i just tripped (sort of)

OK, this is going to sound like a bunch of attention begging bullshit, but it isn't.

about an hour ago my dad went to bed. my mom is out of town so i'm left alone in the house. i go downstairs and sit by the kitched counter and start trimmin' my fingernails, watchin' the tube, and snackin' some grub. everything seemed perfectly normal. i get full and tired of tv so i'm going to go upstairs and start up the PS3. right about when i get to the stairs, everything changes.
i don't exactly recognize a difference at first, it just seems strange. all my senses are working, but i'm just not getting the big picture. i'm staring past what i'm looking at almost. everything seems very unimportant, the physical appearance and presence almost ceased to exist in my mind. it got harder and harder to keep myself on ground level and then i just thought past everything. i would describe it as another dimension i was thinking into, but that seems a little strong. no visuals, i just kind of left all of my senses behind. from reading this it seems like it was a stronger effect than it was, but it was definate.

i have no idea waht happened. i didn't get anything from the experience as i am still a little spooked. the only drug i have ever done is weed, so i can't really compare it too anything. it's like the descriptions of DMT but only ever so slightly more powerful than weed.

i don't even know why i am posting this... i'm just feelin' a little off... :-/
somone please try for an explanation to this madness?

jesus i sound like a dipshit in this, uhg. no one's going to think i'm telling the truth.

 

Is this continueing or did it cease?

Were you aware of the changes as they were occuring or only after it had happened?

To me, as you wrote it, I'd say mild depersonalization/ derealization.

Nothing to be spooked about, just perceptional shifts. You're ok.

 

happens to me all the time.....im actually able to do it at will

 

I can depersonalize at will too, if that's what you're referring to. I can't un-depersonalize at will though, so yeah, that's the problem haha

 

did everything become sort of 2d?

 

its quite interesting....i do it when i have to wait long periods of time

 

This sounds interesting, Eskimo101. How exactly does it work?

 

Stella I love your sig a lot. The picture and the words.

OP: The mind is amazing If you can't figure out exactly what happened or why, just leave it at that. If it happens again, reassess it.

 

I do it in class quite a bit.. It makes everything go faster even if you have no idea what is being said lol

 

not to put down your experience, but you may have just gotten up and moved too quickly, and just zoned out a bit at the spontaneous exertion.

 

im sure it was nothing at all like DMT... but dont let people tell you that you cant have a 'trip' by smokin weed

 

I am quite interested as well. I only recently learned what depersonalization / derealization was while I was researching HPPD, and it seems like a very interesting state of consciousness. Although I can easily see how it would be quite anxiety inducing. Do you have a procedure that leads to depersonalization or does it just sort of...happen?

 

Don't get depersonalization and derealization confused. I've had to deal with depersonalization for along time, outside of my control, it becomes straining.

On the other hand, as a few have said before, I can muster up derealization at will, also. Which I had never called it that.. It's just a mind set I bring myself to alot, when I contemplate things, especially when stoned, it seems to come naturally.


Heh its funny becuase I was watching an anime called Bleach, and theres a scene where this influence makes the screen appear more black and white with blurry focus and things tend to rip and tear.. thats the closest I can explain the visual effects, but thats not even the most striking part, its the weird mind set and feelings that go along with it.

 

The reason I grouped them together was because that's how the disorder was presented to me when I stumbled across it. I have a few questions for all of you:

1) "Because depersonalization cannot exist without anxiety" is that true?


If derealization is just "where the world around him/her feels unreal and unfamiliar." then yea, I've had that happened to me. Never at will though, and only once or twice. And only in a very mild way (feeling like I'm in a movie).

For anyone interested, I took those quotes from http://www.panic-anxiety.com/depersonalization-derealization/

 

I don't belive thats true at all. I'd say it stems more from apathy than anxiety in my case.

 

The site did go on to say that depersonalization stems from the amygdala, which is also the brain's "fear center," so it's not difficult to see how the two would often accompany each other. It is also not difficult to see how it could be an anxiety-free experience under the right circumstances and mindset.

 

No, it only lasted for like 10 minutes. It wasn't like 2d as someone else asked, I really couldn't pay attention to any of my senses. Doing this at will seems a little far off, maybe were not on the same page, I was unable to do anything, barely found a place to sit and observe my thoughts. Everything had a unique place in the world, although physical matter did not matter. It was almost euphoric and scary/shocking at the same time if that's even possible...

 

I get perceptional shifts alot...I can envoke them sometimes.....

 

Old Buddhist Chen/Zen belief is that Enlightenment can come as a flash, at any moment.....Im not saying you had a flash of Enlightenment, but maybe your brain was comprehending something grand in quick-time....

 

nmh I want to refine the experience. It was as strong for me as getting partially stoned. I really hope I can prevoke this again.

When I hit the mindset it felt like I could keep my head level, if I tryed,
Or
I could have just let the feeling wash over me, which is what I did.

Mmhmmm I am going to start researching all this stuffs.