What makes you zone out during the day?

I think a better question for me in this case would be what makes me zone IN lols. I'm usually zoned out throughout the day whatever it is I might be doing even when I'm in the office or in my room I often find myself just staring at the walls. I have a very active imagination I can daydream practically the whole day. Sometimes I wonder if things were the other way around wherein my daydream was real and I'm daydreaming about being in an office! Great topic, very interesting! ++! :)

I like this discussion question. I give you props. I usually zone out in school. Boring or uninteresting lectures are usually the trigger. I tend to start thinking about what I'm going to do that night or my boyfriend. It's a terrible habit when the class is hard. I haven't zoned out as much as in college as I did in high school though.

I always tend to zone out during my classes, just because I'm so bored with the lectures, and I'm usually out of it for fifteen minutes at a time. My friend has to poke me every now and then to make sure I don't doze off! Usually I just think about my crush of the week or what I want to eat for lunch :) I zone out when I'm studying for my exams too, I'm not sure why. I think if I try to study for too long at a time I feel like my head'll implode. :/

Being sleep-deprived can lead you to get bored easily and zone out. Also, it seems like some people are bigger daydreamers than others. I mean, I feel like I spend 90% of my day daydreaming whereas other people seem to spend 5% of their days daydreaming. It may be due to my personality-type (I'm an INFP on the Myers-Briggs), but I'm not sure about the personality concept. I've spoken with other people about it, and they've suggested that it might be due to stress or anxiety, but I find that I still daydream even if I have nothing that I am stressing or anxious about. It's just who I am. The internal world is more interesting to the external world to some people, I guess. Supposedly, some people can't stand peace and quiet because they aren't daydreaming types, so they like to constantly have conversation with the people around them while others can stand peace and quiet because daydreaming is more interesting to them than the external activity.

I work nigh shifts, and this is most likely to happen to me around 2 or 3AM when my body begins to feel sleepy. Suddenly I'll look at the clock to realise that I should have made a safety call, and wonder where I have been for 20 minutes or so.