Anybody feel...you're living in a dream...?

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This is my attitude toward death. In dreams we become totally different people - different names, physical appearance and skin color. We temporarily free ourselves from the mortal hell we call panel earth.

I often felt that way when I was younger. I even described real life as being sorta like a painting to my therapist, and as though it was very far away. I never had motion sickness, but I did have the world go black for me once. Couldn't see anything for a few seconds.

As a child I was pretty convinced the real world was a dream I would wake up from at some point, and that real life would feel a lot more solid. Realized eventually that wasn't true.

I think I experience hyposensitivity and I think it's likely that for me at least, it's what caused the feeling. I block out sounds very easily, almost automatically. If I'm absorbed in my thoughts, I can easily completely forget there are things happening around me. When I come back from my thinking, the rest of the world feels a little dimmed. I'm not sure if that counts as actual derealization. At any rate, the feeling has faded away in the past couple years.

I used to call those moments 'brain warps', though it's usually also accompanied by a feeling of deja vu. Sometimes, I would slap myself in an attempt to 'wake up'. I don't get it so much anymore.