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Other dissociative indicators are as follows (usually defined in % of time occurs)

+Driving a car and suddenly realize you don't remember what has happened during all or part of the trip
+Listening to someone talk and realize did not hear part/all of what was just said
+Find themselves in a place and have no idea how they got there
+Experience feeling as though standing next to themselves and watching themselves do something
+Have no memory for some important events in their lives eg. wedding, graduation
+Experience feeling that their body does not seem to belong to them
+Experience of sometimes remembering a past event so vividly that they feel as if they are reliving it
+Experience of not sure whether things that they remember happening really did happen or a dream
+Experience of being in a familiar place but finding it strange and unfamiliar
+When watching TV or movie they become so absorbed they are unaware of the events happening near them
+Become so involved in a fantasy or daydream it feels as though it is really happening
+Find that they are sometimes able to ignore pain
+Sometimes sit staring off into space, thinking nothing and not aware of the passage of time
+May act so differently from situation to situation they feel as if they were two different people
+Sometimes can't remember whether have done something or just thought about doing that thing
+Feel as if looking at the world through a fog so that people and objects appear far away or unclear

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The symptoms of Dissociation are many and varied. They include the following:

-feel as if you are a "witness" of what is happening to your body
-feel as if you are falling into a void
-feel as if you are "outside of your body" either situated alongside, above or behind it
-feel as if you are floating
-feel as if you and your surroundings do not seem real
-you experience a visual sensation where stationary objects appear to move
-experience your surroundings through a diffused light, fog or mist. . . .
-experience your whole body enveloped in light
-feel as if your body is expanded so that it feels huge/larger than normal
-feel as if your body has shrunk to minute proportions/ smaller than normal
-feel as if your body is being pressed to the ground
-sensitivity to light and sound
-tunnel vision
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