Anyone Experienced Depersonalization?

Anyone ever get this? i do ALL the time.

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Depersonalization : A frightening and/or disturbing experience of not being within one's own body or of being in immediate danger of vanishing/separating from reality – often described as the sensation of living inside a dream. Although cognitive functioning remains intact, the sufferers feel disconnected from their sense of self and often interpret it “as if I am losing my mind.”
“ My hands feel like they're made of paper, or like they belong to someone else.” “My own face in a mirror seems foreign, like I have never really seen it before this moment…” “I cannot feel my body, not truly numb, but it is as if I have disappeared into myself, beyond my own flesh and blood…”
“Sometimes I literally wonder if I am already dead and existing as a ghost…it feels like my soul is trying to leave its shell and I am fighting with all my strength to hold it inside this body. I don't know if I'm dreaming or awake; I must be going insane…to feel my self wafting away…I know it is only a matter of time…”
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i thought of something else when i read depersonalization, like not valuing fellow humans for what they are, only looking at them like they're machine opperaters and nothing more...

But yeh I've experienced the depersonalization u mentioned... but only while tripping, mostly on dxm. The feeling of gravity gets a lot more significant and there was a time where i thought if i closed my eyes gravity would suck my soul out of my body.

And plenty of times i looked at my arms and legs and ask who's they are.

 

yep. i get that a lot.

also, i think of myself in the third person a lot.

 

i have once; it was frightening and fascinating at the same time.
i was on drugs.

 

oh i don't have to be on drugs. in fact, i am experiencing it right now...

 

... yes. but mostly derealization.

 

if you were experiencing depersonalization right now, would you be using the term "I", let alone want to try to communicate?

i dunno, but when i felt it, it was huge, and nothing, at the same time. there was no "I". depersonalization means that the normal sense of personal identity and reality vanishes. perhaps you meant derealization, which is the feeling of an altered reality.


peace,
sophia

 

i could have written she, of course. but i am used to translating 'she' into 'i' from internal dialogue. but perhaps you are right. it's bigger when taking acid.

 

druggies

 

All the time. Ever since childhood.

 

hmmmm. sounds like drugs to me or a form of schitzo.


THat's how i felt on shrooms.

 

yes I have had the same feeling but only like when im really smoked up..or tripping or what not. Lol sometimes it feels like my bodys gone and i only have a head or something or like my head aint on right or like my hands arent really there ya thats messed up.

 

im having this right now ,, has lasted a week now after a really bad few days of anxiety attacks...ill post more later as im in a rush>>

 

yep. mostly in cars at night. it's like i sink into myself and am trapped in a big fleshy alien thing.

 

heh, I go there all the time. It's where the true me resides. A really freaky, relaxing place, well for "me" anyway.

 

Wow... yes... I feel the paper type thing the most with my neck... I dont feel it exists within "me" so when I actually touch it it's very bizarre. Not really paper like but I think it's a similar feeling.

I would blame it on too many drugs back in the day except I've been like this from time to time since I was a small child.

And the weirdest part is, I've wondered about the ghost thing as well.

 

After taking too much k 1 night, i was compleatly gone, It took me about 5 seconds to understand what my name ment when someone said it.

 

Actually, yes I have. It's kind of like a trippy state of mind, induced only by the mind - yet I've harnessed this state of being. I used to get dark, dreadful feelings of being lost within my own head (I guess you could say similar to depression) with only a half-sense of reality, but I've learned how to get a more positive effect from this natural phenomenon. Now whenever I feel this way, it's like being high without substances of any kind.

 

i never knew there was termonology for the way I felt, nor did I know that there where actually more people that go thru this on a daily basis. sometimes it really scares me cause its so mysterious and confusing but I have to say that it has helped me out a lot for it enables me a perception on reality that few are able to see

 

I have had this for years....

I thought it was something to do with the strong neptune stuff in my chart.....

Only lasts for a few seconds, but i feel like i am not here....nothing is real...

thanks for posting this...interesting...

just thought I was a space cadet all me life....lol...