Have you ever tuned out when someone was talking to you?

This happens regularly with me. The problem is I am not a good listener and if I do not interrupt regularly, my mind just goes of into the wild horizon.

It happens al the time :) I have a little trick though, if i tuned out i just pretend that i was listening the whole time by agreeing and repeating the last words in the sentence. It does the trick, very few people figure out i wasn't listening.

lol! ohh yess yes...i think its because i always have a million of things on my mind,and i dont mean to be rude it just happens.I usually a great listener and good advisor,,but when i have things that are overwelming me,i usually tel ppl in advance im not fully here,but ill try to give you my all:)

Hello! Yes, sometimes I do do this and most times I dont mean to . Just last week I did this with my finace . We were having a fight and he wanted to go on and on and I just wanted to head up to the track to get my walking in . He rode me there and walked with me . Within about 10 mins he started to complain and the fighting started and I just blocked him out as best as I could.

My boss has a tendency to talk to herself so I tune her out most of the time. I've gotten really good at knowing when she's talking to herself and when she's talking to me...it's when she is talking to herself and suddenly decides to include me in the discussion that I get caught One of my funniest stories about tuning someone out, though, isn't my own but one of a couple of friends. A group of us had gotten together at the library to study and to keep each other motivated on studying. Two of the group were in a class together so M asked C to explain something that had come up in class. So C spends a good five minutes talking and suddenly M breaks in and says "I'm sorry, what did you say? I wasn't listening." She had tuned out somewhere around a minute into the five minute explanation and missed pretty much all of it.