Have you ever wanted to be lost?

I’ll be interested to see the answers because I have felt this way at times too.

I also think it would be cool for a little bit. Just hope I don’t encounter any smoke monsters.

I haven’t really ever felt this way. I have wanted to lose myself in a certain location, but just temporarily. I don’t want to truly be lost because I know what it’s like and it’s a bit scary. I prefer to get lost in places like El Dorado County, California. I love getting absorbed in the mountain biking trails and the wilderness and just getting “lost” there for a while. But to actually have to live out there in the wilderness and fend for myself, no thanks. I just enjoy it as a temporary escape. I just have to make sure I have water and mosquito repellent.

I have gotten myself lost before, and the cool factor goes way down real fast.

This theme is likely to do with control. You might want to lose control, or want more control. This seems perfectly natural, and something that I would encourage. If you want to do this, do it. I think it would help you savor life and discover possibilities.

I’ve never really wanted to be lost. (Not since a bunch of us went camping in Arizona, wandered off the trail, and got lost overnight. And I sat on a cactus.) However, what I have found myself wanting is to be in a place where it would be POSSIBLE to get lost. For instance, I would love to be in a wilderness area where there were no humans for hundreds of miles. I don’t want to get lost in this, but I would like the solitude.

If that makes any sense.

All. The. Time.

@Dr_Dredd That makes perfect sense. It’s something I always want to do.. It’s also something I don’t lose the desire to do after time. I could stay “lost” in such a way for(almost)ever and be happy.

I thought this was about the show lost :(

@hug_of_war Not at all. In fact I dislike the show because it is so much less about really being lost than I thought. It’s preposterous to me. I was hoping it would be more of a swiss family robinson type thing.. XD

I’m not sure I could stay “lost” like that forever. (Mainly because I’d start talking to myself if I was alone too long…) For a few days or weeks, though, it would be great!

Not really – I wouldn’t be able to survive.

Oh yeah! and I WAS lost once. I was helplessly adrift in a boat that had run out of gas in the middle of the lake. All the other boats had gone in for the day, and night was coming on. Well, my husband knew I was out there (and it was HIS FAULT) but there wasn’t a damn thing he could do about it, except wait for me to drift ashore. Didn’t get out till 11:00 that night. After the initial “OMG! What do I do!” wore off….I had an absolutely WONDERFUL time for the next 3 hours! I had six beers and enough cigarettes, a book and a reading light. What more could anyone want? :) I read, I pretended to fish (with beer), I made up stories of sharks and Ocean liners to tell myself. I was great company! :)

When i was young, i love to get lost with my family. I was so happy when dad misses the exit in the highway, or dad couldnt find the way out from another city.

I ran away from home when I was 14. That’s kind of like wanting to be lost. I got pretty far too! But I didn’t get very long… I mean, I covered a great distance in a single day, and then called home.

For me, it was about extreme boredom and a lack of feeling grounded. I suspect in an adult the desire to be lost would be about different things. I haven’t had this feeling since I was a kid. Maybe it is about testing yourself – wanting to see how self-sufficient you can be? Why not do some adventure camping – live off the land, you know? (In winter!)

I’m starting to think it’s because modern day society isn’t for everyone. There is nothing wrong in wanting to leave commercial billboards, pollution, beauty standards and other imposed acceptable standards behind.

@Dr_Dredd You mean to say you don’t talk to yourself on a regular basis? I do it all the time, I thought everyone did…

Oh God yes! You know how I like to please people and make them like to have me around? Well, when they tell me to “get lost,” I would dearly like to oblige, but for some reason, wherever I go, there I am. And as long as I’m there, I’m not lost.

I have definately felt what you have described within the question. I reckon it is because sometimes we feel society becomes too much and you just want to break away into solitude let go of everything and think to yourself or reflect on the world in an attempt to understand it or give yourself time to absorb things.

@Adagio Oh, yes. I do talk to myself all the time. The trouble is when I start talking back and having elaborate conversations. :)

@Dr_Dredd Ah, I quite understand. Yes, you have every reason to be worried about that :)

You are not lost if you don’t care where you are going.

I was lost for years or so before I started deciding what I do and don’t care about.