Is it normal that i dont feel connected to my physical body?

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Sometimes I will be sitting,driving, or just doing anything really, and i will all a sudden feel as if im disconnected from my own body. I feel like my name Amanda is not my own. I look at things that us humans do at these moments of clarity and think of how stupid it all is. Sometimes i will stare at myself in the mirror and feel like im looking at a stranger. Is this normal? I wish i could go into better detail, its just hard for me to put in words i guess.

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  • Glass
    11 years ago | pl

    The way I see it, our bodies our merely vessels for our minds. I started getting an idea for imortality a while ago. Our bodies wither away and die, our brain dies because it lacks a body to keep it running. But say we take away the body, and replace it with something that can keep giving nourishment to the brain indefinatly, we would essentially become immortal in an aging sense, so long as you didn't damage your brain or the systems that run the proper procedures to keep it running. So replace our organic bodies with synthetics and robotics, and couldn't we in theory live forever? Couldn't we solve almost every disease? Make all forms of different vessels for our mind, and wouldn't we in a sense become part god? Able to change our forms, not feel pain, not have to eat, and not age? Though this technology seems extremely far off...

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    • cup
      11 years ago | pl

      For this to work our brains would have to be immortal.

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      • Glass
        11 years ago | pl

        But is it our brains aging that causes us to die, or our bodies? If it's our brain aging that causes us to die, well then I guess I have to start thinking of methods to increase it's life span.

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        • cup
          11 years ago | pl

          Hmm, that's a pretty interesting concept. Personally, I don't see why any physical part of the body would exist in the same form forever. Of course, a person's consciousness may not be physically located in the body at all. That being said, I believe everyone does exist forever. We just change forms.

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  • kittyg7113
    11 years ago | pl

    I get this sometimes. Especially after drinking a lot. It's scary in the moment, but try not to let it freak you out.

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  • nowhereboy
    11 years ago | pl

    No problem. I have depersonalization nearly all the time. Its interesting because it only happens to insightfull people, normaly the kind of people who ask themselves questions about reality and life etc :)

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    • blueizbabe07
      11 years ago | pl

      I ask myself those questions ALL the time. I have always questioned reality and life. My whole life i have been told that i am a "old soul". I am really big in psychology. Have you ever heard of kafka or nietzche?

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      • blueizbabe07
        11 years ago | pl

        I also tried shrooms once. had a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE trip. I will never touch them again. I felt as if i completely left my body for 6 hours. i could not move or speak. I was in a depersonalization moment on steroids lol I wonder if i had a horrible trip because of that.

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        • nowhereboy
          11 years ago | pl

          ahhh good old shrooms. They will have contributed to your feelings of DP. That bad trip sounds like its brought out anxiety which triggers the feelings of unreality. I first got DP after a bad ketamine trip. It was the most scary/amazing trip i ever had.

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  • nowhereboy
    11 years ago | pl

    Word for word describing "depersonalization" look it up.

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    • blueizbabe07
      11 years ago | pl

      OMG this is exactly how i feel ALL the time. thank you for laving me this comment. Now that i know im not a weirdo with a weird problem make me feel alot better. Tank you! :D

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  • karmasAbich
    11 years ago | pl

    Awesome to hear. It's normal.

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