Do you ever feel detached from the world?

[Blunderstar]

It's a weird feeling that I can't describe very well, but I'll try my best.

It never happens when I'm at home, or in a safe, familiar place. For example, let's say I'm in a new setting, like a new job. I'm in a whole new building, with new people, and new work to do. I'll be there for an hour or so, and then think, "Wait... am I really here? It doesn't make sense that I'm fucking here. " and then I think I'm going to wake up in my room or something.

I feel really fucking detached from where I am, like I don't belong in that plane of existance or something. Does anybody have any idea what I'm talking about?

[arleybob]

yeah I get kinda what you're saying. Sometimes I feel pretty third-persony and everything kinda dies.. my emotions, reaction-time, thoughts... everything just kinda stops and I feel like I just "lose" it. Not like go crazy, just stop really being there.

It happened while I was typing that up.

[Junior Jacon Jeese Jurger]

I get it at least a couple times a day but it fades away after a bit. I really don't like when it happens at work or when I'm driving.

[Junior Jacon Jeese Jurger]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization

[Tokerface]

I've been feeling like that 24/7 for the past 5 years. Benzos temporarily help.

[Blunderstar]

Originally Posted by Junior Jacon Jeese Jurger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization

That's it. Awesome.

[Zok Jr.]

I experience this occasionally as well. At least I think I do. Fuck, I don't know.

[Mutant Funk Drink]

I used to have those moments a lot more when I was a kid. These days, I still analyze pretty much everything that goes on around me so whenever I feel that way, it just seems natural.

Some days, I think of my daily ventures as 3rd person. Like "look at my day". And when I do that, the world around me sometimes falls out of relevance.

[reject]

Only when I take disassociatives.

[Edge]

Originally Posted by reject

Only when I take disassociatives.

Only other time I feel detached is in depressive phase of bi-polar.

Originally Posted by Junior Jacon Jeese Jurger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization

That's part of the feel.

[The Pat-Man]

Yea I have surreal depersonalization episodes, my brain just crawls into its shell sometimes. I've come to kind of enjoy them, it's like being high for free.

[Mirana]

Originally Posted by Blunderstar

It's a weird feeling that I can't describe very well, but I'll try my best.

It never happens when I'm at home, or in a safe, familiar place. For example, let's say I'm in a new setting, like a new job. I'm in a whole new building, with new people, and new work to do. I'll be there for an hour or so, and then think, "Wait... am I really here? It doesn't make sense that I'm fucking here. " and then I think I'm going to wake up in my room or something.

I feel really fucking detached from where I am, like I don't belong in that plane of existance or something. Does anybody have any idea what I'm talking about?

yup people drown swimming cause they think they are not there. it's fucked

although I doubt you have a serious depersonalization. Probably just some retard version of where you are socially awkward and spend to much time in your head.

[Blunderstar]

It happens when I'm not talking to people, so yes.

[NamelessNom4d]

Yeah that shit used to happen to me all the time, then something changed and now I can easily snap back to reality if it happens. I sort of just ground myself when I feel too floaty I guess.

[The Pat-Man]

Originally Posted by Slice_760

Yeah that shit used to happen to me all the time, then something changed and now I can easily snap back to reality if it happens. I sort of just ground myself when I feel too floaty I guess.

yea im getting better at that myself, its all about experience.

[Carbonbased]

All the time bro

[Blunderstar]

Originally Posted by Carbonbased

All the time bro

Imagine experiencing depersonalization in space. You'd fucking die.

[Shrike]

Mine is more of this one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derealization

The feeling of viewing the world behind a pane of glass is just exactly what I feel like when I go out. I've had it for years, like since I was a teenager. I fucking hate it.

[Yurpen]

Originally Posted by Blunderstar

Imagine experiencing depersonalization in space. You'd fucking die.

I think it would be great to experience something like that.

[L33tz]

I get this a lot.

[anoidhead]

I can totally relate to what OP is talking about.

I did Spice once and it was from a bong and what happened, I believe, was I got so much pure JWH or whatever synthetic research chemical was in the blend and I took two hits.

Now mind you I never really did any drug except weed but I barely even buzzed off of it but at that point in time up until I smoked the Spice I never really had the dissociation/derealization. After my trip which was a journey through a hellish nightmare that I couldn't even begin to describe and time dilation that tore the fabric of reality for me it was very difficult for me to come to terms with what I experienced.

Afterwards even when I wasn't high I just often nodded into a state of pure dissociation but without the anxiety-provoking thoughts. The anxiety would only come if I thought too hard about the state of consciousness I was in but even then it was weird. Often times I would question "Am I really here? Is all this real, or is this just someones imagination or even mine?" These strange thoughts used to scare the fuck out of me until I started researching psychology and consciousness. I began to realize that it shouldn't scare me because my perception and state of thought were blending in with my environment. The latter sentence sounds really bad but it's so hard to describe just like how OP is trying to describe it. Anyways, I realized that I shouldn't let these thoughts control me or scare me because I realized that it was me just shifting consciousness and I would return to baseline, another way to think of it is just like what The-Pat Man said "It's being high but for free."

My point being is that what I think OP, everyone relating to OP, and me are experiencing is an altered state of consciousness, and even though it doesn't occur in everyone it still is just another way for us to see things differently. Still, its fucking weird as hell.

[CountBlah]

[Struwwelpeter]

When I was a teenager I used to stare in the mirror and periodically look at my hand (while moving it around) and feeling a sense of PROFOUND sense of amazement and disbelief of what I am. I guess you could call it derealization. It was an unreal feeling!

[Thetakishi]

Originally Posted by reject

Only when I take disassociatives.

Originally Posted by Edge

Only other time I feel detached is in depressive phase of bi-polar.

These

I also get it when a panic attack comes on, though not to the same extent as a dissociative, yet definitely more intense emotionally.

It always feels like my vision is pulled back a bit from my head, yet at the same time I have extreme tunnel vision/I'm focused on just what I'm looking at intensely. Just as bad as a bad trip. A lot more is also happening than just what I said here. It's like a bad trip with a bit of dissociative thrown in. When I first started getting panic attacks, I thought they were flashbacks (which I've also had, and are pretty crazy).

Originally Posted by Junior Jacon Jeese Jurger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization

[Duke Zion]

Sounds like my life

[i poop in your cereal]

Yes. Very, very often. Like basically constantly, atleast when I'm around other people. It ALWAYS happens if I attend a party or some other gathering of people. It's not uncommon for people to talk to me while I just nod my head and smile, and then they ask a question and I have no idea what the fuck they've been talking about...

[Duke Zion]

I'm on the outside, I'm looking in...

[Thetakishi]

Originally Posted by Kipohippo

Does this thread not show how fucked up zoklet is?

That said, I get this all the time. At least 5 times a day. Still, its like nothing compared to what I experienced on drugs, so I kinda just shrug it off.

Hah no joke, if you took this kind of survey on the street it would be like 70% no/29% wtfareyoucrazy?!/1% yes.

[Sir Cornwell]

Only when I leave my basement

Never leave the basement.