After going through a trauma I had this happen a lot...the first time it happened it scared me so badly....I was working at the ranch getting hay for the horses & it was like I was watching myself do the work. Someone said something to me & I answered....but while I was answering I was wondering how I knew what to even say. Glad I wasn't driving at the time but H decided he had to stop at the market on the way home. I didn't want to sit in the car so I went in & it was like I was watching myself wandering around the market without being able to focus on anything....I was so glad to get home.

I talked to my pdoc about what was happening & he said it was called "depersonalization". It was actually happening all the time while I was staying the 3 weeks in the hospital next to my mother to make sure she was protected from the home care person who had OD'ed her on her morphine. (my mom was dying of cancer at the time). I don't remember too much about those 3 weeks living & sleeping in the chair next to my mother's bed bit I remember that it was like watching a movie.

Depersonalization, derealization are all coping skills that the mind uses to protect itself from stressful situations. It doesn't become a problem until it actually effects our every day life functioning. There are grounding techniques that can be learned to help if that is actually happening.

People who experience depersonalization don't loose time, they just watch the events happening....much different than dissociation.....you might check out the forum on this here....& see if that's what you are experiencing.

I'm sure that your meds could be causing a reaction also....so it's not always easy to tell where those experiences are actually coming from.

Hope you are able to sort through this & find peace with what is happening