Please dont feel bad. I have dissociation from a pretty young age. It's not something you choose as a coping mechanism with thought.

With me it feels lile everything physical in my environment becomes soft and big and puffy, but, sounds and voices do also and everything just is going soo slow. It's the weirdest feeling. I feel very small and sort of out of my body, kind of like I am floating half in my body half out ..hard to explain really. But I can see from my point of view and from outside myself. I feel resistance to my movement like when you are in water.

When it does happen, which is far less often and I actually find it kind of enjoyable most times although unsettleing at the same time. I'm not sure I ever pin pointed triggers just seemed to happen. But I have had lot of trauma in the past and stress has always been an issue for me.

It's funny because I never knew what it was so I would ask friends and family if they ever felt that. No one ever did say yes. Makes it hard to talk or interact with anyone but I never felt very scared of it somehow. It can be short lived or last for quite few hours, not much of a pattern for me at all. I am sure this is related to my ptsd. But I would think anyone could develop this coping mechanism.

Ground may work well, I havent tried it for that either. Have noticed that I have learnt other ways to deal and work with stress and anxiety that this seldom happens anymore. I don't have anxiety aytacks anymore either, which is nice. Maybe if you keep working with the mindfulness and try grounding techniques or other ways to manage the stress or the triggers then it may not become a regular thing for you.