PJS

Thanks for pointing this term out. I'd heard the term before but never knew what it was. I was looking it up and it seems to be exactly what I've experienced in the past, and probably will again in the future. I suppose it is more common than I thought.

I agree that weird things happen to people in their heads that stay there, in the back of their minds. Only because words truly don't posses the capabilities of describing those most abstract, inner feelings we experience. I believe for that reason people keep it to themselves. Perhaps some believe that everyone else experiences it and that it is a natural thing.

That is quite odd. I experience the disconnection feeling, but the change in your perception of time is very strange indeed. I imagine this is something one has to experience for themselves to fully comprehend. I wonder how others, if any, saw you relative to their time perception. I wouldn't mind experiencing this for myself.

I kind of like when these disconnections happen to me. They are very rare, but when they do happen, something deep inside me hopes my life really isn't real, that what I'm experiencing has been fake all along, that maybe I will wake up in a different mind. Sometimes I wonder if we live in a world like the Matrix. Sometimes, when my mind really starts to wonder, I think things like that those behind the scenes of the real world programmed the movie, "The Matrix," into our world just to mock us; to put it right under our faces knowing we can't do anything about it. Sorry if that sounds crazy (I don't get out much, I mean, at all, really).

What really keeps our conscious inside one particular head anyway? Why does my conscious take the role of this body? I know it all comes down to the cells that make us up, that all the thought-processes are just cells moving in our brains, but sometimes I wonder if there's more to it than that. I mean, at the sub-atomic level the world is a very weird place where things can disappear or pop into existence out of nothing. I know there are experts in this field of quantum mechanics, but there are many mysteries yet to be solved in that realm. Who's to say our conscious can't transfer to another brain. We'd wake up with all the memories of the new brain so we'd have no idea, but perhaps this "disconnection" is but a mere side-effect. You never know... after all, everything in the universe is connected in one way or another. Then again, I am just rambling on...

My apologies if at any time this post strayed off topic.

Dec 1987 - Jan 2010

Nack

That's one of the perks of having social anxiety, you stay inside your head to much and reality gets twisted. But to be honest, that "experience" allows you to become a more open minded character. It also allows you to see things in different perspective, and finds multiple ways to approach them.

Then again, you have to question "it" itself too. Because nothing is true, and everything is permitted. Really, this whole thing falls to a whole 'nother level of philosophy.

chandragupta

psychologically speaking, the general term for this is dissociation. or depersonalisation or derealisation. the mind enters a state of detachment, probably triggered by anxiety and/or thoughts of being different.

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solitarymonkey

i notice the "reality shift" type thing most when i'm at work. i'm not sure what sets it off (if it ever is triggered by anything?!), but i sometimes feel like Neo in the matrix when he finally begins to accept the "reality" and how it can be manipulated. easiest scene to describe it is when he fights Agent Smith. just that whole scene fits with how i kinda feel when the "shift" happens. things move around me and look weird, and like they aren't really there, but still have some importance in their existence. it's almost a nausiating feeling, without the sick feeling in the stomach (a sort of dizziness, unable to stand on feet steadily, trying to work out whats going on and keep a grip, if that makes sense)
such a hard thing to explain

bony666

yes, I experienced that a few years ago: I think that is your Sp makes you very Spiritual, like sort of detachment from realy, this is our ususal daily 'mental state'
and then in certain situations (I don't know whichj) you just go back on your feet and see the world as it is. The experience can be described like falling from 'sky' to earth , that's why you got scared : does that make sense ? anyway, that's the experience I had a few years ago, and I have to say that it was quite stimulating and lead to me starting new activities and discovering the world