The difference between Schizophrenia and OCD? I also have DP

What is the difference between schizophrenia and DP? I'll tell you a symptom I have and you might think otherwise. I have this symptom to where I will random either smell or see something from my past and my mind will shoot me into that particular memory again. It's like I relive it. No I'm not hallucinating but I feel there. The emotions. The vibes. The feelings I had then. It's like the step before hallucinating. Sometimes it's not even a memory but just something complete random, I will feel in another place. Another time. Watching a movie and feeling the vibes from it and thinking I'm in the movie. Like truly feeling the environment almost changes, my environment. I'm still here but not at all. The best way to describe it, is the feeling right before you fall asleep and your still slightly conscious but you start dreaming and drifting into a dream. That is what is happening to me but wide away in the middle of the day. I do not think that is Depersonalization, it must be something worse...
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If you have OCD tendencies, esp. if you've ever been Dx'd with it, I think OCD is messing with a wonderful ability to get lost in something momentarily. Personally, I value the moments I get completely lost in a song/smell/feeling and am transported in the way you describe, to a moment in my past. It's like I know I'm in 2016 but it's almost something palpable, isn't it? The sensation of being in that moment of time. Those happen all too rarely, and even more rare when I'm fully awake, and if I could generate it at will, I would do so. I also sometimes get a hint of it with fictional/other narrative things, like you say with movies. But that's even more rare. Still, it happens. I don't think there's anything particularly bad about being able to do that; especially with the personal memories of being in a particular place and time. I enjoy the sensation very much, usually. It's never even occurred to me to associate it with a mental illness, tbh. Not something that's on my anxiety radar at all. If it interfered with normal living, then maybe there's a problem. But if not, I personally wouldn't worry about it.

No it doesnt interfere with my personal life, just causes anxiety because it feels unnatural. or maybe my ocd is making me over think it idk