Is it normal to feel like i’m living in a videogame?

For the past 2-3 years, I’ve consistently felt 24/7 like I’m living in a dream or a videogame or like I’m watching myself through a screen. I feel like I’m disconnected from my body and from the world. I don’t really recognize myself in the mirror, and I don’t feel like I love or even know the people I’m supposed to, even though before I started to feel this way I was perfectly capable of love. For example, if I’m talking to my mother (who I have always had a great relationship with), I logically know that’s my mother, but it doesn’t feel like it and I don’t really recognize her that much and she seems like a stranger to me. It’s the same for all of my friends and other family members. The logical connection is there, but other than that, I feel like I am completely detached from reality. It feels like my actions have no immediate consequences. Like I could throw a rock through a window and it would just regenerate or go right through it like a ghost. It’s becoming extremely difficult to form new relationships with people, go into public places (without getting confused about who I am and where I am, even though I logically am aware, it doesn’t feel like it), or function in life.

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Based on 7 votes (4 yes)
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  • 813318

    this is actually called dissociation and could be related to mental illness. i suggest seeing a psychiatrist. but remember that mental illness doesnt make you a freak or whatever. this isnt some teen movie. i understand this feeling and know it fucking sucks so please seek help bro. hmu if anything happens

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    • okay thank you so much

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      • 813318

        hope everything works out bro.

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  • abnormoth

    I have been diagnosed with depersonalization-derealization disorder and it feels like what you are describing. It's difficult but it gets easier and can go away for some people. Don't take my word for a diagnosis of course, see a doctor as suggested by the other person.

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