Hi...can anyone relate to this?

I just recently went away for a couple of weeks. I do know that I dissociated quite a bit during this time and my personality did alter somewhat.

Anyway since I came back home I have been getting extremely confused and not knowing where I am.

I have experienced that thing where I wake up in the morning thinking that I am in a bedroom I slept in about 35 years ago and this does happen to me quite regular but this is something far more extreme to that.

It's like I wake up and I do know where I am but I have no clue as to what might be on the other side of my bedroom door. All I need to do is to get to the bathroom but in my confused state I don't even know where the bathroom is and I just can't figure it out until I'm out of my room and in the corridor.

It is a really unsettling and uneasy feeling and I'm wondering if this is a common symptom of dissociation.

I'm gonna try and tell my T about it tomorrow but I'll be grateful if there is anyone else out there who might be able to share a similar experience and put my mind at rest.

Thank you in advance.

Happened to me too, when I am very dissociated and not grounded enough. Grounding exercises help me to come back in the here and now.

I don't know if it has happened to us to the same degree, but it happens. Most of the time it happens when there's a lot of stress going on in our life.

Thank you both.

It's nice to know I'm not the only one. I honestly was worried about this.

hi, i don't have that happen, but there is just always this sense where when i am out of it a bit, i don't really know what i will see, like if i try to picture my bedroom when I am not in it, I can, but it's hard. And so every room kind of is like, oh that's what that looks like, sometimes. other times things are better, but not always.

Hi!

This kind of experience is common enough to be present in most diagnosis tools for DID So it's very normal! Usually, it's describe with phrases like "sometimes, you can't recognize familiar places" or "you don't know where you are and how you get there".

I never had this to this extent, but I had moments where a part of me knew where we were, and another didn't have a single clue, which leaded to very confusing feelings.

Oh thank you so much for explaining that to me.

I can't tell you how much of a relief it is to know I'm not losing my mind.

I did actually explain it to my T about it today. He said the same as ArbreMonde about grounding techniques.