my location goes by a different standard..

that there is a difference between dissociation and daydreaming...

my treatment providers follow the definitions that .....

daydreaming is when a person willfully and consciously imagines a story or conversation or mentally playing pretend....

example I can sit here at my computer and daydream ...imagine I am somewhere tropical maybe the caribbian laying on a nice warm beach drinking a pina colada

Dissociation is a normal response (feeling numb, spaced out, disconnected, ....) to a trigger (anything that causes a person to feel emotional)

Example....while sitting here at my computer I hear a clap of thunder. thunder is triggering to me because I was abused during a storm and had to make my way home in a storm after the abuse. thunder causes me to feel numb, spaced out and disconnected. feeling spaced out, numb and disconnected is my automatic response to the trigger of thunder.

dissociation here with my treatment provider is something that unconsciously happens to me not something I can plan and purposely do.

I do not purposely set out to be spaced out, disconnected or numb example I dont go around saying or thinking oh my gosh I am bored I think I am going to be4 numb now or be spaced out now or be disconnected like I can say and think oh my gosh I am so bored what if I was sitting on a beach in the Caribbean drinking a pina colada instead of all this snow and cold weather.