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Jetmoo
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Do other people ever feel like this?..

and are there any people who have improved from feeling this way...

I feel like im in a dream and my comprehension of time passing by is sort of lost. And its like time has stopped type thing whilst im in my own little world. On my own day in day out. My vision is like looking at a photograph all around me, as if it almost doesnt feel quite real. But i know it is and can touch it. I feel sort of disconnected. Even before i lost my job with M.E, when i still had some life, i could feel this even back then.

I feel like life isnt quite real although i know it is. Like im just waiting to snap out of it but im forever trapped in a dream or swirling fog.

At worst times it has felt like it doesn't matter how i act because my inhibitions are sort of less and its like it doesn't matter. Although at the same time i know thats not true and it does matter. But sometimes it just that sort of feeling whilst in a dream. Like consequences wont matter cos its like only a dream.

Its sort of a different feeling to when you are struggling to separate dreams from reality. I know this is reality and i dont get confused about it right now (although i have in the past as dreams are so vivid! When it was reoccuring repeating dreams and hypersomnia i used to struggle to tell them apart.)

Does this ever go away?
Even when i experience with all my senses (before this relapse) the feeling has never quite left me. Perhaps lifted slightly or perhaps i was simply temporarily distracted from the feeling. But it would always come back.

Can anyone relate to me?

My illness is neurological. I dont think the feelings i describe are trauma related.

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discontent is but a D word.

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Heck yeah I felt this before. Heck no it never goes away! It's why Alice in Wonderland and The Matrix(which coincidentally mentions Alice in Wonderland) were such a big success.

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jetmoo wrote:
My vision is like looking at a photograph all around me, as if it almost doesnt feel quite real. But i know it is and can touch it.

I live in an old sunbleached postcard. But, I died a long time ago.

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Have you been smoking bud?
I know thc is as high as 25 percent now.
That would explain it.
I wish it was legal in all states and all countries.
Ill end up dead before its legal.

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I used to feel that way a lot, it was mostly when I was stuck in an unhealthy lifestyle and socially isolated. I think mainly the isolation did it. Honestly in those couple years, it was talking on help that kept me sane. I'm really grateful I had a small way to connect.

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Anonymous wrote:
Have you been smoking bud?
I know thc is as high as 25 percent now.
That would explain it.
I wish it was legal in all states and all countries.
Ill end up dead before its legal.

No i dont smoke

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Ok.
Well maybe you have ESP??

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Anonymous wrote:
Ok.
Well maybe you have ESP??

What’s that?

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Slash wrote:

jetmoo wrote:
My vision is like looking at a photograph all around me, as if it almost doesnt feel quite real. But i know it is and can touch it.

I live in an old sunbleached postcard. But, I died a long time ago.

I’m sorry

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verge wrote:
I used to feel that way a lot, it was mostly when I was stuck in an unhealthy lifestyle and socially isolated. I think mainly the isolation did it. Honestly in those couple years, it was talking on help that kept me sane. I'm really grateful I had a small way to connect.

It helped me when I was going through nervous breakdown. It taught me so so much and really shaped me into who I am today. I think I learnt a great deal about how to interact with others too from seeing it and interacting on here all those years ago.

I was 15 when I first came on help. Now I’m 28. Wow!

When I was back at school I hardly used to talk at all. I’d respond but never initiate. Hello and smile was as far as i went. For most part. I’ve come a long way.

I like coming online to talk but it makes my body ache and feel more bad doing so. It’s always a sacrifice somewhere.

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Slash wrote:

I live in an old sunbleached postcard. But, I died a long time ago.

Whoah, that's deep. In a poetic tragedy kind of way.

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i do believe self-confinement with ease of the internet access invites people to isolation. Even people on their phones go out pretending to be social but still brain locked on to social media is a bit ironic.

i've been socially inept for a long time.. but when i do go out i have to get into character because my anxiety gets real troublesome when i try to " just be my self "

so i guess with what your saying.. i'll say i'm an unrealistic character in reality.

to be truly free from it.. prob need some companion for that one.

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