When I drive its like I can do it, but everything is spacey and it feels like driving high or something. I can't stand it. What is your experience?

 

Ive never really had any issues while driving with DP. Yeah it feels like you're driving high but then again everything you do feels like you're high! It's like the spaced out feeling without the euphoria, doesn't give me any motor problems though.

 

I think I just trip myself out about it. I have anxiety as well so I am always worried I will have a panic attack or something.

 

Familiar routes are ok. Anything new or any sort of detour is really annoying. I have some level of HPPD and meds I think are making it worse. Light sensitivity etc.. I just got back from driving at night. Its not fun. I keep spacing out which is not good.

Driving is difficult now, which is funny cause in every group of friends i've had i've always been the guy who drives. long distance trips and everything.

 

Driving car is almost unbearable during bad dp/dr.

 

I work at a car dealership and drive a lot of cars around the lot. I have to be extremely cautious while I am experiencing DP/DR and driving because I feel like my reaction time is slightly delayed so I have to give myself an extra second to make a decision while driving or doing things in general.
I have definitely noticed a difference in my driving habits since experiencing these symptoms.

 

Same here. It also makes me more spacey to focus on the road which can lead to panic sometimes :/

 

I think because driving is largely done unconsciously then it tends not to interfere with my driving. Yes the perspective is warped and things can occasionally be a little confusing but mostly I think it is fine.

 

Yea, I agree. At first I voted that it does effect my driving but I realized that it just FEELS like it should but I drive the complete same. Actually its my robot self driving, my mind is sitting in the passenger seat.

Btw, I haven't seen your avatar since I was 14 and that made me thoroughly happy.

 

Weirdly enough, I'm a better driver because of DP...It's probably because I know that I have to be careful while driving and focus on the road.

 

Yeah I drive fine for the most part. I mean I feel weird like if I crashed or threw the car off the road, it wouldn't matter and nothing would really happen, but I know I'm not crazy enough to try that shit so it's ok.

I do find my concentration lapses and I do stupid stuff occassionally, but I'm a good driver so generally I'm fine.

 

Generally, driving is 2nd nature for me. Both my college and job have required lots of extra driving over the past few years and I generally have very little to no anxiety whatsoever with it. Once in awhile the DP kicks in while I'm driving, but it has never caused any problems. The worst I had it was driving while bomb stoned in a massive trip, however I still - shockingly, had no problems actually occur outside of the panic of the sensation alone. My body was in auto-pilot as I knew the directions very very well. My dp began way before I ever tried green - and the few times I have tried it only led to either no real noticeable effects and 2 massive trips of paranoia through the roof. Driving naturally can induce a sense of DP in people without DP after very long periods of constant driving on a long stretch of road. Road fatigue for one does sometimes include symptoms of a more natural sense of DP for people that goes away when they finally take a break (sometimes even requiring rest.) So I'm sure some people who have a DP/DR disorder may experience these sensations more often when driving is involved.

 

Driving at night on dark roads can be a bit sketchy...I have reduced the speed at which i used to drive since getting DP because my reaction times arent as good...Generally since getting DP i have had to be more careful while driving as my concentration is not as good as it used to be....

 

Driving is autopilot, like riding a bike at this point for me.

 

Years ago I attempted to get a driver's license while I was still able to function at a moderate level, but the mask to get through the motions was simply too thin and mental dysfunction too extreme for me to be able to even get past the written test. I would have never felt safe on the road anyway, I already felt dangerous enough riding a bike and these days I cannot even manage to ride a bicycle without being on the verge of crashing into things or simply falling down from the excess stimuli and effort involved.

 

Well, im not sure that I can't drive, but I definitely shouldn't, seeing as I feel drunk and stoned and confused.

 

If I hadn't learned to drive just before having the seizures that gave me dp/dr, I don't think I would have learned how to drive for many years.

Tunnels caused extreme anxiety because they mimicked the hallucinations I experienced in conjunction with the epileptic discharges.

(I grew up in a burg with lots of long and winding tunnels.) Also, it can be difficult managing a focal temporal lobe seizure while driving.