Derealization ?

[healingsoul]

Hi there,

I'm fairly new to this forum, and I have to ask:
Anyone ever deal with derealization, whether it's an aura or just comes and goes? I don't really know how to describe this specific sx -- but I'll try.
It's as if there's different levels of it. The first level is a thin fog over the brain, where you have some emotions, but it's a feeling of detachment. Second level of it is like a thicker fog, everything looks surreal and again, a feeling of detachment -- like you can't feel or it's like nothing is real. Intellectually, you know it's real -- but it's as if your brain don't want to acknowledge it is. Lastly, the third level of it is kind of terrifying. It's as if you're in a thick fog, and you can't connect to anything. You have thoughts like the sky looks domed shape and perception of time is temporarily lost.

. . . that's the only way I can describe mine. Yes, I have read about derealization and disassociation, but am I the only one that experiences this sometimes? It can last a day or weeks. The thicker form of it never really lasts that long, but the thinner fog stays for a while sometimes.

It's manageable as long as you can feel some emotion -- but when you feel nothing but hollowness and emptiness, it becomes a little unnerving.

I've dealt with it off and on in my life -- it never sticks around for years; it just comes and goes at random.

I know it's the brain defending itself, and is a defense mechanism.

Anyone else ever get derealization?

 

[Porkette]

Hi healingsoul,

There will be times when I'm sitting in my own home and then nothing looks familiar to me and everything in the room looks like it's off in a distance. My neuro told me this was
Jamius Vu happening to me which can sometimes lead to seizures, I was told to just concentrate and remind myself where I am until it stops and then it's over. It is weird how it happens but it's part of the type of epilepsy I have. I wish you the best of luck and May God Bless You!

Sue

 

[Music36]

healingsoul,

I experience derealization occasionally. It happened a lot the first year after I had epilepsy surgery. I walk my dogs every day in my neighborhood. I started walking them again about six weeks after surgery. Sometimes when I'd be walking down the streets looking around everything seemed surreal. Another example is I would walk into the supermarket and everything would seem surreal. One more example, I'll be sitting in the car with my boyfriend driving and all the other cars I would see would seem surreal and my perception of the road and the lines on the road would be different than usual-- I remember once feeling like I was watching a movie as we were driving down the road.

 

[seagull]

I don't know if this it.i get awful feeling I not real and panic,I have to hold someone it really horrible.i had it a week ago it went on for few hours.Had to keep holding husband(who thought his luck was in ,in his dreams)It in layers as you said and leaves me exhausted