Do get lost in thought and drift into thought mean the same thing?
She gets lost in thought.
She drifts into thought
anonymous She gets lost in thought. Natural and common. anonymous She drifts into thought Perfetly possible (if you end with a suitable mark of punctuation) but not at all the same as the first one.
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anonymousShe gets lost in thought.
Natural and common.
anonymousShe drifts into thought
Perfetly possible (if you end with a suitable mark of punctuation) but not at all the same as the first one. When she drifts into thought, she unconsciously begins to think, which is a pretty odd thing to say however grammatical