You Know You've Been Dissociating/being Absent Minded When...

[desiderata310]

When, after a period of time of staring at the computer screen, you click print to gather together the project you've been working on and turn around to see that you've already printed this very thing twice already.
For the win!
Ugh. At least I finally remembered to SAVE and CLOSE while the paperwork was in my hand.

 

[EmmaOwl]

When you spend all day crying because it's 2018 and you can't remember the year going by... but then someone tells you that it is actually still 2017.

 

[EmmaOwl]

When you are *extremely* grateful that your watch says which day of the week it is.

 

[Forgetful]

When you're having a really bad day so you go lay on your bed in the early afternoon then when you look at your clock and it's 5:15!! Damn now I have to make dinner! After about 1/2 hour of banging around the kitchen you go to make tomorrow's coffee. It's already been made, when did I do that? You look at the clock - it's 5:45 AM!

 

[Forgetful]

Bolted awake after an awful reoccurring nightmare. I'm aware that I'm in my room in my apartment but I can't find the door or light switch. I am lost in my own room! How the hell did this happen?

I tend to wake up a couple times a week completely Disassociating. Pdoc says it's called derealization but I don't understand what that is.

 

[Ronin]

When you decide you don't want to be in the current year at all -

And willing yourself to check out just doesn't work, because too much of your situational awareness is reflexive, even when nobody's home & who's home at the time is clinically insane. Bloody f*cking training f*ck off. I want to drop out & stay dropped out.

 

[Friday]

When you blink to on a bus.

And the scenery outside doesn't immediately make sense. And the bus layout inside doesn't immediately make sense. And the other passengers are all Asian, but the wrong kind of Asian, so that doesn't immediately make sense. And so you have to wait several minutes in traffic you can't see for the bus to move, to find more contextual clues about where you are, so you can figure out when you are. Which also includes running a complete "flex everything and make sure it's all there and nothing hurts" inventory.

Ah so. Okay. It's 15 minutes later than it was, and we're in Korea town, headed towards Little Ethiopia. In the same city you were in before, on the same day. And breathe. And close your eyes again and listen to the wrong language on the bus. It wasn't a dream. And you didn't lose -a lot- of time. And you don't have a sudden kaleidoscope of memories between where you thought you were and where you are now, or worse, nothing but a wall of blankness. It's just like waking up in yet another hotel room, and not immediately placing where you are and how you got there. It's nothing to be concerned about. Just a misplaced moment. Just a normal day. Just a bus. Just a city.

 

[Anrish]

When you don't remember the drive home - about 115 km....

 

[Ronin]

When...

The wrong flicker of sunlight. Again. I'm two continents away. Both in the same moment. And so bloody slow -
Right. I don't have to be fast. I don't have to anything at all. Different time. No stress. Facedesk.

 

[ladee]

When you log on here and have NO IDEA how to navigate the site, like you've Never been here, ever!

 

[EmmaOwl]

When you log on here and have NO IDEA how to navigate the site, like you've Never been here, ever![/QUOTE...

I think this one might just be normal.... :)

 

[ladee]

@Allie D. , oh noooo. Now I'm scared!:laugh::laugh::laugh: