I dissociate while being conscious but it can be dangerous for me because I'm much less able to react appropriately.

One time, I felt as though "I" was pushed to the back of my brain while a child self piloted my body because I stopped to pet a stray cat during a morning jog.

A stranger approached me and said he knew an old lady with some pet cats and I could feed and play with them. He took my hand and I went with him and he brought me to a deserted location while touching me more and more inappropriately. He was going to bring me to someone's home, he said. I think he thought we were intellectually impaired.

Adult me would have known something was wrong and never even talked with him but this child self did not. I was screaming inside my own head trying to tell this child self "danger!!!!! Run away!!!"

It could have gotten much worse but eventually I managed to force the child self to say "I want to go home" and he brought us back to near where he found us.