Changes in awareness while awake, including daydreaming, mind-wandering, trance, highway hypnosis and hypnosis. A phenomenon belongs here when its cited article describes a shift in waking awareness. Every member sits in the Psychology Atlas as its own page with a definition, cited sources and links to related effects, so the group works as a reading path through Waking Altered States rather than as a claim that the members share one cause. Where scholars disagree about how an effect should be classified, the member page says so.
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Wikipedia: Highway hypnosis
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Highway hypnosis, also known as white line fever, is an altered mental state in which an automobile driver can drive lengthy distances and respond adequately to external events with no recollection of consciously having done so.
Wikipedia: Mind-wandering
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Mind-wandering is broadly defined as thoughts that are task-unrelated and stimulus-independent.
Daydreaming (Wikipedia)
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Daydreaming is a stream of consciousness that detaches from current external tasks when one's attention becomes focused on a more personal and internal direction.
Trance (Wikipedia)
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Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless capable of pursuing and realizing an aim) or is selectively responsive in following the directions of the person (if any) who has induced the trance.
Wikipedia: Altered state of consciousness
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An altered state of consciousness (ASC), also called an altered state of mind, altered mental status (AMS), or mind alteration, is any condition which is significantly different from a normal waking state.
Hypnosis (Wikipedia)
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Hypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention (the selective attention/selective inattention hypothesis, SASI), reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.
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