When, where, how, and why do you feel unreal in your identity and your life?

Question

Thanks to all who answer this question.

Answer 1

While it's partially unreality, it's more like being detached or being an observer more than being a real participant in physical life. Many times in the midst of a conversation or event my attention expands and wonders why is it that this particular event is taking place, what brought these people together, what should be accomplished, is there a higher force at work? When I'm with a dying patient I sense them leaving their physical body and I sort of commune with their essence to wish them all the best of the next step of their journey. When I look out my window I ponder on the significance of the elements, the various aspects of nature and how everything fits together. In many ways I often feel like that proverbial fly on the wall watching life take place and revelling in the glory of it all.

How about you? Do you sometimes feel unreal?

Answer 2

When I'm living for a passion I feel real.

I lost a 20 year passion for a high risk sport about three years ago. I was totally committed, I had no other life.

Now I feel like I'm living in a shadow world, like a purgatory. All I do is work and go thought the motions of a life, but I'm no longer really living. Just surviving, just making money isn't enough. This is how I felt before I discovered my passion.

Answer 3

I feel unreal when I'm under extreme stress. When everything changes too fast. Like when we move. You work to make things work where you are. You meet new people and make friends then suddenly you find that you have to move on again. Hate it. In fact, I tend to do this for hours when I'm under stress. It somehow helps to just sit here and find answers for other people. It makes me think less about having to go in to a totally new situation next term. Hate going in to a room full of people I don't know and being introduced to everybody like you're some kind of bizarre scientific specimen. Then you find out that you've dressed wrong and nobody speaks to you or makes you feel like you're OK...Horrible!

Answer 4

Your identity is not who you are, and therefor not real. Ego is the when, where, how, and why you feel unreal. Who you really are is your own essence, No name, Ego or identity... It just IS... :-)

Answer 5

I feel totally alien to everyone right now. I thought it was me to start with but Ive decided Im one (or two) of a kind. I dont know what to do, just accept it I suppose until I end up in some kind of asylum.