There are so many ways that people dissociate. I'm not sure if you need more descriptions, but I experience it a few ways, some that I didn't recognize as dissociation until recently. The first thing that I realized was dissociation was when someone asks me what I am staring at, or why I am staring at them, and I had no awareness, was not looking at anything, and have no explanation of where I was or what I was thinking about, but I sure wasn't present. More frequently, I'll be driving somewhere and before I know it, I'm past where I was supposed to turn (having forgotten to turn off), or I arrive at the wrong destination, or just realize that I'm on the way to the wrong destination. One that I didn't know was dissociation until recently (I called it an "auditory processing delay) is when someone is talking to me and I don't catch what they said until after I have already answered their question, usually not the way I would have if I had heard the question, and then they react to my answer and I finally realize what they asked and have to try to explain what happened.