There are different levels of dissociation and dissociative disorders... it's almost like a spectrum.

On one end, there is stuff like driving home after a long day at work, you always go the same way, you remember getting in the car and starting to head home, and then you're home and you don't remember actually driving the whole way. To an extent, this is normal. When someone is exhausted, they can go into autopilot mode, sort of.

In the middle of this "spectrum", there's (in no particular order, cuz im tired and going off memory) fugue states, depersonalization, the kind of dissociation that is common with PTSD where it's like watching a traumatic event from above like you are floating, and probably a few others I am not remembering.

Then on the other end is DID. It's considered the most severe dissociative disorder. It usually takes a bit of history and talking with doctors and Ts to come to an official diagnosis, and even then, some will only stand with DD-NOS for awhile to be sure.

I know, for me, the experience of conversations in my head that I'm not a part of is familiar. I also have a diagnosis for a psychotic disorder, and can get the same sensation but it seems to be coming from around me, in thru my ears. The doc will want to make sure it's not something like that.

The feeling of waking up as someone else could also fall somewhere lower on the spectrum and not all the way at DID...

Just keep trying to talk and explain with your doc and T (if you have one). I really hope it works out for you, and that you get answers.

Puck

P.S. I have been diagnosed DID for ~13 years and have done a lot of my own research and studying as well as schooling, but I am by no means a professional.