My DR gets triggered by coincidences

eddy1886 said:

Yup can TOTALLY identify with you KittyCulprit...

Coincidences and also De ja Vu not only used to trigger my anxiety and DP levels but also seemed to occur more often with DP too...

In fact it would lead into alot of existential questioning in my head and make me think I had some kind of special insight into things...Of course being a rigid anxiety fuelled scientifically minded person this literally scared the crap out of me every time it occured (Im psychotic, going crazy, special etc etc)....The result was more fear and fuel for the DP to feed off...

Its all part of the hyper aware state that goes hand in hand with DP...Ya gotta remember every sense and nerve in your body is currently in hyper aware alert mode alerting you of danger so as a result your thinking can also be in hyper exaggerrated alert mode...This is why everybody who goes through DP always says they feel detached...Technically DP is like a 24/7 state of (post accident/trauma) Shock for want of a better term...You will often hear people who have been in car accidents or who have had their life threatened in a serious way that they went into a state of almost feeling like everything went into slow motion or just wasnt happening...This is exactly the type of thing thats happening with DP except for us its constant and more intense and much more frightening...

Over time this type of mental hyper awareness to things like coincidences and de ja vu etc eases off....Its harmless...Disturbing for sure but NOT DANGEROUS...Just like many of the other crazy DP symptoms...Usually DP symptoms are starnge and alien to our normal self which in turn makes them scarey and so disturbing....Fact is EVERY crazy DP symptom we experience is harmless!!!!! We just take them and run with them because of the obsessive types we usually are...

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Phantasm said:

Hi, this made me think of something I'd heard about recently called the frequency Illusion. Maybe it will help to know that it is a thing:

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/baader-meinhof-phenomenon.htm

Your description of how you felt and your perception shifting strangely sounds familiar. People do speak of such experiences, more often as deja vu. This sounds like an anxiety attack as you said, as they are usually preceded by unsettling thoughts and a build of stress and worry in general.

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