It has happened to me a couple times this trip, it did not happen at a camp ground or rest stop it only happened where I was parked in NYI wonder if anyone else has done this.I am parked in the driveway of my mothers house in NY that I am cleaning out the house of personal belongings to sell.A couple times while laying in bed watching TV with my 2 dogs next to me and for a brief second I almost forgot I was about 700 miles from my home in SC.I never got the same feeling in my other RV, maybe it is because this one is larger and just feels more like a home, maybe it is because the old bedroom ceiling was about 5 foot high and the new one is about 6 1/2 feet high. It usually happens if I my dogs wake me up in the middle of the night to be let outside. Or sometimes I fall asleep with the TV on and when I wake up and feel around for the remote to turn it off I forget I am not home.This Alumascape is bigger than the Jayco and it just gives me the feeling I am at home

"Have you forgotten where you are"? Yep!!! Regularly. For 39 years I've worked a rotating shift work schedule of day's, evening's and nights with my days off changing from some time's every week to usually every 6 weeks. Many a day I've awoke and had to think for a few second's as to why I set the alarm and where do I have to be today? It's happened to me in our RV too! More than once I've awoke to the RV clock radio alarm and found myself not sure of where I am, where we are, and what I'm supposed to be doing. Since the early 60's I've had a recurring nightmare. It seem's to alway's show up when I'm most tired after only a few hours sleep and when I'm close to my day's off. I usually take several seconds to clear the head and know life's still good and where I'm at. I'm wondering if after I retire in 299 more days and we start RV'ing 3/4 time, if I'll still have the same dreaded type nightmare wakeups. It's nice to think that maybe retirement and rv'ing 3/4 time will finally cure the dream. Details to follow!!!Happy camping!!! See y'all down the road!!!:)

I can't say I have while in the TT, but I have a few times while either in a hotel or staying at my mothers. I always blamed it on the beer though.

crickeydog wrote:"Have you forgotten where you are"? Yep!!! Regularly. For 39 years I've worked a rotating shift work schedule of day's, evening's and nights with my days off changing from some time's every week to usually every 6 weeks. Many a day I've awoke and had to think for a few second's as to why I set the alarm and where do I have to be today? It's happened to me in our RV too! More than once I've awoke to the RV clock radio alarm and found myself not sure of where I am, where we are, and what I'm supposed to be doing. Since the early 60's I've had a recurring nightmare. It seem's to alway's show up when I'm most tired after only a few hours sleep and when I'm close to my day's off. I usually take several seconds to clear the head and know life's still good and where I'm at. I'm wondering if after I retire in 299 more days and we start RV'ing 3/4 time, if I'll still have the same dreaded type nightmare wakeups. It's nice to think that maybe retirement and rv'ing 3/4 time will finally cure the dream. Details to follow!!!Happy camping!!! See y'all down the road!!!:)I worked as a cop for 20 years and we switched every week from midnight to 8 AM, 8 AM to 4 PM, 4 PM to midnight I would have done anything to work steady tours and it never happened but with my luck the department switched to steady tours about a year after I retired. Working rotating tours for 20 years can mess upm your system, my first year as a rookie I almost didn't show up for work because I thought it was a day off but I was due in at midnight. My department had crazy hours we would only work 4 midnights but would have rotating days off we would come in for the first 2 mids then have a day off and then come back for 2 more days, the next time out we would work 3 days have one day off the come back in for one day

I forgot I was married and couple of times and I went to the wrong house.

I get lost driving around the area where I've lived for 20 years. My problem is that I know what road I'm on, I just don't know if I'm going N,E,S, or W until I pass something I recognize. Brain Fade, and lack of paying attention.Funny part is that I never get lost in the RV, because I plan my route and print out maps. I need a compass in my daily driver.

I have an odd question, have you forgotten where you are?

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soos
Explorer II
Jun 09, 2013
Happens a lot.
We were in TX and stopped at a border stop and the guy asked us questions while the dog sniffed the rig. I try to ignore the conversatin because they usually only want to hear from the driver. So he asked my husband where we were coming from, and he couldn't remember and looks at me in a panic. I hadn't even heard the question, so we sounded suspicious when we couldn't answer. Finally we blurted out "del rio" and he looks at us and says, "oh, i guess you were just passing thru?" We said nope, we were there for 3 days. Now he was REALLY suspicious until we explained we are fulltimers and frequently don't remember where we are. yikes.
Dutch_12078
Explorer III
Jun 09, 2013
I often have to think for a minute when I first wake up to remember exactly where we are. It even happens when we're at our base cottage when we're sleeping in the coach. I've always just attributed it to waking up in a familiar setting that happens to not always be in a familiar location.
noe-place
Explorer
Jun 09, 2013
Sometimes I think my gps device is playing tricks on me with the directions it gives. Maybe it's me but I carry an atlas in the MH now so I can figure out where we are.:R
BBFD
Explorer
Jun 09, 2013
Happens to me frequently. I spend around 150 nights on the road for work/in hotels and often cannot keep track of one week from another. I thought maybe it was due to me now being a bit older.....
Z-Peller
Explorer
Jun 09, 2013
We were talking about this subject several months ago but for a different reason. Our thought was what would happen if we woke up in the middle of the night and one of us needed the paramedics. Not knowing where you are could become a very serious problem very quickly in the panic of the moment. I installed a white board inside the kitchen cabinet and we write down where we are and what spot we're in. Luckily we haven't needed it.

X2...we do the same....jot down gps lat & long if out in the boonies.....not much use calling 911 in the middle of the night for help if you don't know where you are!!
Valkyriebush
Explorer II
Jun 09, 2013
Often, while inside a Walmart!
colliehauler
Explorer III
Jun 09, 2013
If I wake from a sound sleep in the RV some times it takes a few seconds to remember I'm in the RV and not at home.
hershey
Explorer
Jun 09, 2013
What was the question???? I forgot...
RVTravler
Explorer
Jun 09, 2013
We have been full timing for 5 and half years and have had 151 different camping sites so it happens to me a lot. I wake up some mornings and for a few seconds I have to think and remind myself what campground we are at. Sometimes I even have to look out the window.
noe-place
Explorer
Jun 08, 2013
Hey Drillagent, thank you for serving your country. Enjoy being back home and have a great life. Thanks again.