Confusion.. I feel like reality is slipping away from me. H

Hey, I'm suffering from the same problem for about 4 years, and I haven't found out a solution but I'm almost sure it's about the eye. You can examine yourself whether you are focusing on your eyes too much when you are unable to feel reality. Hope this can help.

Guest wrote:

Its called Depersonalization disorder.
Thats what your feeling.

Hey, thanks a lot for this. It helps a lot:)

i feel the exact same thing.
I am 18 years old, fresh out of highschool and everybody thinks I'm giddy and happy
but more and more I've been getting this weird feeling of disconnection
I've described it as though I'm reading a book about my life, I'm just a character telling a story in first person
but its just a character, its not me.
like everyone here was descibing it, its like watching a movie about your life.
I'm not depressed. I'm actually a really happy person.
but in these states, its almost like life is a dream and doesnt matter like it should

The first time I felt this was earlier in the year, I was at a family dinner and couldnt figure it out cus i felt absolutely high without smoking anything.
Then I had vertigo for the next 2 weeks (where you feel like the world is spinning around you) I got vertigo once more at christmas time, and since then started getting it about once a month.
it got more frequent and i have it for about an hour everyday now.
The spinning stopped, so i suppose its no longer vertigo. but that weird disconnected feeling stayed

You might be right about it having to do with the eyes, the eye doctor believes I got my vertigo because my pupils are slightly different sizes and let different amounts of light in, which sets my balance off.
this doesnt explain these weird feelings like my mind is something more then my body and is simply watching a show though

been feeling something similar, I always have every now and then, but I always discarded it as some kind of mental disorder.

Ive begun to think different latley. Consider that maybe, there isnt anything wrong with you. Maybe this depersonilization is instinctive realization that the world around you isnt what youve been told

k im a tell you a secrethow to live with this fealing and every thing will come back just go with it if you see something thats not there ignore it you hear some thing thats not real dont talk to it u feel out of touch with reality dont like it but dont hate it leav it alone it will eventaly go away might come back might be gone forever just dont crack when that happens your gone for good just when you say something know that you said it be there go with it it helped me alot y not let it help u

hello to everyone, i'm a filipino and i also felt the same way, it all started when i go out with my friends. that night while we are drinking some beers, i don't have cigar on my pocket and one of our friends are smoking marijuana, because i don't have cigar i ask him if i could try some, and a few minutes later a felt like i am dreaming and i'm out of my mind, i kept on thinking and thinking, i'm fighting it, then all of a sudden i feel like i'm going insane, i rushed into our house and i took a bath, i thought if i take a bath all of it will be gone but it doesn't. after a few minutes more my friends take drugs called shabu in the philippines, i take some too, because they said that it's opposite of marijuana which is an ( Uppers ) but it doesn't help me too, i went back home and i feel like i'm hallucinating or something, because of that, i called my mother and explain what has happen to me, and what's happening to my brain, they rushed me to the nearest hospital and get a checked up with a psychiatris, the doctor said that the drugs i take is still on my body, and what i feel is because of deppresion, i'm taking some medication now, it's been a months since i started taking medication, but i'm wondering why i still feel like reality is just a dream....

sorry for my bad english, hoping someone can understand my situation....

Hey there, a few thoughts from my experience: 1. how's your thyroid? I had hyperthyroidism for more than a year and it caused me to be in and out of reality. A couple of times I could see people were uncomfortable because of how I was acting but I could not change what I waas doing. It was so weird. My aunt's sister said the same thing about when she had hyperthyroidism also.
2. You may be remembering past lives or getting messages from Spirit. Past life memories can come up when you need to know about them, ie. if that issue is affecting you now - you know about Post traumatic stress disorder, right? Like when soldiers come home after being in horrible circumstances, and have such a hard time staying in reality? It's the same thing for some people who have experienced intense previous lives. The emotional baggage can come through and affect your life. The trick is to figure out the parallels with your life, and realise that you are not then, and your reactions don't have to be the same. But maybe this is not your issue.

Anyway, 3. Your mind might be just coming up with metaphors to teach you. What meaning could there be in it if you take it as symbolic and not literal?

4. the body can create depression and nightmares etc when something is wrong in the body. Make sure you are eating fresh foods, drinking enough water, sleeping, exercising and laughing enough! Get some funny videos and laugh even though you feel depressed! Get those endorphins going!

5. if you are not really anchored into your physical body, but kind of floating through life, you can have this sensation. Meditation often helps this. Note that I said not medication but mediTAtion, as in, sitting quietly, eyes closed, become aware of everything around you, the ground touching your legs, the wind on your arms, the smells, the sounds. And your breathing. Pay attention to each part of your body in turn, send roots down into the earth, ask for guidance from God. That will help you.

Good luck!

