does this happen to anyone else?

Sometimes I'll just be reading..or just sitting there when all of the sudden everything feels all awkward and it feels like I'm not here..like it's a dream. Does this happen to anyone else?

 

uhm, not really. try explaining further what you mean, what does it feel like?

 

i kinda know what you mean, i was on shrooms 4 the first time last night, and after awhile on that couch and listening to bob marley it didnt even feel like i was there anymore, like it was all just one big dream....And if i try to read a book more than like 30 minutes i just feel so out of it, very odd feeling

 

yes its weird like I can se the world, and I dont seem to understand what the world has made itself almost. like im seeing from behind me but only for like 1 split second. weird

 

i get 'em. except for me they last AT LEAST a few minutes; though it feels like hours at the time. i've been getting them ever since i was a little kid. my therapist called them "moments of de-realization" or something like that.

i used to freak out when i'd get em, but now they're not that big a deal. i've found that with my meditation it's easier to keep track of and accept what's going on around me. in fact, my father taught me how to meditate when i was a kid for just that reason. they're easier to deal with when i can remind myself that when everything is "real" again, it'll all go back to normal.

but i hate it when it happens when i'm out with people. it bothers me that i have to ask someone to hold my hand, and walk me to someplace quiet and safe cuz i can't do it myself cuz i can't even tell what i'm looking at. and when people think i'm making it up, i feel like shit, cuz i know there's no way i'm going to get them to believe me if they've never experienced something like it; especially when i'm in the moment.

they're not really a problem for me, but for some people they can be a serious problem. if anything, i have deeper roots in reality because i'm forced to face the differences between reality and perception. but at the time i feel like i'm insane. =P

 

Yeah. It's kind of like de ja vu and kinda not. I was at work last week and I got that feeling--like everything stopped for a few seconds--accompanied by a real strong "memory" except that when I thought about it later the "memory" was of something I don't remember ever happening. Seemed important though.

 

Sometimes Ill be sittin somewhere and Ill look down at my legs and it totally feels like there not mine. Its weird

 

see the thread called "does this happen to anyone else?"

same thing, but really indepth responses. helped me out.

 

haha sorry that's this thread, i meant the thread called "does anyone else ever experience this?"

 

happens to me too. Its like im looking at a picture or watching a movie...

 

I like it when that happens. Seems like there are no consequences, so I have complete freedom... of course, I never do anything harmful.

 

me too !

i have what i call time skips, surroundings changes, i lose track of where i am for a few seconds, its wierd, i have to look around and figure out where i am, sometimes im somwhere where i swear i was not chilling out at a few seconds before, sometimes its pretty intense and i have to get up and walk it off and such



thought i was the only one

 

happened to me

 

I suppose you could call it a moment of derealization...I get to where sometimes I stop what I'm doing and realize that I'm a human...the bodies you read about in text books for class...and I'm one of them. That everyone else is too, and that you could easily throw it all away...

 

Yeah I know exactly what you mean, one time I was tripping real bad and I kept on thinking that I didnt exist, well its not that I didnt exist, I refused to admit that I was real... Like I didnt want to believe that I was real. idk its weird

 

depersonalization? it's something 70% of people experience, but some people have a "chronic depersonalization disorder". i'll try to find the website someone gave me in another post and put it on here.

 

I know entirely and exactly what you mean dood. This happens to me allll the time. This happened to me even before I started smoking pot. Its so weird I love it though.

 

happens all the time. sometimes i feel like im not a part of this world, like im on the outside looking in.

 

maybe its my ego

but ive never felt detatched from myself or reality

even on drugs

it may happen someday

though i have experienced that aweful feeling of being just "a monkey on a rock hurtling through space" as someone put it once, but i dont think that has anythign to do with derealisation or depersonalisation. if anything, its realisation.

a friend of mine was having problems like this, he went and saw a psychiatrist or psychologist or whatever and they diagnosed him with depersonalisation and derealisation, and now he doesnt take any psychedelic drugs. sad, caus now we cant smoke the cheeb together

 

all the time, for as long as i can remeber.