It's not unusual for me to feel disconnected from reality. I zone out several times a day. Right now I know I'm writing, but as if it isn't me who is writing. I can see my hands, but they don't feel my hands in my mind. I can read this post, but as if someone else is reading it. Things are bright and fuzzy in my eyes. Sometimes blurry. I'm not sure if anyone else experiences something like this. I think it affects how I deal with the world, because I feel many times that I'm not real, and nothing is real. For example when I'm out, I see things moving, but ... they don't seem real. As if I live in another dimension. Time slows down or even stops in my mind. Does anyone experience something like this?

[*Laurie*]

I experience what I call derealization. For me it feels kind of like I'm looking at the entire world through a glass wall. It never goes away, and feels very disturbing. Everything seems 'alive', even inanimate objects.Time always seems odd to me...it's as if time flows in a strange way.

[avlady]

I felt this way a lot. I feel like i'm doing things like housework while i'm watching tv or working on my computer.

[justxholdon]

Yes, I struggle with this too, especially at work.

[it'sgrowtime]

This happens to me, too. I don't always feel that way, though. Sometimes it is persistent and uncomfortable, and I feel like I can't understand that I live on the earth since I'm all wrapped up living in my mind. I'm not sure what it is, or what it means.
These days, I know to "ground" when I notice it. It does seem to help.

[kareandkompassion]

That is certainly similar to how my Dad described his experience of depersonalization/derealization. For him it began with stress/trauma. I was a young child at the time. I deal with my own mental health struggles; I am looking for insights into how his depersonalization/derealization would have affected the way that he parented me and how I might have come to understand that world... anyone have any insights into this? I would appreciate listening to you... Hope it's okay to ask - grateful for any help.

[lalalost]

I feel this way too. Often when something else has caused me to want to escape from reality, like anger mostly. Sometimes I just get so mad at my partner I cant even say anything and it is like I disconnect from my own body and am seeing the world move around me. I call it the 'inbetween' because I am here but not here. There are times when I cant even get comfortable laying in bed because I dont feel like it is me who is laying there, if that makes sense. Honestly there are times when I do not mind this feeling of being in the 'inbetween' it keeps my emotions from bursting out.

[Loose Screw x 2]

Does any of this sound like solipsism or paranoia to any of you? If so, you may want to check out this newly posted thread.
https://forums.psychcentral.com/othe...-wrong-me.html
Some of what you guys are describing sounds similar to this in some ways.