Oooh. Sounds like it was not marijuana. I've never heard of weed doing that. Must have been mixed with something else. Well medication can cause that feeling too, I hear. Did you feel depressed before you went out with your friends that night? It sounds like you were fine. Do you think you are really depressed? I'm no doctor but, just wondering. Many doctors like to prescribe anti depressants, but those can make you so flat, emotionally and so not like yourself - that is what I have observed in friends and students on anti depressants. Good luck! Peace, Ingat, Rachel.

a guest wrote: " this doesnt explain these weird feelings like my mind is something more then my body and is simply watching a show though "

Your mind IS something more than your body! I mean, your spirit and your mind are one with your body, but beyond them too: you know lots of you might be having spiritual experiences. Why don't you look up spiritual emergence, or kundalini awakening? You'll find a lot of those experiences or symptoms there.

I am always aware of energy, space, objects and beings beyond my body, because they are quite real! Maybe you just are feeling these things, and have to learn to work with the feelings. It's a real gift when you learn about it, because you can connect to the great love power of the universe. Then you can channel it for healing, for kindness, and for just living your life more fully, and more presently, and connecting with others more intentionally. We are meant to connect to one another, so ya, maybe you are becoming aware of the Great Oneness, and it feels so odd! Reach out with your heart and your love, send your intenttion for good things to a friend, and see how it makes you feel, and see how they act in return. Do it to lots of people, send them love! It's fun! :-) Best, Peace2theworld

I had the same problem, nothing helped for years, I was almost gonna give up.. in fact, I tied it all, nothing helped. Weed made it worse, drinking it too, DP, depersonalization... finally I decided I was gonna look to God, you know, when you give up all things you finally consider God as a option, funny how that is.
So I asked and asked and no reply, nothing. I fasted and asked for healing nothing. Then I called on Jesus, not just God, nothing again. BUT.. I got a feeling to read the new testament, I was not in a religious family at ALL... nor had I ever read a word of it, but I read it, asking only for one thing: a new spirit because I said this one is broken. Maybe because of sins, maybe because I was losing it, I don't care ... I said please God give me the Holy Spirit over and over... weeks passed, three to be exact, but I kept asking AND I kept reading a steady 10-15 pages a day. RIGHT NEAR THE END.. nothing had happened... I took a walk... I said GOD I have 20 pages left I am almost done, nothing has happened.. I began to cry and tell God I did not want to live this way anymore. THAT IF HE WAS REAL.. to please fix me because I had issues that I had no clue how to fix with this perception disorder. I read another ten pages, began Revelations, the last book. WOKE up next morning, I was healed, the Living Water bursting out from within the belly as Jesus said, I FELT it.. from within... BUT it was only in my belly area, like butterflies in my stomach, like I was on drugs but MORE powerful, WAY more powerful. I did not read anymore for 2 days.. .then I read the rest of what I had to finish and from the FIRST letter that hit my eyes, that BLISS from within my belly moved up into my brain, literally feeling this ENERGY of LOVE and POWER rush through my mind and push out all that was messed up. NOT only was I healed, but I felt SUPERHUMAN... as if God gave me a superpower. 12 years later the power is there and grows, I was shown Christ awake in a vision, then heaven, then hell and the devil himself who set me on fire as I got there as a new member i guess that is what he does to newcomers... touches them and passes on the flame.
BUT I yelled JESUS and I was taken out of there, Satan looked really mad. I SWEAR guys there is SPIRITUAL warfare going on here and that is the root of the problem right there. I TRIED IT ALL.. medication, meditation, healthy living, exercise, etc.. nothing helped except Christ who has ALL dominion. I swear I cried too during the reading, tears falling into my bible, LATER.. after the power came.. I went back and checked the tears, they were WHITE bread.

JESUS is love.

HE will help.. TURN to the word, to asking and NO SIN AT ALL.. no drinking, smoking, nothing.. JUST READ, ASK, WAIT and repeat until you finish 200 pages, the New Testament is only that long...

SO.. if anyone has any questions, message me: djvalis (AT) gmail (DOT) com


Much love... PS.. I went to no church, nothing. ME alone in my room reading and praying to God to help me BY giving me the SPIRIT OF CHRIST..

NOT JUST TO HELP ME.. GIVE ME A NEW SPIRIT, the HOLY SPIRIT Father, in JESUS NAME.

HE see's all... IF you are TRUE you will read, says Christ twice in the Gospel... STICK to it and finish it before you move on... GOD will help if one reads it all asking only for that, the HOLY SPIRIT or Living Water to flow from within and connect you up to the Spirit of God.

Hello, especially to toshy and peace2theworld, I have also experienced this recently.... like the past three weeks have been really messed up. To make this faster, you can skip the next two paragraphs...

