If you have ever experienced both, what were the defining differences between the two?

If you haven't, what do you feel is the difference?

I've been researching it, and I've been wondering if maybe my last episode that ended so bad was dissociation instead of psychosis. I definitely had an escape from reality, as in I believed I was dreaming. I thought I was in my unconscious/sleeping, and that when I was really asleep (which wasn't all that much) I was actually awake. It doesn't explain the other symptoms I had, like my delusions, or my racing thoughts, or my hallucinations, etc. Or how I believed I knew all the secrets of the universe, and was becoming like the buddha or something, and that I was trying to make as much positive energy in my mind so that when I "woke" up I'd release it, eliminate all negativity, and pretty much save the world.

But I just wonder.

Thoughts?