This is my go-to as well. "I'm sorry, my audio dropped out, I didn't quite catch that".

I’m stealing this. This is smooth as fuck.

Unless you've got some guy who knows multitasking is a bunch of bullshit and you just weren't paying attention and is enough of a dick to say it

For some of us, it’s both.

Yes, but you accidentally shared the one with the porn.

Are you an office drone dreaming you're a cowboy or a cowboy dreaming you're an office drone?

man was dissociating during a work zoom call while thinking about dissociating and whether it was "dissociating" or "dissasociating". he was pulled from his daydream by the person in the call asking him if Thursday was good. then they're all waiting for his answer and he doesn't even know what was asked.

I’ll tell you something that has worked for me, and it’s the only thing that works.

Music.

Learn enough to improvise and just dive into it. Today I fastforwarded through three straight hours banging drumsticks on plastic buckets at work. I can make whole days disappear just playing my guitar. I disappear completely and just get lost in the sound. It puts me in a trance and I forget I was ever a person.

It might not work for you, but wouldn’t it be rad if it did?

And don’t think it’s too late to learn. My ex sat down at a piano bench at 26 and said, “I want to learn this.” So she did. About a year later she said, “I’d like to learn to play your guitar.” She learned to play it and that’s what she did every evening for years.

Nothing takes me out of this world like playing music.

They have mushrooms for that

Everyone dissociates to a degree. I can guarantee you are doing it at least a little bit. It doesn’t always look or feel like being out of your body. It can be as simple as avoiding feeling feelings by doing things or by being too cognitive.