"super powers" by dissociation

[bellbird]

Just wondering if anyone else gets this.

I'll think about doing an action, then dissociate, do the action whilst dissociated, then become present again only to find the action I was just thinking about doing has been done like f*cking magic.

Such as:

Sitting in my bedroom, thinking to myself: I need to go to the kitchen.
...next thing I know... I'm in the kitchen!!!
Teleportation whaddup.

Or:

Thinking about getting changed from my pyjamas into clothes.
...then suddenly... I'm already changed!!!
<hello, shapeshifterr>

Of course, the magic doesn't always work, and sometimes we end up somewhere that was Definitely Not where we had intended to go :rolleyes:
But hey, it's fun when it does.

 

[Freida]

nope -- so teach me how!!! :laugh:

 

[Gs172003]

Does this work for chores? I might actually do them then haha

 

[Jade-]

Before I was diagnosed with a dissociative disorder I found it confusing.I thought maybe I was being abducted by aliens or something. I would sit down to smoke a cig and poof,it would be down to the filter suddenly. I would look at the clothes I had on and think wtf,when did I put this on.I would realize the date and wonder where the months went.I would go to social gatherings and people would tell me things I said and did and I would wonder why they were lying about me.And SO many more things.

I didn't think of it as super powers,I thought of it as super confusing and scary at times.Im grateful it's no longer like that.

 

[theshadowoftheliving]

I pay bills when dissociated. And then forget and then panic, then check and realize oh, already done.

In a way, superpower. Mostly, panic-time. I'd rather, any day, just know what I have done.

 

[Nessa7]

For me, it is my pain tolerance. If I twist my ankle, my brain just decides that anything below my knees doesn't exist. It has downsides and advantages.

 

[recoveringfromptsd]

Just wondering if anyone else gets this.

I'll think about doing an action, then dissociate, do the action whilst dissociated, then become present again only to find the action I was just thinking about doing has been done like f*cking magic.

Such as:

Sitting in my bedroom, thinking to myself: I need to go to the kitchen.
...next thing I know... I'm in the kitchen!!!
Teleportation whaddup.

Or:

Thinking about getting changed from my pyjamas into clothes.
...then suddenly... I'm already changed!!!
<hello, shapeshifterr>

Of course, the magic doesn't always work, and sometimes we end up somewhere that was Definitely Not where we had intended to go :rolleyes:
But hey, it's fun when it does.

This post really caught my attention, when I was at that place where I was abused a lot, at some point I started going into a dis-associative world, where my mind would do what I could not, escape the abuse, the theme being I had the power to just jump long distances, over houses and neighborhoods. Always the same, I escape with a jump.

Now my superpower is just surviving

 

[Ronin]

I pay bills when dissociated.

:roflmao: My people.

I need specific types of dissociation to handle bills. Or anything money administrative that isnt cash.

 

[Amandaouellet]

Just wondering if anyone else gets this.

I'll think about doing an action, then dissociate, do the action whilst dissociated, then become present again only to find the action I was just thinking about doing has been done like f*cking magic.

Such as:

Sitting in my bedroom, thinking to myself: I need to go to the kitchen.
...next thing I know... I'm in the kitchen!!!
Teleportation whaddup.

Or:

Thinking about getting changed from my pyjamas into clothes.
...then suddenly... I'm already changed!!!
<hello, shapeshifterr>

Of course, the magic doesn't always work, and sometimes we end up somewhere that was Definitely Not where we had intended to go :rolleyes:
But hey, it's fun when it does.

No, but I always Dissociate while typing and when I come too I have typed pages of the same letter or had my finger on the delete button. So frustrating when my whole document is gone.

 

[bellbird]

So frustrating when my whole document is gone.

Can you Ctrl Z/equivalent to get it back? If your finger has been pressing on it continually, the computer should just recognise it as a single action.

 

[HealingInProcess]

I don't know that that's a superpower as it's blacking out and yes,I've suffered through that.

 

[bellbird]

I don't know that that's a superpower as it's blacking out

Hence the quotation marks.
Too many aspects of this disorder darken my world; I try to find, or make, a little light where I can.