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onph

What am I experiencing?

Sometimes when doing nothing but thinking it's as if I'm not real and I go into an almost “third person PoV” like in video games and I just don't feel real. I feel as if I maybe died and just came back to life for a second. The earliest I can remember this happening was at age 6 and the latest was just now. It happens through out each year every year.

Is this something that other people have experienced and is there some information on it?

Posted Sep 22, 2017, 2:44 AM UTC

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Anticode•

Derealization or depersonalization perhaps?

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callmelate4supper•

Could this be akin to an out of body experience?

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fernandfauna•

Dissociation is another similar experience. Idk if any of these are "normal" but other people definitely experience them. There are exercises you can do to help. "Grounding" yourself can help you "come back". For example, focus your attention on your feet and how they feel on the ground, focus on your clothing lightly pressing against your body, focus on your hands, what are they feeling.. etc. bring your attention back to yourself in reality. There's lots of other grounding techniques, definitely look into it!

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