How do you experience dissociation?

I experience it mainly as the world not being real. On days when it's bad, the world feels not just unreal, but like everything has been replaced with a more menacing copy of itself. I wondered how other people with BPD experience dissociation.

interesting description. i shut down in stressful situations, and tend to float through them like they're not even happening. i will ignore a situation to death if i can get away with it, and i know it's not healthy. nobody seems real. not their feelings, not their reactions... almost like they're actors and will stop being so pissy when the camera stops rolling or something. its like i can't wake up and sometimes its really frustrating... even scary!

what really makes me beat myself up is the fact that someone can make me very, very upset, but the next day i will address them as if nothing happened. like it's okay or something when it's NOT. i can't seem to bring myself to acknowledge the reality of it. makes me angry.

so then i go play videogames or something. fantasy problems are far more interesting, and usually have some kind of resolution. ugh. dissociation is a real burden...

Hi, Ive just been diagnosed with BPD a week ago, I have experienced dissociation in a couple of different ways, mainly its like I get pulled into my head and im watching myself do things (Crazy things usually) and I can see myself doing these things but i have no control over what im doing (feels like im possessed), other times I have no memory of what ive done, a few weeks ago I had some drinks with my friend and woke up in hospital covered in cuts and bruises, feeling very unwell, turns out I overdosed and smashed all the windows out of my front door, I still have no memory of this happening, it took this happening before my doctor finally listened to me and got me some help (I had been telling her I had something more than depression for over 10 years)

Stacey.