When I start to enter a dissociative state, everything slows down - the world around me, my movements. My arms and legs, my body, feels heavy, like its an effort to move, and then suddenly, I can't move, like I'm paralyzed. I feel like I have cotton in my ears. My vision narrows down, like tunnel vision. I cannot talk or communicate in any way. I feel like I am outside my body, watching myself from a distance. I can stay frozen like this for hours unless someone helps bring me out - by gently touching my arm and talking to me softly, reminding me of where I am, telling me who I am. It takes awhile but gradually sight and hearing come back.

It's scary - happened three or four times while working through SA memories.