• LordAmplifier@pawb.socialEnglish
    10·
    21 days ago

    I always thought it was normal that I could make time pass super quickly by “turning my head off” and living in a fantasy world for a while, but I guess it’s not? I’ve lost a good chunk of that ability anyway, and long wait periods now annoy me.

    • ThefuzzyFurryComrade@pawb.socialOPEnglish
      5·
      21 days ago

      I always thought it was normal that I could make time pass super quickly by “turning my head off” and living in a fantasy world for a while, but I guess it’s not?

      I don’t think it is quite the same thing as is being depicted in the art, the fact they are calling it an “episode” implies that it is involuntary.

      I’ve lost a good chunk of that ability anyway, and long wait periods now annoy me.

      If you are anything like me then talking aloud really helps with this, whenever I need to wait for something I just mutter little stories to myself while pretending to be on the phone. That is if I am not already thinking about something else.

      • LordAmplifier@pawb.socialEnglish
        3·
        20 days ago

        That’s a good point, actually. Episode makes it sound like it’s a somewhat frequent, involuntary thing. Walking always helps me get into that “mood”, which is why I really struggle with conversations or just looking at the scenery when strolling through a park. I always get lost in random thoughts on casual walks.

    • ThefuzzyFurryComrade@pawb.socialOPEnglish
      8·
      22 days ago

      Dissociation is a concept which concerns a wide array of experiences, ranging from a mild emotional detachment from the immediate surroundings, to a more severe disconnection from physical and emotional experiences. The major characteristic of all dissociative phenomena involves a detachment from reality, rather than a false perception of reality as in psychosis.[1][2][3][4]

      More pathological dissociation involves dissociative disorders, including dissociative fugue and depersonalization derealization disorder with or without alterations in personal identity or sense of self. These alterations can include: a sense that self or the world is unreal or altered (depersonalization and derealization), a loss of memory (amnesia), forgetting identity or assuming a new self (fugue), and separate streams of consciousness, identity and self (dissociative identity disorder, formerly termed multiple personality disorder) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder.[24][25] Although some dissociative disruptions involve amnesia, other dissociative events do not.[26]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation_(psychology)

      The context implies that they are experiencing a very acute form of this.