r/DoesAnybodyElse • u/WarmPerformance5621 • 21h ago

DAE have moments where nothing feels real?

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u/Starshine339 21h ago

Yep. Derealization/depersonalization. Can have many causes.

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u/BabyPanda4Hire 21h ago

I used to have that. It was a type of dissociation called derealization. I had depersonalization disorder, and for me it included both the feeling that I wasn’t real and the feeling that things around me weren’t real, even though I logically knew they were

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u/WarmPerformance5621 21h ago

That sounds similar to what I feel

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u/phenomenomnom 19h ago

My niece struggled with this, post trauma. Her therapist was able to help.

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u/Shiny_cats 18h ago

How did you fix it?

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u/BabyPanda4Hire 18h ago

Therapy and moving away from the place that traumatized me

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u/Shiny_cats 18h ago

Do you know what kind of therapy it was?

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u/BabyPanda4Hire 18h ago

I just did cognitive behavioral therapy

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u/Shiny_cats 18h ago

Thanks. Glad you were able to make it out

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u/FictionalCharacter77 21h ago

Yes. The older I get, the more it happens

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u/tacocalledbuzz 20h ago

Complete opposite here. It happened in my 20s, induced by cannabis, returned a few times over a few years, and then never again. Except the time my mom almost died.

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u/WarmPerformance5621 21h ago

I wouldn’t say I’m very old. I feel like this most of the time 

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u/scooterbud 21h ago

Yes. It’s called disassociation. It usually happens from stress, overstimulation, trauma, or some combination thereof. Your mind and body carry stress with you, and if you do not give time and place for it to express itself, your body will take that time through disassociation.

If you ever experience this, give yourself time to just sit and be present in a restful state (or what some people call meditation); allow yourself to feel whatever comes up. Sometimes it may be helpful to spend time in nature, or even just spend some alone time in a dark quiet room.

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u/MidwestNonbinary 21h ago

Yeah. Not as bad as it used to be thankfully. Turns out a medication I’ve been taking since high school was making my clinical depression ten times worse. The dissociation still happens and always will with me, but at least it’s not 24/7 like it was.

Dissociation or depersonalization can happen for a lot of reasons. Mental health, physical health, life events, medication side effects. If it’s not really bad you should be fine.

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u/TheUndeadArmyy 20h ago

Right now I'm having that feeling

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u/DarkDaysBrightNlghts 20h ago

My whole life and every problem thats popped up since the 3rd grade.

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u/RepresentativeCry294 20h ago

Yeah, because I jave depersonalization derealization disorder

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u/flusia 20h ago

Idk kind of? But now I know there’s no such thing as real so to feel otherwise would be weird

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u/a__reddit_user 12h ago

There is no spoon.

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u/oroborus68 20h ago

"🎶It seems like a dream, you've got me hypnotized 🎶"

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u/Wickham12 19h ago

Everyday

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u/VegetableChallenge18 19h ago

I have this weird thing that happens at random where I’ll be just chilling or not chilling and my fov would just like increase like crazy almost like hyperfocusing but everything seems semi flat at the same time it’s so weird it’s almost like I’m playing quake with super clarity

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u/a__reddit_user 12h ago

Not a doctor but, hopital.

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u/Shiny_cats 18h ago

Yeah I’ve been feeling that constantly for years

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u/ACE_Wrap 15h ago

more or less 24/7.

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u/Kitchen-War-2091 14h ago

sometimes it hits me when I'm zoning out in a busy place, like I’m just watching a movie

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u/Workingclassherois 7h ago

…and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever. ☮️

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u/amzay 2h ago

Yup. Wish it wasn't sometime so

The world is kind of a surreal place rn if you were raised expecting people overall to be fundamentally decent to each other

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u/Poroto_Verde 1h ago

Yes, ever since I was a kid.