I Guess My Consciousness Is Less Essential Than I Thought

The other day, I was walking home while talking on the phone, a task that requires me to cross a major downtown throughfare without an intersection. Normally, there are many cars and I have to wait some time to find a good opportunity and, even then, I will have to run to avoid getting hit. This time, I have no idea what happened. A few blocks later, I realized I was close to home and had no recollection of the previous three blocks. Come to think of it, this same thing has occurred while I'm on the phone in the car, too. I wonder how my mind would respond to an abnormality (or did respond, I guess) and if it could handle the necessary emergent variations. I hope so.