My type of paranoia is pretty mild. I usually think people who matter to me don't really like me and are talking behind my back saying bad things about me. Happens all the time.

My dissociation, on the other hand, can be quite extreme. I'm completely gone, like I've blacked out. Or the all my surroundings change and become all distorted and my body is contorted in odd ways and not where it is before the episode.

Once I started dissociating while I was driving and it was very scary. Luckily I didn't have far to go.