Talk:Highway hypnosis

message: ? does it have something to do with mullholand drive ? film by David Lynch
theme was road as i recall (ay:) main hero was kind of split-personality/traveling in time/his brain(memories). all was connected with road
: It has nothing to do with that. 208.81.43.46 (talk) 00:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: A note

message: Somebody vandalized this page, it has to be cleaned.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.200.114.202 (talk) 04:12, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: it seems like the person who created this was just trying to describe automaticity taking place while driving. both articles are fairly short and this just seems unnecessary.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Clockwrist (talk • contribs) 02:26, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: They r murders and they know it turn your self in to the law admitting the truth we can save u from prosecution 67.1.151.176 (talk) 05:38, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Huh? AvignonCatholicism (talk) 14:15, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: what is the significance of this article?

message: Is this perhaps a synonym to altered state of consciousness? Because that seems to be what this article is talking about. 72.184.79.105 (talk) 00:30, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Altered State of Consciousness

message: I thought highway hypnosis was when you drove along a stretch of a straight road and, consequentially, lose maximal awareness and concentration. Not become amnesic. EricLeb01 (Page | Talk) 00:44, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have faced it like this: when driving you suddently realise from sign by the road you have driven so far and get a thought "how did i get here already". Neighbor told a story he was driving a truck and was "awaken" in some point that "where the h*ll we are". He made a turn in some point and was far away from correct destination.--RicHard-59 (talk) 12:14, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Is this the reason they stopped building motorways dead straight, and started designing them with bends? Valetude (talk) 17:38, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Huh?

message: I wouldn't normally ask about this, but I think there's a good point in asking:
The article has a list in the "popular culture" section with a link to The X-Files repeated three times. I'm wondering whether there's a precedent, indicating when I would leave repeated links alone and when I would delink all but the first/primary one(s). Thanks. AexisTalk/Contribs 00:14, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Link duplication in consecutive list bullets

message: This article is not clear about what exactly it is informing about. Besides describing in better detail what highway hypnosis is and how it happens the article should list statistics about the phenomena and warn about the risk and dangers of it as well. Furthermore, how to prevent highway hypnosis and recognize the signs that it could be happening. (AMJonesPT (talk) 02:19, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: more descriptive

message: The article says the term was coined in 1963, but the Google nGram viewer shows use as early as 1949 and wide usage by the mid-1950s.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.115.7.2 (talk) 15:56, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Earliest use of term 

message: I think it would be really helpful to readers if there was a paragraph explaining how to prevent it. This is an important topic related to highway hypnosis.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.130.178.2 (talk) 19:34, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Ways to Avoid It

message: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/n4kbx8/til_highway_hypnosis_is_an_altered_mental_state/
I gotta track down the sources, but I distinctly remember from driver’s ed that this “altered mental state” isn’t some neutral phenomenon. In this state, you’re not paying attention to the road, and it gets people killed. Now we have thousands of young people believing it’s okay that they space out when they drive because of this stub. Fantastic. I have a hard time imagining this won’t get someone killed.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.114.189.77 (talk • contribs) 13:38, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Please provide reliable sources. What you remember from driver's ed does not count. AfricanChristmas (talk) 22:37, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  This misinformation ended up on the front page of reddit...