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When I was about 9, I looked at my hand and suddenly realized how.. distant it was from myself.
This isn't referring to distance in the sense that I was holding my hand as far away as possible. Obviously.
Since then, I've always just considered my hands, and the rest of my body, as just that. My body. Not me. Just something I use to interact with the world.
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Anyone else?
I sometimes have it for a few seconds...
Then I think that I am a strange programm (consciousness) controling a spaceship (my body)...
...and that the connection between is so infinite complex and difficult to understand...
...but at those moments I also feel like an alien...
...so foreign somehow...
Go see help and ask the doctor how your feeling they have a name for that but I forgot just see a doctor just to be on the safe side
LOL this the start of a mental illness○ J/K ☺
but I know what your talking about I used to do this too when I was little
Maybe you're a superhero...or mentally disabled. Not much of a difference anyways.
WOW!!
Yes YEs and YES!! I was actually going to post a similar thread but found it hard to describe the feeling...and thinking that nobody on earth would even understand let alone feel the same way. I remember when I was young and even now to some extent, looking in the mirror and not feeling totally connected to the person I was looking at...like looking at myself from within a mask. I really feel like I am IN this body, and not the this body in me.
Sounds like you may have DPD, depersonalization disorder. I have this and it sucks but obviously it's something we can live with. Everyone experiences it at least once in their lives, usually under stress or shock or something, but if you get it for no apparent reason and often recurring, it may be a problem. Unfortunate thing is that there isn't much you can do about it right now. Maybe in the future...
How could it be a problem? It's just kind of.. another view of things. In my mind. Please elaborate.
Well, there is something called depersonalisation and it is a very real problem. I think that I've experienced depersonalisation before due to depression.
However, I took what the author was writing about to be slightly different - as you said, another view of things.
With depersonalisation, there is a sense of not being in the moment and living and instead merely "going through the motions." It can have an impact on your everyday life and can become quite serious.
I am the author. Haha.
That's very different. I don't feel distant from life. I just seem to view it in a different way.
Haha nice to meet you :)
That's what I thought. I think you misunderstood what I said in my first reply which is waaay up there somewhere. What I meant with the habits of our everday life and so on was more to do with viewing it from a distance and seeing how...strange it looks; as though you're seeing it for the first time. I thought that was a similar feeling to the one you described. You know? I', sorry, I'm explaining this really vaguely (might be because I'm trying to eat a pear at the same time mind you.)
I group these "distance realisation feeling things" together with all these other feelings, such as when I get "wow, I'm alive, right here, right now. That's pretty cool" moments. Or maybe I'm alone on that one.
I'd like to know the connection with Asperger's syndrom as well. Although I'm pretty sure, as I said, they're not related. At least in this case.
Asperger's Syndrome is a form of Autism isn't it? How is what he feeling Autism?
I'm pretty sure that isn't it. A brother of mine has autism so if I had anything similar, it would have been noticed.
Well, yes, I've noticed that I seem distant from life on a very regular basis. Probably due to the repetitive aspect of school and such. I just wonder "Has time passed? I forgot I was, you know, living." Basically.
But this seems different. Because while it was sudden then, it's consistent now.
All of the time. Funny, isn't it?
This feeling of "distance" can happen with other things too, such as every day life and our habits. It can happen with everything. It's interesting when it happens, because it's like you're suddenly seeing things from a point of view that was previously completely obscured.