreaming or whatever, just keep going. DO NOT swerve three lanes over to an exit or whatever other dumb shit. You fucked up. Deal with it without putting other people in danger.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

I call it “ADHD” because I damn sure was thinking about 3 other things while I was reading-notreading.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I call it "five too many coffee cups today". When I cut off from coffee, I become able to follow a text much better.

I can drink as many tea cups that I can without throwing up and not get the same jitter-effect so it doesn't seem to be just caffeine.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Surely there's a very long German word for it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Attentiondefißithyperactivitydißorder

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More like Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörung.

By the way, using the 'ß' as you did would force the preceding vowel to have a stretched pronunciation.

And I don't know about you, but in my opinion defeeßit and deeßorder sounds awful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

That conversation looked like bots anyway

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

While this is more common for people with ADHD, it can happen to anyone.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

True, but I only get so many opportunities to use that silly ß

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

As an ADHD person, sight reading is actually my shitty superpower. I don't understand it, but my difficulty is just starting the book. But once I'm in it's pure hyper focus.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It 's not that long, I think it is called "Leselücke" (reading gap).

If you want, you could call it "Lesegedankenwanderungsamnesie" (reading wandering thought amnesia) 🤔

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

at least 35 syllables long and you'll forget what your reading halfway through the word.

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