I think we’ve got some drivers around here who drive like that.
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SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
doughless@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I do that stupidly often when reading stories.