Who amongst you get zoned?

I've been there and I'm almost always by myself when it happens. Too many distractions when I'm with someone else.
 
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Yep, the zone is actually a common state of mind - sportsmen get it (particularly in individual and adrenaline sports like motor racing). I get it when I'm taking photos occasionally, but more often I'll get zoned driving or playing computer games. Its a higher state of consciousness where you aren't concentrating on what you are doing - your body goes on autopilot and the mind flies. With racing drivers its essential - I saw a documentary a while back explaining that the very best (Schumacher, Senna, etc.) devote virtually no thought to actually driving the car

Its moving in to other sports - the football team I support has just started yoga classes for the players, with most of the focus on the mental side of yoga (and of course stretching and manipulation...)
 
I'm rather a shy person, although externally I don't look shy at all, yet I have these "zoned" moments where I completely become careless about any fears or whatever else, losing my shyness and not caring no matter how large the crowd can be. I just aim and shoot... These are always great moments :)

And it's better with an RF than with an SLR :)

It happens to me also when I'm practising sports (especially when I was doing Sambo) and also sometimes when I'm playing first-person-shooting computer games.
 
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