Snapping out of 'dream like' sensation

[Clownsarescary]

I'm feeling really weird. Has anyone had experience of these feelings?

It's like I keep snapping out of a dream, or engrossed in a book, and then for a second I can remember what I was thinking/dreaming/readiing but then the dream fades away and I feel dizzy and strange. A bit like a panic attack. I feel disorientated.

My relationship with dp is difficult, although I hope this can be overcome, and work is pretty stressy at the minute. Life is rather difficult to put it briefly. I'm not eating much.

It's such an odd sensation I've never experienced before. Is it panic attacks? It's the dreamlike sensation that's really strange. I've never experienced it before.

Thanks to anyone who answers.

Sounds like a stress/panic reaction. Do you feel as if you are detached from your surroundings and find familiar places look sort of strange? I remember feeling as if I was in some sort of parallel universe, where everything was the same but definitely didnt feel the same, if that makes sense. If youre not eating much, then your symptoms could be due to low blood sugar. Esp if you have any lightheadedness, dizziness, headaches. Its incredible the effects that stress can have on the body. Everything from pins and needles, numbness, weak-feelings in legs, backache, feeling faint to full blown panic attacks which can mimic the symptoms of a heart attack. If your appetite has gone as a result of stress and you feel as if you cant get much down, could you maybe sip on Build-Up or Complan shakes? You may feel less weird if you get some more nutrients into your system. Hope this helps.

I used to have panic attacks and a dreamlike sensation was definitely one of the main symptoms.

Feeling detached and spacey (also sick/heart racing/clammy) were the main things associated with panic attacks for me.

However, if you aren't eating, then would suggest you remedy that first in order to eliminate hunger.

Is it like you keep seeing and feeling snippets of dreams you've had, and if you try and focus/remember them properly you feel faint, or pass out?

tunaday, yes totally detached at times and then I snap out of it. I am lightheaded when I come out of it. I did actually think I was having a heart attack earlier . I've had a small bit of soup and bread for lunch today and a slice of cheese tonight, oh and a colleague bought me a Bounty in work today but I couldn't even finish it (not like me).

Thank you for your reply, its comforting, I honestly did think I might have a heart attack about an hour or so ago. I best get some food down me (ugh)!

Sorry Slightly and Umi I missed your posts. Yes, all of those sensations. Spot on. So is it lack of food combined with stress?

Thanks all.

When I get it, it is like false memories which completely freak me out. The only way I can "re-set" is to sleep. This ( for me) doesn't seem to be blood sugar or stress related, just happens at random times and has been serious enough for me to be hospitalised.

I also get what I refer to as Dizzyness, which is when "real life" feels like I am dreaming, this can be both blood sugar and stress related and I have had it since I was 6.

Clearly I have issues! But you are not alone OP.

Umi I'm sorry to hear this, do you know the cause?

You've described how I'm feeling rather well. I honestly was quite frightened a while ago.

Is it more the first one I described, or the second clowns?

Umi its more like the first one.

Sadly I have no idea what triggers the first :( Sometimes I think I should mention it to my GP but always chicken out. I have tried googling it but never had much luck. I think it must relate back to my depression and the fact that I have a lot of memories and emotions I have tried to ignore/repress over the years. Oddly though I was treated for PTSD so had to face up to many horrible truths but this didn't rear it's head for a good few years after.

Do you have any feelings or memories you try to repress? Could be a link. Sorry to hear you also have this, as I have never come across someone else who does and it is just miserable. Trying to explain it to DH or friends is impossible!

I get this and agree it can be related to not eating enough/drinking enough water? I find I'm better if I take a multi vit too.

Have any of you been on No More Panic? I used to go on it years ago and went on it again lately. It's good for support. Lots of info too.

It's mentioned here on NMP.

I've just had a slice of ham. There's a headache emerging now.

Umi yes plenty has happened in my life that I try and live with rather than suppress.

Right now is particularly difficult, ds doing gcse's, relationship stuff and work is heavy.

Curious I'll have a look at that site. I really don't want to take ad's.

Thanks both.

Carbs help you sleep, can you have a sandwich?

