Have you ever lost something right in front of you?

I don't know if this is the same, but I went to the store and tranced. By the time I got to leave, I had no clue which street I parked on! I still have nightmares about it every night, hours of looking for my ride where I wander up and down streets, garages, secret tunnels that go no where, it's so freaking frustrating!!!

I get so freaked that I can't sleep for hours.

Every single day, from the hair brush in the morning, to the portable equipment at work.

Thanks Phoenix 7. Much appreciated.

Thank you guys.

Ya, all the hair on my body disappeared :/

I can never find my car keys. I do have a designated spot for them but they seem to grow legs and move.

Hahahaha I have experienced the same rather surprising loss!

Especially on therapy days...

Yes. I always thought I was having timeline slips, parallel universes intersect. I thought my therapist didn't understand quantum physics. Ha! I was so wrong. I have someone helping me work on sudoku. Yesterday when I got my puzzle, it was 1/3 done.

i have this happen very often, i didnt realise it was so common

Robo

I both do, and I don't. I am well able to look at things and not see them. Happens all the time. I guess this is dissociative? On the other hand. I hardly ever loose anything for real. So one part of me is quite meticulous, extremely well organised, and has pedantic attention to detail.

Oh and yesterday couldn't find the place I put my towel and stuff on the beach. Like, why didn't you think where you put it! Felt like an idiot.

Literally right in front of me. I can be looking directly at the item (and my eyesight is fine), pondering where it could be, and still require a too-long stretch of time to figure out I'm looking right at it. I've considered getting those beeper stickers for finding important items, but the list of what I don't want to lose track of on the daily is too long.

Once after travelling out of state, I realized I couldn't find my datebook, and among other things it held at the time 3 months worth of handwritten prescriptions from my pdoc. I'd only been with her 6 months or so and was worried she would think I was selling them on the street or something. (I'd seen her require other patients to file police reports before she'd issue new scrips to them.. headache.) Weird thing is, I'd looked at least 5 times in every fold of my carry-on before giving up and telling her about it. Found it in there a week later, just sitting there... it was as if some ghost had removed and then replaced it there to prank me (I live alone), it was so easy to find after having been so impossible.

I've at least become more accustomed to the fact that things aren't really lost as much as I perceive them to be, so that the panic lessens. But it still takes forever to find what is sometimes right in front of my eyes.

I really didn't think other people experienced this to the same degree.. you mean it's not just me? Thank you

Doing that all the time, but I used to excuse it with boredom or tiredness in the past, before I started to think about dissociations, and I've only started considering it about 3 weeks ago. Now I need to look closer into what I thought was boredom, because it turns out it was something else all the way.