First post, I am new here.

I have been having a shift in how I feel when dissociating recently when in therapy. Almost like a dizzy feeling, it is kinda weird and almost feels scary unlike how in the past when I dissociate, it feels more calming and I am okay with it.

Was doing some EMDR during therapy. I normally use the heardphones, but the batteries needed to be replaced, so we did it the old fashioned way my therapist doing the fingers left to right and me following it with my eyes. I always have a hard time doing it this way because I seem to focus too much on following her fingers and forget to think about the memory or have a hard time doing so.

One of the times we stopped and she asked me how I was feeling, I said okay. (Think I was feeling numb.) She continued talking and all of a sudden I started to feel like I may be dissociating. It started feeling like this particular way after a few months when I started seeing this therapist. Like the world around me is drifting away and I feel like I am more in my core (like I am detached from my arms and legs, so I try to rub my hands on my arms, and then just those areas I will feel more attached to, but not my whole arms), sometimes more near my back looking out. Sometimes I feel dizzy, and I did that time. Then suddenly I felt like I was going to start crying and I didn't feel dizzy or as dissociated anymore. I told my therapist that I felt distracted just now because I felt dizzy and then felt like I was going to start crying. She told me to let myself feel it and had me cross my arms over my chest and tap on my shoulders and close my eyes. I tried to feel the feelings, but they drifted away again.

After that I felt exhausted and had pressure in my head, almost a headache.

Does anybody experience a dizziness like this?

It happens often during the EMDR, too, when we are using the headphones. I tell my therapist I think I am dissociating. So I open my eyes, but I try to start again and I get dizzy fairly quickly, like the world is trying to drift/spin away and I feel more light.




I also just remembered I had a dream a few nights ago where I didn't stop myself and let myself stay dizzy/dissociate to see what would happen, let myself fall into it, but what happened really scared me, even though I don't remember exactly what happened.