I feel like I'm not here

I also experience this. I am young (13), but at maximum sleep 7 hours a night. I wear glasses and have a horrific prescription, do you think this is a link? I have had a panic attack at a supermarket because it was too bright and I had no idea where I was and I had lost all sense of direction, have any others had this too? I have found that the only way to really be aware is to be in pain.  I often feel detached and unaware, and half the time I need people to repeat what they have just said. I am prone to periods of spacing out, where I just stand or sit there and others tell me I'm like a ghost. I have been through a while of self-harm, but although that is over, I feel even worse now and my depression has worsened. Maybe this is withdrawal?

Yeah, I've had this high like feeling, not sure what it is,But has gotten better, Just be active and Excersise and try not to think of it as much. It'll eventually go away.

Did this happen to yall after yall smoked weed?

I cannot believe I found this ! I am now 23 and you gals were 21 at the time? Jeez I also felt the whole inner ear thing .. Anyways it can also include your tonsils and if you smoke any substances.

I love this! I feel every word of this!

Me too! To all of this! I just want to be ME again! I'm 18 Male Wear contacts/glasses Ear problems as a very young child No drugs/alcohol/smoking This started after I was sick for a week and a half. I had a runny nose, sore throat, headache, congestion, hard coughing, and sore stomach. I was taking Tylenol, excedrin, and Claritin to help. As soon as the "dream state" started, I stopped taking all medicine, as I thought it might be caused by it, but it didn't help. I've had it for about a week now and it's like I hit a wall in my life. I can't think about much else and I just feel lost. I can't live like this. It's not me.

I feel the same way, I'm 15 and it feels like whenever I go somewhere or do something I'm not all there, or if I go out and do something I barely remember it by the time I'm home, and I don't get excited about things like I used too, I really wish I did and I knew what was wrong with me.

Wow, it's amazing how many people feel this way! I felt the same way for 17 months, every single day! It is a horrible feeling, I feel like I missed an entire year!! I have had every single test run...TG I have insurance. Every test...MRI, CT Scans, blood work times about 5, psychological tests...I had other symptoms as well including, pain, confusion, forgetfulness...and 19 doctors/specialists later, it's really like..."we don't know". I do have a diagnosis (not quite sure I believe it or not). They say from anxiety and depression. Part of the diagnosis is "Depersonalization Disorder". I just really find it hard that so many people are feeling this way. I described it to a doctor as "not myself, like I'm floating above my body. If you can, I would suggest getting in to see a psychiatrist...or a doctor who can prescribe you some antidepressants to see if that works. I do NOT like taking pills, but after a YEAR of this, and a whole lotta medication, since stopped and put on an antidepressant....I finally feel like myself....about 2-3 months into the antidepressants. Good Luck Everyone!

I get the same feeling. Feels like I'm just going through the motions and get this weird feeling that I describe as a feeling like numbness. I hate the feeling so much!

Try looking up depersonalization and derealization. I have had this for over 2 years and the doctor told me it was just anxiety. These two disorders are not well known by doctors...

Wow, I'm 19 and i have been feeling this way alot recently. I can't believe so many people have this too.

why you have such feelings, you know you should open your heart to others first.

I am 66 years old and have the exact same feelings. I pray a lot and cry out to God for deliverance from this spaced out feeling. This started about 4 or 5 years ago when I began noticing my hand on the steering wheel while driving as if I'm outside of myself. It has gotten increasingly worst. I've gone to see a neurologist and a licensed Christian therapist to no avail. I am not aware of this feeling when I am engaged in conversation or doing a task which holds my concentration. However, recently I been listening to myself talking over the telephone and began wondering if I was going to lose control over my speech. I am trusting God for deliverance. My MRI/MRA did show that I have some white matter in my brain but he didn't equate this with the symptoms I am having. My therapist thinks it physical; my neurologist thinks it mental. So I trust God and continue to live with it.

Im 48 female i have this same feeling sometimes lasts for months and it had been happening since i was a teenager it is awful and i hate it i have went years where it didnt happen but it is really hard to be normal when feeling like your asleep i am a bartender and feel drunk when at work around the drunks when im in this dream state i also do wear contacts and or glasses and always have i cant smoke pot it makes me feel drunk and the room spins i was told i have epstein bar syndrome i looked up low iron im gonna try taking iron i am desperate to feel real again ive been in this state for 2 months its like im wasting my life i never post anything but am hoping this will help someone i am also diabetic for ten years and on insulin but this dream crap has been with me since about 15 years old

Maybe this could help. This is NOT a religion of any kind. Just try for a while and see... :)  http://sidawson.org/2009/03/you-are-not-your-thoughts-emotions-or.html http://www.gurdjieff-internet.com/article_details.php?ID=242&W=44 Nobody knows what is possible for you and what is not. Can you try to walk when you are walking, establish a rhythm! Can you listen, see, taste, smell and touch! The body and the senses are essential - to be!Malcolm Gibson 1978 You are not your body, not your emotions, not your thoughts! If you are not those, then who are you?  I was always different, even as a child, completely different, knew something is wrong with people and this whole world. I was nine when I experienced a state with no thoughts, did not have anyone to talk about that, since my mother tried to convince me it was a dream, wich I was sure it was not. Anyway, as a teenager doing drugs, sex and alcohol, going through deep depressions, still  remembering that blissful state of nonthinking, but it did not happen again. Then years later I read a book my friend gave me, and my spiritual journey begined. I cant say it is an easy journey, probably the hardest thing ever, to see me like an open book, with all my flaws and acknowledge that they are mine, but not who I am. I am an actor in my life, a director of it, but first of all I am a viwer of this life, a witness to all of it. That is who we really are!  Love to all...