The first I started feeling this is after I smoked a lot of weed and then did nutmeg (bad idea). To put a long story short, I was high pretty much the whole weekend, and when I "came down", I felt I didn't really come down. But I just brushed it off, believing the substances were still in my body... just "wait it out". And well, that hasn't really been working. So fast forward a lot, because it's been pretty much the same feeling through this time... which I'll describe later.

This week I've smoked weed just about every day, and on the last day I got higher than I ever have been before. I think I might have had a panic attack, because at the end of the last one I was pacing around anxiously, telling my friend "I'm really sorry, but I think you should leave, I have a lot of things to do.." And kind of repeated the same ideas numerous times. My mind was racing.

I believed that smoking weed would help, by bringing me further away from reality. I hoped it would make my "reality" (or lack thereof) more defined from the EXTREME nonreality that comes with cannabis.

Well, it didn't help, and I'm kind of freaking out. I smoked two days ago, and still nothing is connected to me. My friend did some similar things, and she described similar feelings.... About two weeks ago, she first brought up the feelings, which happened to be the EXACT SAME as mine.

Today, she described the feeling as being "underwater, as if you are surrounded by all other things, but they're floating, you can't quite touch it (with perception).

I described it similarly to peace2theworld, I realize the normal mind is about 50% the five senses and processing them, and about 50% thoughts and thinking... and I feel like I'm only 25% senses and 75% thinking, and because i'm not sensing as much the thoughts do not correlate very well to reality.

I'm subdued. I feel like I'm watching myself from somewhere different... I am still acting normal, people say, but where is my mind? (brilliant song).

I feel more derealization with almost no depersonalization.... I decided yesterday I'm going to try and reach a higher astral perspective... meaning little to no eating, lots of water, meditation (I usually do this quite often, but not in the past 3 weeks), and abstain from music (I feel this would help for some reason). Reality can come back in flashes, but they're short lived. Hopefully I can prolong these :)

I took an online personality disorder test (next paragraph) and it said I was a very likely schizotypal personality candidate.... which could very easily contribute....

Well, to try and help others I decided to post the website with the test I took... Please note this is NOT a formal diagnostic, but can be eye opening. ***edited by moderator*** web addresses not allowed
Anyways, I'd love to chat with whoever about this strange condition. Or whatever it is. :S

-T

I'm 30 and for the last 2 months i've had this weird thing. I go to do something for example brush my teeth and from the point where I think about doing it to the point where i'm at the sink it's like i've forgotten how I got there. Other times i'm in work and i'm going across the floor then the next thing is someone is talking to me and i'm questioning how they just appeared so fast... it's like I never saw them coming.. it's really worrying me! Help?

I have dealed with the same thing before... It comes and goes from time to time, I guess in that case I'm rather lucky. I've done some searching a year back... There's different theroies about the feeling... I am just going to call it "Mirror Disorder" for the fact it feels like your being reflected / traped in your own "Self". So some of the theroies on "Mirror Disorder" are... 1. There are those that believe it's related to drug use, and depression... A corrilation of the two... 2. There's a theroy connecting it to poor amounts of sleep... 3. There's also a theroy conecting it with Thoughts... Saying that the "Person" him/herself causes the problem... There's also an idea that it's a plecbo effect... meaning you think about the feeling, therefore you feel it... All I know for sure is it's a mental issue... nothing of a disorder... just something is causing your preception to screw up... I suggest you go to a free clinic and talk to a psychologist... They should know the name of the thing, and a few ways to deal with it... ... ... And sorry guys... I know this "Mirror Disorder" sucks... but if you don't look at every thing, and get reminded of it, it should go away... but thats just how I found to deal with it.



P.S. - And if your wondering, No... I haven't been to a psychologist about the issue... but only because I found my wn way to deal with it.

ive given up wanting to feel like im a part of everything. its not like the answers going to be on the internet. in fact, i bet this makes it far far worse

Same issues here, this is what has helped me so far:

Ensure your brain is operating at peak performance (I was missing essential brain foods).

Fix You're Broken Brain

check out the Ultra Mind Solution (it's a bit intense, but amazing!)

·         Add 60% more greens into your diet (veggies and such)

·         Take multivitamins for an extra boost (I can’t stand veggies, so this gives me what I need)

·         Add more greens to your diet

·         Eat less acidic foods

·         Make sure your getting enough Omega-3-6-9 (pills are cheap) + Vitamin B6+12 + Probiotics

Exercise

·         Add 60% more greens into your diet (veggies and such)

·         Take multivitamins for an extra boost (I can’t stand veggies, so this gives me what I need)

·         Add more greens to your diet

·         Eat less acidic foods

·         Make sure your getting enough Omega-3-6-9 (pills are cheap) + Vitamin B6+12 + Probiotics

 

Self Improve

·         Read and discover more about your life ( I recommend anything by Eckhart Tolle & Anthony Robbins)

 

Good Luck!