Venting Does anyone else feel a sudden disconnect from reality?

[Saponification]

Ocasionally, I get a sudden feeling of reality not being... well, real. I stop doing whatever I'm doing for a few seconds and as I look around me, "Wait, why the fuck does reality exist?"—I think. Shit starts to feel like some sort of fever dream.

It's especially strong when it "hits" me that I'm an ape on a rotating rock in the middle of space. My mind goes completely blank as I am reminded that my subjective experience is a result of chemical and physical processes that I don't and will never fully comprehend.

I just realized as I'm typing this that this is literally just called an existential crisis, lol. Anyhow, acknowledging the fact that I'll never know the answer to these questions is a big part of my constant existential anxiety.

 

[ijbolijbol8979]

I get it a lot too, I experienced it in my episode where I ultimately lost my friend group. I don't know how to deal with it so I try to let it pass or get my dog to ground myself. Why does it even happen in the first place?

 

[Pale_Rider]

What's going on in my mind feels more real sometimes.

 

[SmilingNoMore]

Yes, the unreality of this reality hits me more often than not these days. Someone dear to me has a saying, "few of us know how little we know, to know just how little we know". In the end, everything is nothing, while the same nothing is everything we have, if that even makes sense. And it's the simple things that count, if only things were simple.

 

[katara]

I've had this happen to me. It feels really creepy and uncomfortable. It's made me wonder if I was a mistake, or if this is a side effect of my bad health. When did it start for you? I've had it happen a few times and I assume it's because I can't handle the fact that my life is ruined.

 

[jenson]

Happens all the time to me. I figure its either a coping mechanism when I can't deal with my life or a refusal to believe that the current situation is happening whether good or bad.

 

[jpeq]

Happens to me a lot when I randomly (and only momentarily) snap out of dissociative fugue. I become way too aware of my surroundings and my own existence, always super off-putting

 

[bl33ding_heart]

Ocasionally, I get a sudden feeling of reality not being... well, real. I stop doing whatever I'm doing for a few seconds and as I look around me, "Wait, why the fuck does reality exist?"—I think. Shit starts to feel like some sort of fever dream.

It's especially strong when it "hits" me that I'm an ape on a rotating rock in the middle of space. My mind goes completely blank as I am reminded that my subjective experience is a result of chemical and physical processes that I don't and will never fully comprehend.

I just realized as I'm typing this that this is literally just called an existential crisis, lol. Anyhow, acknowledging the fact that I'll never know the answer to these questions is a big part of my constant existential anxiety.

I get something similar, it's like a weird surge of dread and feeling like my life is insignificant and doesn't truly matter.

 

[Saponification]

I've had this happen to me. It feels really creepy and uncomfortable. It's made me wonder if I was a mistake, or if this is a side effect of my bad health. When did it start for you? I've had it happen a few times and I assume it's because I can't handle the fact that my life is ruined.

It started since I became suicidal ig. I don't really remember when. For me it must be a side effect of my existential constant anxiety.

I get something similar, it's like a weird surge of dread and feeling like my life is insignificant and doesn't truly matter.

I see. Personally it's not that I realize I'm insignificant, rather it's that I become hyper-aware of my surroundings and my own existence and become anxious as I acknowledge that I'll never fully understand this universe I was dragged into.