I've come off ads and have gone through a bereavement plus worries over ds2, my brother being seriously ill and other stress so am pretty happy that I'm coping without them. I hope you can too but do go to the GP if you feel you can't cope.

How are you feeling today? I felt a lot better once I realised the horrible symptoms I was experiencing were due to stress. I really thought there was something neurologically going wrong what with pins and needles, weakness and numbness. I had weird and wonderful things going on at the end of my marriage/Divorce, and it was a friend who when I told her how I felt, said it sounded like stress/panic. Its just incredible what the mind can do to the body. Glad you are eating a bit more. Would really recommend eating whatever you can face. Even if its c..... Stress can either put you right off all food or with some people they wolf everything down. Maybe try a Build-up shake or something similar if you can. You dont have to chew or force anything down that way but still get essential vitamins, protein, energy. Hope you have a better day today.

Curious thanks I will go to GP if things don't improve.

Tuna thanks, I haven't had any 'episode' so far today. I did sleep really oddly where you get that sensation of not knowing whether you're dreaming or sleeping . Do you know the one?

I'm on my lunch break at the minute and just about to go to the canteen to see what I can manage to eat. Soup or a jacket potato probably.

Thanks again everyone.

Yes I've had the weird sleep thing too. I hope you managed to eat ok?

I can remember being in a lab when I was at university working away at a computer. I can remember floating above my physical body, in a different place looking down at myself. people were around me, asking me whether I was OK, but my 'body' would not respond because I was above it looking down on the sensation.

I was suffering severely with depression at the time, to the point of suicide so often used to go into trances like this. 15 years later I still get depressed some days, but do my damdest to make sure it never gets that bad again.

Didn't realise it was a common thing.

Glad youre doing better today. Hope you got spud and/or soup down. I sometimes dont know whether Ive been awake or asleep at times. But I get that occasionally whether Im stressed or not. I think it really helps just knowing that what youre experiencing isnt just you and that others have had/have it. But would certainly go to GP if it doesnt start to improve. Ive not had any probs for about 4 years thankfully. It was definitely massive and ongoing stress that caused my discombobulation. Try keep eating as much as you can because that can only help. Let us know how its going. Hugs.

Hi everybody, thank you so much for listening, supporting and helping, which you all have.

I did have a spud with cheese 'n beans, I managed about half of it. :)

I've not had any further episodes today, but I'm not hopeful tbh because work was a nightmare and more to come. (not my incompetence or anything just pressure which I actually respond to really well in normal life). As I mentioned up thread, me and dp have 'issues' too which we are trying to work through and we have made a bit of progress tonight, not as much as I'd like but, nonetheless, some progress. Problems with ds' gcse's continue, call from his Eng Lit teacher at about 6pm tonight........ it goes on doesn't it. I know I'm not different, alone, or special. It's all just hurting.

Hope the above makes sense.

Thank you all.

If you have stresses around work, relationship, ds, at the moment, then I suppose more stress related symptoms wouldnt be surprising. But maybe just knowing why youre experiencing them, might, hopefully make them less alarming. Its just incredible how things can never seem to be problematic in just ONE area of life, and that they come along in flippin great clumps all at the same time. Like one, wouldnt be enough of a challenge on its own!

I found the time around dd's GCSEs /A levels, absolutely horrible. You know these exams are important, yet so many teens cant look more than 2 hours into the future and seem to think theyre doing YOU a favour by studying. I was so desperate I resorted to bribery, corruption and even a revision 'advent calendar' at one point! Add to all this, all the other stuff you have to deal with and it's not surprising that we feel discombobulated.

Hope you have another OK day - Rather than try to get a meal down, it might be worth trying just drip-feeding bits of anything you fancy throughout the day so you dont have to face a plateful that totally outfaces you.

Keep on keeping on. Hugs.

Hi Tuna, thanks for listening, yes there are too many stress areas at the minute. I slept ok last night but I had a couple of drinks while having a 'meeting' with dp. Stress at work today, I felt physically sick and I couldn't bear to attempt a spud today so I've just had a bowl of honeynut clusters at my desk for lunch . Better than nothing.

I forgot to say, I just love the word discombobulate