Sasha
Junior Daydreamer
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Post by Sasha on Jan 10, 2020 19:12:29 GMT
Hey guys,
I was just wondering if anyone else doesn't really recognize their face after leaving a daydream? Is this some sort of dissociation thing or...? It's not like I don't know it's me, or that I see something that has changed, but rather it feels like I can see myself for the first time and it's not right. Sometimes this happens when I look at my hands too. They feel disconnected with my body, and I feel weird using them. Anyone else? Please help
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Post by sarah on Jan 17, 2020 3:39:16 GMT
I have a form of mdd where not only do I dd about characters I also pretend to be them too. At times I've experienced not recognizing my self too. Such as when I look at myself in a mirror or a photo of myself. I realize it is me I'm looking at but it feels like someone else. At times I feel the same way about my name too. I know it's my name but it feels like it belongs to someone else too. I haven't experienced feeling like my hands arms feet etc feel like there not my own though by looking at them.
I think it might be after disasociating from my identify of myself and pretending to be characters that look different from myself for so long my mind has begun to think I should look different from what I look like in a photo. However there may be another explanation. Maybe Im experiencing some form of depersonization instead. This seems like a more down to earth explanation.
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Marcydel
Junior Daydreamer
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Post by Marcydel on Jan 17, 2020 4:15:04 GMT
Um probably not as strongly as you probably do, but yeah, sometimes I look at myself in the mirror and kinda think “  , that’s ME. Oh yeah, I’m a person too, just like my characters. Except they just seem more real to me than me.” I’m not an expert or professional, so idk if it’s disassociation. |
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Post by pothis on Jan 18, 2020 17:50:10 GMT
I felt that too and made me even think whether I'm just pretending to be the character in my dream, or that character has actually taken the form of an alter. They are starting to have a voice of their own already but I doubt that I have DID... I do have memory issues, but as far as I am diagnosed, I'm still just MDing
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Post by kondiao on Jan 20, 2020 4:00:28 GMT
Hey guys, I was just wondering if anyone else doesn't really recognize their face after leaving a daydream? Is this some sort of dissociation thing or...? It's not like I don't know it's me, or that I see something that has changed, but rather it feels like I can see myself for the first time and it's not right. Sometimes this happens when I look at my hands too. They feel disconnected with my body, and I feel weird using them. Anyone else? Please help |
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Post by kondiao on Jan 20, 2020 4:19:25 GMT
I was at a chiropractor's office , in Cedar City, Utah, and he had me go ahead back to the Tx room ahead of him and I stood there in front of the mirror and did not recognize myself. I was scared as hell. I thought this means I really am losing my mind. Just staring in wonder and near-panic  WTF is going on? what am I supposed to do now? It faded out after a few minutes and when the chiropractor came back to twist my back I was able to "fake it" as I do most of the time - act like I am a normal person. These Dissociation-type events are so Twilight Zone to me. Recently I have been going through a lot of "Deja Vu"? events.  of the terminology. But it feels sort of like I am "remembering" the things in the present as opposed to experiencing them as they are happening; like wires got crossed, like someone mixed up the connections and you are looking at what the camera is showing now but it is the recording of yesterday. Like, there I am, laying in bed, knowing it is morning and time to get up and go do something and I am like remembering a dream or something and cannot bring the memory up and I am that this is not really a dreamed memory but a present thought that I am not able to grasp. I never had associated this with MaDD. I almost live out there in my Walter Mitty world, DDing even about what to write here on this forum instead of being present in what I am doing so these weird events I did not think had to do with coming out of DD. I really do thank you have bringing this up. And I hope someone here can throw some light on these issues. Like WTF can we do about it when it is happening? Myself, i do have a new method I got from an online Meditation program that I have hopes will help me. I will share more about this later, if I find it works reliably. |
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, that’s ME. Oh yeah, I’m a person too, just like my characters. Except they just seem more real to me than me.” I’m not an expert or professional, so idk if it’s disassociation. 
WTF is going on? what am I supposed to do now? It faded out after a few minutes and when the chiropractor came back to twist my back I was able to "fake it" as I do most of the time - act like I am a normal person.
of the terminology. But it feels sort of like I am "remembering" the things in the present as opposed to experiencing them as they are happening; like wires got crossed, like someone mixed up the connections and you are looking at what the camera is showing now but it is the recording of yesterday.