"Coming to"/unconnected to extended periods of time

Hi all, So to get to the question: Anyone here also experience these sort of checkpoints on their life in which everything prior to it feels like it happened to someone else? There are memories of most of the events, but they all feel like it happened to someone else- they feel distant, emotionless, and foreign in a way that is tough to put into words. At the same time, I am still very dissociated (this is somewhat normal), but it feels like I'm foreign to everything around me. One of these experiences occurred today, after a weekend of dissociation and some shared time with a young part. Walking into my apartment today felt like I was doing it for the first time, but yet I still knew what to do. So odd. As far as I know, there have been about 4-6 of these "checkpoints", with time between them being multiple weeks to 5+ years.

Hi walden,

and yes we have experienced similar, it can be "weird"? Sorry it's early here and not long up. Hope I am making some sense?

- Purple Haze

Yes I feel I have had this when a friend from a specific period (for which the alter who was up front at the time had 'disappeared') talks about other people that were in our lives at that time and I've felt absolutely no connection to them what so ever and even her and her immediate family.

Other alters have had to step in so we appeared consistent throughout, as one of us has a deep rooted fear of being 'locked up' in a hospital for the mentally ill, as we've spent years not knowing what was wrong with us,but knowing there was something 'not quite right', not even explained by the autism diagnosis.