hi - I am slightly hesitant to write - i am afraid of being scorned for experiences/beliefs - but it may help.

*sigh*... ok.. you said one was a local news blurb - people dealing with "stuff", as we are, are often more "open" to other stuff because of all the traumas.

I have had some of those same things where suddenly a new "reality" came into play right over my actual one. I had been a disaster worker after hurricane katrina and you can bet i picked up some added ptsd from that.

one of the "realities" was that while the real me was eating christmas dinner with my family, there was a skeleton me who was furious that people would eat in front of me when i was dead and couldn't! I had to physically leave the table from feeling so angry and ill and seeing this skeleton self/imposed other person who was not me in my space.

I have only told one person about that because I though i'd be deemed nuts.

i know it was a direct result of the ptsd from hurricane katrina - i could even see the house that this "woman" had come from - one i had passed on my feeding route - that was in complete shambles.

The experience was horrifically firghtening (this other reality superimposed on me) because no one else could see it or knew what was going on. i didn't even know what was going on - it was unlike any flashback or panic attack i had ever had. And like you, i had a terrible panic attack right after it. it took several weeks to deal with it and more to really get over it.

That is not the only one I have had where reality shifted and I was the only one it included. Once was on a bus and everything shifted. Then the bus went thr wrong way and I asked why - I was told that instead of the 19, it was 36. I got off and when I looked at it, it said #8 on it. I was so very confused and had to walk 7 or 8 blocks to get the one i needed.

I do hope you're alright and that you will be able to have something that lessens them. If i can remember how they were lessened for me, I will let you know if you'd like. You may think me totally nuts by now and just delete this. EIther way is fine. it is hard to believe, after all.
Sincerely,
Kiya