I never once thought to associate myself with the term before despite being aware of it, but I've recently come to know more of it and I feel like I may have this or at least have experienced dissociative episodes.

The last paragraph is the most important.

I do get spaced out sometimes, and seldom I feel like a minute has passed by really quickly and I'm not sure I was completely there during that time, but it doesn’t really bother me. when I go on car rides, I find that my surroundings look a bit unreal. I do know that they are though, and I'm not overwhelmed by this, but it is interesting to me. If this does mean anything, I think it’s really mild.

I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I also think I have childhood amnesia. I really don't have much to remember since my childhood was very boring and nothing special ever happened, but I feel like I should still remember more than minor details and that my memories should be more vivid. Only these last few weeks have I actually started thinking about this, and it took my all that time to remember a lot of things that I completely forgot about, yet not in detail.

What I’m really concerned about though is during high school, I just realized I may have dissociated a lot, nearly on a daily basis. I would lay for what felt like minutes doing nothing, feeling nothing, being nothing, and time would just somehow fly until I realized 2 hours had passed. I purposefully did this like a coping mechanism. I just shut my brain off when things got a bit too much. I felt like I wasn’t even there during these “episodes”, and that they could have lasted forever had I not been snapped out of it. I haven’t been in these states since I graduated over a month ago. I guess high school in itself was a really stressful time for me and it triggered these episodes. Is this what would be considered a dissociation episode? Does it just go away or am I going to start experiencing them again if I start feeling like I was then? Or do I still have the disorder if I even have it at all if I'm experiencing very mild symptoms?