I have had strange expiriences, that I never considered Dissociation. But may reflect derealization and depersonalization.
Sometimes I feel like everything around me, is a dream, or that it doesnt feel like its "mine" in a sense. How I relate to the world feels completely foreign.
But when I was little, and this is the strangest expirience I used to have all the time, and still once in a while feel:
I would be laying down or something, just relaxing, and all of a sudden, my whole body, every molecule in my body, all the tactile sensation of my clothes, my bed, the floor, my blanket, whatever, felt SO TINY. And I felt like my whole body was so so so so so so BIG. Enormous!
I felt like everything I was touching was so tiny and I could feel a sensation that the only way I could describe it to myself as a child was "I feel like I'm so big, that Im going to break anything I touch because im so heavy and so much bigger than everything."
I usually felt it most in my fingers. I rub the fabric of my blanket between my pinky, ring finger, and thumb, and have my middle finger and index finger placed in my mouth (i still do this, lol) and it felt like the blanket fabric was so so so tiny and that my fingers were giant and swolen and i could feel the sensations of the fabric on my fingers really intensely, that i might rip the blanket, eventhough it was just being gently rubbed.
Like I was a really heavy giant squishing everything.
It was strange, and the sensation only lasted a few moments or a few minutes at the most. But it happened at least once a week througout my entire childhood.
Now it only happens once in a while if im dozing off. It probably hasnt happened for a few years even. It used to confuse me but I just assumed I was having some strange expirience and it never worried me too much. Thought it was really intense and confused me usually.
Anyone else have an expirience similar to that?
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