[Ece9]

Three weeks ago I started to feel a disturbing noise in my head and something like visual snow and it hasn't stopped at all. It's more intense when I wake up, then I somehow ignore it but it gets worse as the day goes by. Also there's a shaky feeling but not that normal shaking it's more like I'm drowning in my bed. I've had dp for so long and somehow managed to calm myself down but this new symptoms are unbearable. Does anyone happen to feel this way?

 

[Trith]

I don't know if it's similar, but sometimes I have a feeling like distances get ridiculously small, when I'm in bed I feel like my room is as small as a coffin (someone once told me how this was called by I don't remember). Or I have a strong and hard to describe feeling like "space becomes very intense around me", and perhaps all distances grow larger and larger and become infinite, and it feels a little like I don't know where up and down are, and I also feel like a kind of sensation of roughness through my body and mostly through my fingertips and somtimes my hands. I started having this for the first time as a kid around 10 years old or younger, mostly in bed, and it was associated with a very strong fear of death, or worse, a coming apocalypse. I started to get used to the feeling when it came back once in a while, and it slowly got disassociated from fear, and now it's just a weird neutral and intresting feeling that stays there for some seconds and goes away.
I don't know if other people have the same feeling but personally I don't care very much, as long as this thing is fleeting, and so far it has been for the last 28 years. Like a Swiss watch.

 

[Ece9]

I don't know if it's similar, but sometimes I have a feeling like distances get ridiculously small, when I'm in bed I feel like my room is as small as a coffin (someone once told me how this was called by I don't remember). Or I have a strong and hard to describe feeling like "space becomes very intense around me", and perhaps all distances grow larger and larger and become infinite, and it feels a little like I don't know where up and down are, and I also feel like a kind of sensation of roughness through my body and mostly through my fingertips and somtimes my hands. I started having this for the first time as a kid around 10 years old or younger, mostly in bed, and it was associated with a very strong fear of death, or worse, a coming apocalypse. I started to get used to the feeling when it came back once in a while, and it slowly got disassociated from fear, and now it's just a weird neutral and intresting feeling that stays there for some seconds and goes away.
I don't know if other people have the same feeling but personally I don't care very much, as long as this thing is fleeting, and so far it has been for the last 28 years. Like a Swiss watch.

I relate to the body sensations and fear, I think that I have experienced something similar and it always led to a panic attack. Also I sometimes have bizarre fears about how big the world is, if that's is related to what you described. It's interesting how everyone experience dp/dr differently. In my case it's about both (existential) thoughts and physical sensations. Sometimes I feel very tired even when I haven't done anything. Anyways, thanks for your response!

 

[Trith]

I relate to the body sensations and fear, I think that I have experienced something similar and it always led to a panic attack. Also I sometimes have bizarre fears about how big the world is, if that's is related to what you described. It's interesting how everyone experience dp/dr differently. In my case it's about both (existential) thoughts and physical sensations. Sometimes I feel very tired even when I haven't done anything. Anyways, thanks for your response!

Yes, that's interesting. I have heard this thing about perception of distances in different places. But in my case those sensations were not directly correlated with DPDR. I started having these sensations occasionally around 10 years old and the frequency of their occurences kept decreasing over the years, but I started to have feelings of unreality and change in identity only around 15 - 16 years old, and it got worse for about 6 years. So for me the two symptoms did not feel like they were related. But maybe both these symptoms and DPDR could be anxiety related, and so it wouldn't be suprizing to often find them together (?).