There is a whole classification of drugs that do this, called dissociatives, such as Ketamine. I've never personally had it but I have given it to several people in my line of work. People act pretty strange when they are given it.
Right. Swim tried a little bit and had a very nice time listening to music and getting lost in a visualizer. Another swim did a much larger dose and thought he was someone else watching himself watch tv. When he came to he was staring into a cup of water and there was no tv
I highly doubt I have the disorder but I have felt isolated from myself at times. Everything about me will seem foreign, strange. Usually this is when i stop feeling emotions for a few seconds.
I've some people like it and it can be relaxing, other times it can freak people out. I think it depends on if hallucinations are involved and what kinds..
I feel it quite often. It happens when I remember that I'm alive and start paying attention to all my senses. I get distant from my sense of being and it's lovely. Nobody remembers to notice that they are alive.
Everybody is so busy trying to live their lives that they forget that they ARE alive. So busy trying to get to the next spot that they forget to enjoy where they are. Stop what you're doing. Now, close your eyes and feel the air on your arms, the tastes in your mouth, and the way the fabric of your clothes feels on your skin. Now open your eyes. Do you see the colors?! You are alive yet you never really notice it, do you?
For me, this is the stage of sleep deprivation right before "if you don't slap yourself in the face REALLY HARD every ten seconds or so, your eyes won't focus."
Whenever I do something that I've practiced a lot, like a speech or something, it's like my body is in autopilot and I'm just watching some weird POV YouTube video
Do you ever get really sleep deprived and your mind produces wild images, randomly combining thing’s you’ve seen and things you’ve never seen? They’re really colourful and they kinda slap your mind.
When you get extremely tired you are susceptible to falling to sleep faster. This means that a few seconds lapse in attention can induce a state known as hypnagogia. You will get auditory and visual hallucinations in this state and if you stay in it for too long then you will fall asleep. You will not be dreaming as you do not dream until you've been asleep for several hours after going to sleep. Lucid dreamers manipulate this hypnagogia to gain control of their dreams without ever actually going to sleep.
Sleep paralysis isn't scary. It is actually pretty neat. It's only disturbing if it happens when you don't know what it is such as your first time or if you have superstitious beliefs about it. It's happened plenty of times to me.
I have a panic disorder that often causes surreal spells of dissociation and uncontrollable spasms. It’s an interesting sensation in hindsight, but in the moment it occurs it is frankly quite terrifying. People tend to experience a spectrum of symptoms with a panic disorder, so if anyone else has one, I’m here to discuss.
I was on weed and I felt like I was in a sit com watching my own life for a few hours. I told my gf about while she was with me during this "episode" lol and she thought I was completely bonkers:
Interesting.
It started with Hypnotism, but then I found that I like all of Psychology too.
i have about a million psych facts