What is disassociating like?

[Deanna]

Dissociation is psychologically, stepping back in to your spiritual body for protection. I think it is triggered by deep depression and designed to protect your psyche.

Physically, It's the same thing- as a doctor, putting someone into an induced coma to protect their life.

 

[Groo]

The proportions of things look off to me sometimes. Occasionally I will feel giant and everything else tiny when I am standing, but when I sit down I feel tiny and everything else looks ginormous

I feel like I'm looking through the world through a really powerful wide-angle lens. Sometimes I can even see my vision distort as I fall into disassociation. Everything looks really far away, and I'd reach out my hand to touch something and wonder how I was able to touch something that far away. Voices would be slightly muffled.

One time my T was explaining something to me and I could feel myself pulling away. I was struggling to try to understand what she was saying and all I could hear was blah blah blah blah...

 

[Marisea]

It's different for me. Sometimes it pleasant almost restful but usually it's horrible like I have to keep operating my body even though I'm not in it. It's terrifies me that someone will notice. I know why Sylvia Plath called her book The Bell Jar or I think I do. It's like I'm operating behind glass. I can feel anything. It's a horror. Also I had times when I couldn't move. Times when I could see myself as I looked down from above at my body. Other times it's like I whose out into the trees. I can't make it happen and it doesn't happen often now as I am quite old. I also keep myself very safe these days.

Sorry predictive text in above post. It should read .
I can't feel anything
Whoosh out into the trees