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Offline Tupac

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Does anyone else feel like they are in a dream?
« on: December 06, 2010, 03:01:00 PM »
I feel like I'm in a dream sometimes, it's almost like I'm a bystander in my own life. Does anyone know what it is? Or did I just eat some bad food?

I've felt like this for awhile, but I don't really feel like I can tell anyone.
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Re: Does anyone else feel like they are in a dream?
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2010, 03:08:22 PM »
lay off the DXM... your not astral projecting, your just frying your liver.
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Re: Does anyone else feel like they are in a dream?
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2010, 03:09:32 PM »
The most important aspect is the fact that the experience is recent. Sudden onset of just about any symptom is important and often alerts one that something has significantly changed in one's brain chemistry.  Changes in Dopamine and Serotonin neurotransmitters can do this.  You may want to review your past few weeks — have you added/deleted medications?  Have you changed medications taken for nonpsychiatric issues such as pain, diabetes, etc.?

Sounds like an episode of dissociation/depersonalization, a hypnogogic experience, or some other condition.  

Or perhaps you just need to get a few successive nights of some good sleep...

I'm not a doctor, but I did play one on TV, once     :noid
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Re: Does anyone else feel like they are in a dream?
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2010, 03:10:21 PM »
You know how you can sit in a chair and lean back on two legs?  But then sometimes you lean back a little too far and you almost fall, but then you catch yourself just before you reach the tipping point and actually do fall.  Well, you know that second, after you lose your balance, while you're falling, but before you catch yourself?

I feel like that all the time.
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Re: Does anyone else feel like they are in a dream?
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2010, 03:15:20 PM »
Jokes aside, flu seasons is here, have you been taking any cold medications?

in the past 10 or so years DXM has been used instead of codeine as a cough suppressant, which in large doses does cause 'out of body experiences'. Some people react much stronger to it than others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextromethorphan

« Last Edit: December 06, 2010, 03:17:45 PM by Ardy123 »
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Re: Does anyone else feel like they are in a dream?
« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2010, 03:17:17 PM »
Hydrocodone pain meds, lortabs and the like, and muscle relaxers make me feel like that when taken in combination.  It might be time to see the doc today Tupac.
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Re: Does anyone else feel like they are in a dream?
« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2010, 03:22:14 PM »
I haven't taken any meds in awhile, and I don't feel like I can go to the doctor because I'm afraid I'll lose my medical.
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Re: Does anyone else feel like they are in a dream?
« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2010, 03:23:11 PM »
I haven't taken any meds in awhile, and I don't feel like I can go to the doctor because I'm afraid I'll lose my medical.

Might be better than your life or health man. 

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Re: Does anyone else feel like they are in a dream?
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2010, 03:28:15 PM »
It's not that I'm depressed or anything, its just a really odd feeling.
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Re: Does anyone else feel like they are in a dream?
« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2010, 03:28:25 PM »
I haven't taken any meds in awhile, and I don't feel like I can go to the doctor because I'm afraid I'll lose my medical.

lovely (insert sarcastic emoticon)

you pay us, you need us? we drop you... Yay for privatized medial coverage....

While I don't know your situation, this isn't the first time this has happened to people I know.
« Last Edit: December 06, 2010, 03:29:58 PM by Ardy123 »
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Re: Does anyone else feel like they are in a dream?
« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2010, 03:31:06 PM »
I haven't taken any meds in awhile, and I don't feel like I can go to the doctor because I'm afraid I'll lose my medical.

I forgot who was posting here.  You're just a young fella.

You meet a new woman recently, then?   :devil
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Re: Does anyone else feel like they are in a dream?
« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2010, 03:31:42 PM »
lovely (insert sarcastic emoticon)

you pay us, you need us? we drop you... Yay for privatized medial coverage....

While I don't know your situation, this isn't the first time this has happened to people I know.


Your assumption is different than mine.

I was thinking medical for PPL...       :noid
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Re: Does anyone else feel like they are in a dream?
« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2010, 03:36:40 PM »
I forgot who was posting here.  You're just a young fella.

You meet a new woman recently, then?   :devil

Actually I did

I was talking about medical for PPL
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Re: Does anyone else feel like they are in a dream?
« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2010, 03:38:39 PM »
check blood sugar
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Re: Does anyone else feel like they are in a dream?
« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2010, 03:43:05 PM »
Its called "dejavu" youngen  :aok
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