disconnect from my body

[smith2267]

I have a certain disconnect from my body...I get tired, or hungry, but I am not as aware of it as others seem to be.
Does anyone else experience this?
In a similar vein, I don't always know what mood I am in.

 

[Bay]

I have disassociated from my body under severe stress, but I think that this is not what you mean? It sounds as though you do not pick up on your body's physical cues?

 

[smith2267]

I have disassociated from my body under severe stress, but I think that this is not what you mean? It sounds as though you do not pick up on your body's physical cues?

Yes, I think that is an accurate description. It is as though I am an outside observer. Sometimes I am aware of hunger, tiredness, or pain, but not as intimately aware of it as others seem to be. For example, if you monitor my pulse, it will increase with a sudden loud noise. But I am not aware of any fear. After 48 hours without sleep, my thinking and reactions will be slow. But I don't always realize I need to go to bed.
So this is not partof my autism? It is something else?

 

[Cerulean]

I don't know what it is, but I've experienced that too.

 

[smith2267]

really cerulean? I once went without sleep so long that I lost motor control of my eyes, they just rolled around in my head.

 

[Nolan1971]

Does it come and go? When you feel connected again do you feel super sensitive?
In my case it is one of the many symptoms from my schizo-affective bi-polar. For me that disconnect lasts 2-4hrs almost daily.

 

[Undiagnosed]

I don't have that Smith. If anything I would be the opposite like overly sinsitive to being sleepy and not being ablt to function untill I get some sleep.

 

[csanon]

I've definitely had it in the past, particularly if I'm focused on an activity/obsession, etc. for a long period of time.

My suggestions are to begin meditating once/day (Google Jon Kabat-Zinn to get started), and to work on feelings. What I do is once each day I ask myself how I feel. It's hard at first, but with the help of some online vocab lists I've been able to identify my emotions much better after several months. Good luck!

 

[anthoskate]

Could it be this

Mono-processing
To avoid overload of sensory information, only one modality is processed
consciously by the brain (though subconsciously a great amount of infor-
mation may get in – ‘accumulation of unknown knowing’ – Williams
1994). The person might focus on one sense, for example, sight, and
might see every minute detail of the object. However, while his vision is
on, the person might lose awareness of any information coming through
other senses. Thus, while the person sees something, he does not hear
anything, and does not feel touch, etc. When the visual stimulus fades out,
the sound could be processed, but then the sound is the only information
the person is dealing with (i.e. disconnected from sight). As the person
focuses on only one modality at a time, the sound may be experienced
louder because it is all the person focuses on (hypersensitivity).
According to the number of senses working at a time the person can be
classified into ‘multi-track’ versus mono-processing (Williams 1996) or
‘being singly channelled’ (Lawson 1999). The ability to receive and
process information via multiple sources can also be referred to as
‘polytropism’, in contrast to ‘monotropism’ (using one channel at a time)
(Lawson 2001; Murray 1992).

Most people use their senses simultaneously. When they are hearing
something, they are still aware of what they see and feel emotionally and
physically, because they are ‘multi-tracked’. For people who work in mono
to process the meaning of what they are listening to while being touched
may be to have no idea where they were being touched or what they
thought or felt about it. To process the location or special significance of
being touched while someone is showing them something means that they
see nothing but meaningless colour and form and movement (Williams
1996).

I have Mono-processing. When I read something out loud I can't understand what I am saying.

Maybe what you have is Mono-processing with another sense.

 

[Judge]

When your metabolism is either voluntarily or involuntarily slowed down to a great extent it is potentially conducive to astral projection. An ability to deliberately separate your mind/spirit from your physical body.

 

[tlc]

Yes that happens to me sometimes, I get this feeling that my head is literally not attached to me.

Never heard of mono processing, but I definitely have experienced it. Like back before my daughter was in school and I'd drop her off at my grandmas and pick her up every day. So I'd have to drive 90 miles a day on bad winter roads, plus work, plus have to shovel the driveway and haul in wood and all that good stuff. On some of the really tired mornings, especially for the first few miles I felt exactly like I didn't have the brain power to do 2 functions at once. I couldn't power through a corner, I'd have to first slow down, then steer through it, then get back on the pedal. A plus is I was more careful than most out there and I never did have a crash or go in the ditch. That's long since over but now the tough part is working all day Friday then going the 350 miles and getting back at 1am good roads or 3am bad roads so I can spend some time with her before doing it all again Sunday. But I'm getting more used to that too. 11 years done, 5 more and counting down...