What does it feel like to be suddenly taken out of CMS?
Have you ever been invested in a great book only to have someone keep interrupting you mid-sentence to tell you stuff you didn’t really care about? Have you ever watched a show that you couldn’t turn away from only to have to go to work? Have you ever played a video game and had to quit halfway to a save point? This, for me at least, is what it is like to have IIM interrupted. When I am steaming to help me focus on a book it doesn’t really bother me, but the stories I conduct with my IIM aren’t something that I can just pause and go back to easily. Unlike a movie, the material isn’t permanently there, it only appears during the times that I am stemming.
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It depends on the trigger. If it was triggered by emotion, I won’t notice that I was taken out of it because I never realized I was doing it. If it was triggered by focusing, then it will just be like someone broke my train of thought. However, if I get pulled out of IIM suddenly, it is pretty disorienting since it takes me a second to adjust back out of the world in my head, and it is just sort of inherently frustrating. I’m not necessarily frustrated for a specific reason, I just tend to feel frustrated when I get suddenly pulled out of IIM.
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Sometimes it’s a little jarring. But I’m so used to it that I usually don’t give it much thought. I don’t lose track of who or where I am when I do them, so it’s not that different from being in the middle of a daydream about something and then having someone say something that pulls you back into the moment.
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