I disassociate all the time to varying degrees and have since I was about 5 years old. I am 40 years old now. I used it to deal with horrendous abuse by my father. Sometimes I don't recognize myself when I look in the mirror, it's like looking at a stranger. Sometimes I imagine I am so tiny, the size of a gnat, and crawling around in the fibers of the carpet. Other times I am floating up in the clouds. It helps me so that I don't die from the sheer pain and magnitude of it.