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unknown asked in HealthMental Health · 1 decade ago

Does anyone feel like life is all a dream? ?

For the past couple of months I've been in this sort of "dream" state and can't get out. When I look at me in general or people I ask. "how can I even be real?" Why is this? I also have been cutting for a year now.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Honestly, i agree. Lately, i have felt like maybe this life is all a dream and nothing is really real. But with all the chaos going on in the world, its confirmed that this is reality. I wish there were things i could change but those are beyond my controls. You probably feel this way because you've lost touch with what really is reality. I know the feeling. Its sorta like you go in a trance, start daydreaming and then start questioning if the things around you are real as they might appear to be.

    You said you've been cutting? I don't think self infliction of pain is wise. There are other methods to confirm reality. Just engage in activities both socially and physically activities to keep yourself busy. That should help. Hope i could've helped. :) Good Luck.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I feel the same way too!

    I live a life where it's just me inside a bubble. I've never been the type to be a social butterfly. I'm kind of too wrapped up in my own world, to notice anything or connect with anyone. The thing is I can be very shy ( and..ok, judgemental..but hey I'm not perfect)

    I don't know if your life is anything similar to mine, but I will speculate that maybe you're not much of a people person as well.

    I just think that since someone doesn't have much contact with friends or whatnot, probably spends most of their time seeing the world with their own eyes and not through any other person's eyes.

    I also suspect that depression may play a role in your state of mind. You think that you live in a dream world where you are disconnected from everything. You merely observe the world. there is not feeling or emotion or attachment to anything.

    If so, I feel that way too because these days there is not much at all that interests me. When you have no interest in anything, you're ability to care about anything kind of goes mute.

  • 1 decade ago

    Those people don't know what cutting is like. When you do it, you can't stop, I know the feeling, TRUST ME.

    I would try your best to stop, I looked on the brighter side of life, like, "**** I didn't get the cookies, whatever, they taste like crap, but these cupcakes look good that I got..." I don't know, stuff like that, ahahahah.

    And the dream thing? I feel like the same way. I feel like every life you live is a dream, like I am still in my first night's dream to live, but the dream last my whole life, in my dream, I dunno.

    And I think about it that way too. When I was seven, I cried cause I realized i'd have to die someday, and everyone does die for real. And spmetimes I'll just feel my Hands and be like, OK...WHAT THE HELL!!!

    Haha (:

    Yeah so just try and look on the brighter side of things. There's always a brighter side of everything!

  • Vio
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    The philosopher socrates, believed life was all a dream within a dream. Maybe life is just some sort of stimulation. We'll never know until we "wake up" or in a sense die. Maybe the mysteryes of life will be revealed then.

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  • 1 decade ago

    You may not be eating a healthy diet. proper nutrition is important for physical and mental health. If you have malabsorbtion disorder(undiagnosed celiac disease) you feel foggy minded. Do not cut yourself. Professional help is needed quick. Do you have a positive support group, church? I will praying that you find help.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yea if your cutting, your life is a dream alright, maybe more like a nightmare. You need psychiatric help!

  • 1 decade ago

    Cutting yourself to prove you're alive is wrong.You need to get help.

    I think it's depersonalization disorder.You need to escape from the world you hate,

    Also you may have depression.That may have started it all.You just do not care.

    take care

  • 1 decade ago

    Well you are real. You are a human being. The people around you are real.

  • dissed
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Stop cutting.

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