What Do Your Eyes Do When You Dissociate?

[zach 97]

Just curious as to what peoples' experiences are. For me sometimes they roll backward...especially if I am sleepy and not feeling all there. Then everything feels all fuzzy, especially my hands. Does this happen to anyone else, or do you stay wide-eyed and alert?

 

[Changing4Best]

I think my eyes unfocus, but I am not sure about much else, my memories are very foggy on this.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Depends how im disocissating as it ranges from daydreaming that we all do to DID.

Id say, most of the time, im off in my other world so im not there, may look like im daydreaming to others but im gone.

I do that near as much as i used to. What i do at work has been renamed by my therapist; the word is escaping me and i cant seem to get it off google but its what you would associate with EMTs, Cops, Vets etc. At work I catigorize my mind into boxes and then numb the bulk of them away.

I think ive been disocissating more lately. Reading but my mind me somewhere else and have no clue what i just read 10 times over.

When ive fully disocissated, i dont know as i have no memory of it and back when i was a kid and fully disocissated, its the same, meory right up to i went away and right after but nothing during.

So who knows what my eyes do? If i asked people maybe but no one has told me that my eyes rolled back. I think its just more of a blank stare, that ive heard a lot.

 

[anonymous]

I don't know. I would like to know how I look. I suspect it's subtle as people usually can't tell. Even therapists at times. I worry that my eyes role back with some types though as I wouldn't want that. I suspect they might. I do a stop-seeing thing a lot. I switch my sight off. I'm not sure what that looks like or how I do it.

Other types I know I probably just look a bit vague or dreamy. And when its deeper I'm unresponsive. I think I then stare ahead in a fixed state. I also get a catoplexy type thing where I suddenly collapse and I appear asleep or unconscious but my mind is actually still awake. There are other types too.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I think I then stare ahead in a fixed state.

Thats what i get from people mostly, including my therapist. I fix my eyes on something and dont move them at all...its how my therapist knows im gone and he pulls me out of it...and its what i hear from him as how he knows im trying to or have disocissated.

But it all depends on which kind, I think, as disocossation ranges.

 

[Sideways]

I'm like @lostforgottensoul - if I've just spaced out, apparently they fix in a stare and glaze over, often blinking stops.

If I go to derealisation, I know that they tend to wander all over the shop, because the whole world becomes fascinating and strange.

But if I switch completely, my eyes behave however my alter is behaving. That can sometimes be a giveaway, since the only time I make eye contact with my doc or my T is if I've done a switch.

Weird. Very weird.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

If I go to derealisation, I know that they tend to wander all over the shop, because the whole world becomes fascinating and strange.

I didnt think about those times. I can identify with that...just the fixed stare is what i hear others saying the most.

the only time I make eye contact with my doc or my T is if I've done a switch.

I dont think its strange as your alter feels more comfortable with eye contact.

I never look at my therapist either.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

What i do at work has been renamed by my therapist; the word is escaping me and i cant seem to get it off google but its what you would associate with EMTs, Cops, Vets etc. At work I catigorize my mind into boxes and then numb the bulk of them away.

Compartmentalizing. It only took me a day to think of the darn term.

 

[Chimera]

Does anyone's vision change afterwards?
I have prolonged double vision, nothing helps.

 

[EveHarrington]

Horrible vision! Can't see anything clearly. Bad distance issues. Shouldn't drive but do anyway. :-/

 

[Sideways]

@Chimera - I get double vision sometimes, or everything goes blurry. Usually I stop blinking at the same time, so my eyes can get quite sore.

 

[Chimera]

@lostforgottensoul
Blurry, and they do get sore...this is a recent symptom...how long does yours last...just wondering

Maybe not so recent, but only a couple times in my life