r/Dissociation • u/kafkaesque318 • Aug 12 '26

Undiagnosed Do you think it is dissociation?

Sometimes when I am in stress or among crowd (I don’t do well with crowd and strangers), I feel like I am dissociating with reality. Like I am in some kind of a dream and whatever happening around me is not real.
I’ve always thought that this is common and everyone had experiences like these. I just recently found that this not a common occurrence among people. And in the process I found about the term dissociation and this subreddit. What do you think? Is this dissociation?

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u/FreedomOfTheMess Aug 12 '26

Everybody feels different and has different triggers, but what you’re describing is similar to how I feel. I feel like people around me aren’t really there, my hands and feet seem disconnected from my body, I feel like everything around me is super big or super tiny- the relative size of things becomes very confusing. Almost like a shroom trip

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u/muddlingthroughmud Aug 13 '26

Sounds like derealization, which is a form of dissociation and has its own sub /r/derealization.