Does anyone else dissociate intentionally? We are having an extremely stressful time now. Since I just had minor surgery, I have a real world excuse for crawling into bed for awhile & cancelling prior plans. So I've been 'napping' most afternoons. I was surprised how long. Then I realized it was our way of everyone getting a time out from the stress. & we have done it for years when we feel we can't handle what is going on. Alters actually do de-stress & the strongest one comes out to take over afterwards. We just need to keep a guard on duty....in case of fire!!!! Don't really want to change as this obviously works for us. But with our current stress load we could sleep all day. Just wondering if others take such a time out???