Temporarily Saw World in 2D

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I am self-diagnosed Asperger's with many friends, a teacher, and a pediatrician thinking the same
I go to a public school (unfortunately, it's torture b/c of sensory issues) and I was forced to play volleyball b/c of the curriculum set by the government.
I have really bad motor skills, so I just stand there and pass time watching everyone play.
Then, suddenly, I saw the world in 2D. A volleyball was coming straight at me and I couldn't tell how close it was to me so I froze there. Everyone started yelling at me and my vision went back to 3D.
Does anyone have an explanation for this? Anxiety? I have sensitivity to artificial light and used to suffer from depersonalization/derealization.

Thanks.

hiya Slushy9 welcome to our club I've had depth perception issues ["2D"] from time to time, as well, usually in moments of stress, as though my brain ran out of neural processing capacity/was overtaxed so the depth perception went out the window for a bit.

That has happened to me before. I can't parallel park to save my life, have had trouble with escalators, and I am the world's worst volleyball player. I almost fell on my butt at work last Friday trying to open a door. The door handle was further away than I thought.

I am nearly blind in one eye so seeing 2D is the only way I see. Makes things like driving very challenging.

I have vision in both eyes but cannot drive due to difficulties / slow rate of analysing what I see and making sense of it. I am also sensitive to visual stress, my mind can become exhausted and refuse to decode image altogether, positions/markers/lines can get jumbled etc..

All this in addition to narcolepsy which is triggered by certain things like car vibrations. And even high level of difficulty creating mental images of orientation/navigation.

I was gonna say that maybe the OP had one of eyes malfunction for a moment. Covering one eye puts everyone into a 2D world.

nope. i have 2 healthy eyes