I know those terms, and I kind of understand what they refer to, I am not sure I experience them. This is what happens to me:

I'll just be in some conversation, and it's like I just drop out of it, like I fall into my body, and it's going on around me, and I can hear it up there, but I'm not there any more, and all of my responses or whatever come late, there's like a several second delay. Normally I just stare straight ahead and zone out, it's actually kind of comforting to me. Though I know it's F'd up too! People who are around me a lot notice it, especially my wife who Fin' HATES it! She's like HELLO! I'm OVER HERE! Which I find to be extremely unhelpful.

ANYHOW!

Does that sound like dissociation? OR derealization? And what exactly is the difference between those things?

Please help me understand! Thanks?
Oh, where does it come from???
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