does anyone ever experience this?

i do not think that language is a bad thing.. it is a tool for communication with others and ourselves... it helps us form our vague feelings into thoughts that can bring about results maybe... or does it hinder us? i dont know but as a species who relies so much on the community of others... language plays probably the most important role in our intellectual development. does intellectual development hinder spiritual development? i dont know... anyway these are pretty random thoughts so sorry if im not coming to a good solid point. maybe its better that way anyway.

 

omg yeah i do that alot. and stare into the mirror until i dont recognize myself..

 

Yes, all the time. Thought that I was the only one. I think it first happened when I was about 7 or 8. Thought I was going nuts, but sure is cool to know that I'm not alone

 

Hmmm, interesting. Im not sure if i've experianced this although, sometimes, i get all these thoughts at the same time and sometimes memories get mixed up in them and ... yer , hard to really explain, it can last awhile but i usually snap myself out of it pretty quickly.

it feels like my brain is trying to bring my body up to speed with whats going on around me.
come to think of it, my body does that to my brain sometimes too. hasnt happend for awhile though. none the less, very strange.

 

This ia a little different but I think it's the same sort of thing happening. You know how when you walk into someone elses house fo rthe first time you see everything, I mean you really see everything, the structures, the colors, designs, ideas, everything. But when your'e in your own house you don't really this, you see everything but it's become so common that you never take it in anymore. Well one day I had just woken up, and walked into my bathroom, and I saw my bathroom again. I noticed the towel rack, and the lights. As if I was in someone else's bathroom. I know that sounds stupid, but it felt so clear, like for a split second things were in focus. Is that sort of what you mean.

 

I feel this all the time. In fact I've never really felt like me and my body were the same. I never really looked in the mirror all my life, I mean obviously I looked, but never really looked. I was never the type of person to be preoccupied with the way I looked, I just didn't care. Now I find myself looking in the mirror saying, "Is that what I look like?" And I'm never really aware of my body that often. I'm not sure if this is exactly the same as what you described. It really feels to me like this body is just a vehicle for me to get around while I'm here. And don't start thinking I'm a big drug user because I'm not. I've never really had an intense experience or done many drugs.
As for the name thing somebody mentioned, there's this band up here in Canada called "The Gay" and they have a song called "Robert Smith" and in the middle they just sing "Robert" over and over again in crazy layered harmonies. Well, Robert is my name and everytime I hear that song it freaks me out. It's so familiar but at the same time it doesn't even seem like it's really my name.

 

Wow. Thank you for this site. I'm convinced I have chronic depersonalization. Have you ever experienced the noise thing? That's what convinced me. Cause when I was a kid, probably until I was 12 or 13, I'd have these things where I'd have this noise in my head, it sounded like whispering, but i couldn't make anything out cause there were so many voices at once, it was like my thoughts whispering and they'd get louder and louder to the point where I couldn't handle it anymore, and I remember all I could do was try to drown it out by humming or singing to myself, but sometimes it would be so bad I'd be crying or yelling. The anxiety would build until i thought i'd burst, then it would all just stop suddenly. I recently experienced this again (briefly last summer, first time since i was a kid) and haven't experienced it since.
Has anyone ever had anything like this?

 

That happens to me alot, I start thinking that I'm alive and often imagine how it must be in another person's body when they walk around, and see me, and that they're alive to. And what it's like to be one person in another place right now.
No clue why. And when I walk around I start being amazed about how detailed and high quality everything I see is. It's all so....strange!

Hey thanks! I bet that's gonna be a very interesting read!

 

yeah. i get what you say. I remember this particular time, i must have been like 7 or 8 years old and i was looking at a picture on the wall, and i sat on my bed and started thinking...why am i who i am? why do i have this body, why am i here? i'm me and i can't explain why, these are my hands, my legs, my arms, etc. and i remember that sort of sensation, like an awakening, it's almost unexplicable. i guess it means you're in tune with yourself and looking things from a hidden point of view of the self, makes you more aware of what you are and appreciate what you get from life.

If we had the answers to all the questions we have, we wouldnt be able to contemplate things the way we're supposed to.

 

What you're saying here is actually very interesting to me. I've always felt "me" when i refer to my "self" as someone completely different to what i see in front of the mirror. the "I" what pothers perceive of me, it's completely different to what the "me" actually is. even when i look at photos of me i get the same feeling.
i've just started to realise that this is my aging body, i've noticed how it has changed in the past year, due to my drinking problem and my increased appetite. in a way it makes me sad, knowing that i'm actually aging...but not sad in a bad way, just more conscious, probably that's a better word to describe it, conscious about me being a human being, cos i've always look at myself as "me" and now it's more like yeah i'm part of this too, and it does affect me, cos i'm human...i guess you get this kind of feeling when every year you blow more candles on your cake. I know i'm young, but i'm more aware of the fact that i won't be this young forever...anyway i'm starting to ramble now.

 

calling it depersonalization is bullshit. It just takes a smart person to be able to see things the way they are meant to be seen. dont listen to that scientific crap, it happens to everybody that has an open mind. it happens to me all the time, and i dont think its a fucking disorder, its fucking cool!

 

Yep It happens to me all the time I don't like that site either..I don't need treatment.GAh

 

I get that too when looking at pictures. Something really strange is to watch a video of yourself at your present age, then you see the way people perceive how you act, which I often find to be very different from the way I think I'm acting, moving, etc...
It's wierd to think that no matter how good your intentions are maybe people think they're something else. I don't know if that makes sense. Like someone who sees your facial expression might think you're annoyed by something when really your real feeling is much different, all because of one little physical movement.

 

this happens to me all the time. its like, seeing something for the first time, only it could be the millionth time you've seen it. like with your example of your bathroom, only i've done this with my parents and my dog and practically everything else. it amazes me everytime. i bet that is what the poster is talking about, only it himself that he is seeing again for the first time. it such an odd feeling though. maybe there is some scientific explanation?

 

Right On~!

 

hum interesting it appears to be mostly females that have this phenomenom, or at least mostly females who admit to it

dunno

anyways, ive had a few experiences in the past like this, and thoughts about it too, its crazy yeah, its up there right along with where does the universe stop and do we go anywhere when we are gone and how did we really get here and those kind of wonders in life

will never know the real answers reall,y or at all, or at least not in this life,
if this isnt the only one

the unknown has a tendency to scare or freak us out, thats to be expected, in most cases, when i look at others i sometimes wondr if they ever think about wonders of life, sometimes i bring it up, and every time i have found that they admit that they sometimes wonder too,
so am 99% confident in saying that everyone does this,

is hard not to think and wonder about stuff however,

human nature,

we are smarter than other species as far as consciousness is concerned, we are able to do this thinkign and wondering and so forth

is it a curse ?

or what ?

hmmm...


peace

 

If you think about like i do the body is just a vessel transporting "you" through this world. As you can see this world does a number on our minds and thats just the same for our body. Its hear to protect us from the world.

 

That websites crap, okay I can't really say that, I didn't look through the whole thing, honestly not very much of it, but I don't think of it a disorder, maybe if you take with the wrong mindset, but. . I don't know nevermind, you all know what I mean, sorry waste of a post

 

YES I get that feeling. It makes me so grateful that I have a way for my mind to get around! Then I feel guilty because, as Phish says, "I never knew what my body was for/ I'd always leave it laying out on the floor" and I don't take care of it as well as I should. I'm so negligent of my physical self... so when I realize it's there, its like holy crap, I'm lucky.