Does anyone else do this?

[intothethickofitt]

I mentioned to a friend today and she looked at me like I was a freak, but really frequently I'll suddenly kind of zone out and think how I'm not only on a planet, but in a solar system in a universe and I'm absolutely tiny and everything means nothing and in my head I picture the actual size of it and suddenly feel really strange. Takes me a couple of minutes to bounce back from. This sort of feeling like I'm not really real and this is all just ridiculous?

She said that's disassociating, but really it's just putting things in perspective I guess? We are minuscule

Though perhaps she is right, I can't comprehend people recognising me. I just assume people won't even if they know me really well and surely would. I'm always surprised when people do? Is my brain broken?

sounds pretty normal to me

Yes I get this, I remember getting it during lessons at school or assemblies where I and to sit still and listen to someone talking. It's like my brain goes elsewhere for a while and everything around me feels odd and disconnected. I thought it was just daydreaming bit now I think it may be disassociation

*where I had to sit still

I get this regularly and have learned to shut it down a bit as it can get out of hand if it goes on (I feel like I've fallen out of myself ). It's at least the preliminary of dissociation - but not at all unusual. Seems odd that other people don't 'get it'!

Sort of
Sitting by the sea with an horizon and sky makes you feel small, on the flip side it makes your problems seem tiny in perspective
There are bigger things than you
Yet it's crazy you exist

I think these thoughts are healthy