Does life feel real to you?

[Kramer]

I was in the passenger seat of a car yesterday for the first time in awhile. I was able to look outside and watch the houses and scenery pass before me like a roll of film. I then thought that life is like a lucid dream. It’ll end and it doesn’t really matter. The problem is becoming attached to the dream.

 

[Desdemona]

No it doesn’t. Simply because I have chronic pain despite being relatively young. I also have VSS and derealization is one of the supposed symptoms. I think life doesn’t feel real to me anymore because I’m not “living” but just existing. I don’t have many goals anymore

 

[Ghost2211]

Well the world as we know it is just a manifestation of how our brain perceives it, so in a sense everything is in our imagination.

 

[Sherri]

Used to, until this virus came, now it looks like a sci-fi movie.

 

[Kramer]

Used to, until this virus came, now it looks like a sci-fi movie

What do you think will happen after the vaccine is released?

 

[WornOutLife]

No, it doesn't! I feel like I'm really in a simulation! (I hope I'm not some random and useless NPC because everything would be indicating that lol)
I mean, I've had situation in which I was really happy and sad but it was as if it didn't feel real. It was as if there was something else but I'm not programmed to understand it.

 

[Gromit-CTB]

Nope.

 

[MrBlue]

I've never really had one. Life is a spectator sport to me, I just watch others in it like a superhero movie knowing I won't ever be able to do the stuff on the other side of the screen.

 

[stygal]

I actually always felt more comfortable living life as passenger instead of sitting in the driving seat.
Irl I rather watch conversations happen instead of talking myself.
I don’t like making decisions or being put on the spotlight.
Thats why life (most of the time) seems like a movie or something I just observe from the outside to me.

 

[Antigonish]

Nothing feels real, anymore...

 

[Coffeandamug]

I think understand the meaning of "real" you are trying to convey. But I'm not fond of this usage of the word. It kind of invalidades the "realness" in the experiences of depressed people, NEETs (like myself), and usually social outsiders. But the suffering is very real, the emptyness, the looking at my ceiling crying out to any hipothetical being out there to have mercy on me and take my life. The lack... oh the lack... the lack of meaning, of affection, of purpose, of the will to do anything....The lack is excruciatingly real. This fucking hell feels deeply real to me, all the time. Though I could say I am not so real for the rest of the world for being kind of a loner. In fact I wish all of this could feel less real. But I guess even the impression of the unrealness would also feel very real. Being alive in my life sucks I guess.

 

[Lotus]

No, I feel like a bystander. I feel stuck, and it feels like I’m just watching the days go by without me being a part of it. It’s a very uncomfortable situation to be in.

 

[DeathBySuicide]

I feel like there's a veil separating me from the world, and that I'm never fully part of the world. I feel like a person watching a movie, or a ghost. I always feel detached from the world. I believe it's a symptom of depression.

 

[lonerclown666]

My life was always a nightmare

 

[Mentalmick]

I'm forever staring into space wondering what the hell I'm doing here.

 

[Breadbfra]

I'm constantly asking myself if there's a real world outside. I sometimes think that with the pandemic everything looks dystopian

 

[rikakim]

Nope, nothing has felt real to me in a long time.

 

[flagmaster]

This is as real as it gets.

What bugs me is how insignificant our 'real' actually is in comparison to what lies beyond our microscopic speck in the great and magnificent universe. People get so caught up in their own lives that they forget that whatever they achieve accounts for nothing. I find it astonishing but fair play, whatever works for you I guess!

 

[LigottiFan19]

I've been waiting to "wake up" for so long. Years. Whatever "years" are.

 

[esse_est_percipi]

What bugs me is how insignificant our 'real' actually is in comparison to what lies beyond our microscopic speck in the great and magnificent universe

Our solar system is about 36 billion times larger than the earth (3.6 x 10^10), and the observable universe could be made up of about a trillion trillion solar systems (10^24).
To give an idea of proportions, if you could shrink the solar system to be able to fit into your hand, then the milky way galaxy would span north america, and the known universe would span the solar system.



Our galaxy (with 100 billion planets) is one of the small dots.

 

[Sensei]

I sometimes get the feeling that I'm the subject of some experiment. Maybe it's wishful thinking, because if it would be an experiment it would be possible to change the parameters or end the experiment.

 

[PapaSuicide]

I think he watched the movie Vanilla Sky, so don't jump out of the building!

 

[NightmareTour]

No it doesn’t. Simply because I have chronic pain despite being relatively young. I also have VSS and derealization is one of the supposed symptoms. I think life doesn’t feel real to me anymore because I’m not “living” but just existing. I don’t have many goals anymore

100% relatable. Its a shame doctors don't seem to see or understand this part.

 

[Nymph]

No, lately I’ve been feeling as if my real body is in a coma and everything that’s happening is just a dream or some kind of illusion. That everything is just happening in my head and it’s not real. But even tho it might not be real it’s still hard being “alive” and surviving.

 

[http-410]

Seems like you experienced some form of dissociation, OP?

Due to constant DP/DR life and everything it contains or I'm able to see feels like a dream. Me too. It feels like my brain is defunct.