Trance symptoms while fully awake.

[SiriusTraveler]

Im sure at least some of you are familiar with very intense trance-sensations, like dislocated limbs or feeling small in a very large space.
Yesterday while fully awake, talking and arguing with my girldfriend in the bedroom when our lights were of (mind you it gets very dark) I got very heavy sensations of that the room was very large and that I was very small, coupled with sinking and falling sensations and also that some bodyparts were larger or heavier than they are in reality.
All these are sensations I have gotten in trance before but my question is how I can get them while fully awake arguing with my girlfriend? Have anyone else experienced this in full waking consciousnes?
It is like beeing in trance even though your fully awake.

[IA56]

Yes I have several time since I was a child, now it is very long time ago, but it is very crazy feeling, talking here and now, and seeing scenarios of some event that has nothing to do with the now, and feeling like you are floating abow the whole thing still small in one part that part who is conversating with some family member....

[SiriusTraveler]

Interesting. For me it felt as if my girlfriend was close yet very far away, like 20 meters or so. Like the physical distance was one thing, and emotional or some else distance was another.

[sono2]

I have also experienced this often - btw I have a friend who is proud to have been diagnosed as schizophrenic, who remarks often that he feels very small/large, or that his FEET feel very big/small.. . .odd!

[SiriusTraveler]

Well I have felt that numerous times in my life. Especially the feeling that limbs or body parts is out of proportion to the rest of the body and/or that they are very heavy. This has almost exclusively happened when going to bed at night which, to me, means that its trance symptoms.

[ButterflyWoman]

how I can get them while fully awake arguing with my girlfriend?
Rudimentary splitting of consciousness. I do this all the time. I can carry on entirely mundane things (including conversations) while experiencing various metaphysical-type things, all simultaneously. I've had what you describe and even weirder states.

[SiriusTraveler]

Is this a result of spiritual progress or by developing the energy body or something else you think?

[ButterflyWoman]

I've been dissociative all my life. It was a habit I developed to help me cope with the dysfunctional world in which I lived. I could be there and be somewhere else at the same time. Dissociation is a very useful thing to do, and it can be learned.

[SiriusTraveler]

Does it help you undestand certain situations in another way than normal?
I was thinking of that when I was arguing with my girlfriend I felt her beeing very far away, and the thought I got was that the distance was very large between us emotionally or spiritually or something like that. Like our energy was separated, or different energies. It makes me think that beeing in this state can help understanding certain things.
Perhaps I was trying to cope with the situation as you describe it?

[ButterflyWoman]

Does it help you undestand certain situations in another way than normal?
I don't know. What's normal? I have no idea how anyone else sees or experiences any situation, so I have no way to know. I do know that being able to be "not present" (because, in my mind, I was simply somewhere else) was and still is useful, though I don't use it the way I once did. I still split consciousness easily, but not to escape anything. Now it's like having multiple windows open in an operating system, and I can view two or more simultaneously, though I do usually have one "in focus" (but I can flip between them).


I was thinking of that when I was arguing with my girlfriend I felt her beeing very far away, and the thought I got was that the distance was very large between us emotionally or spiritually or something like that. Like our energy was separated, or different energies. It makes me think that beeing in this state can help understanding certain things.
Perhaps I was trying to cope with the situation as you describe it?
Possibly. If you're not very good at certain kinds of conflicts or interactions, you might well resort to that kind of "going away" to better deal with it (heaven knows, it's how I dealt with my mother for years ;)).

[CFTraveler]

I do think that having a tumultuous childhood is kind of early training for developing this ability for compartmentalizing, and helps you to be able to cope with various simultaneous situations while remaining functional. Then you can step it up to doing it without no one else noticing what you have going on.
:)

[SiriusTraveler]

It could be that when tired one might just want to escape difficult arguments and escape to somewhere else because there is no more energy left to argue. Then perhaps the symptoms could kick in.

[dreaming90]

I once retrieved a recently deceased car accident victim while having a conversation with my wife at the same time. It's weird, like there are two of you making two different sets of memories in two separate reality frames, but you experience both.

I also once had my Oversoul-Self pay a visit while I was on the toilet. :oops:

[SiriusTraveler]

So did you feel that you where in control of the both of you at the same time, or did it happen automatically?

[dreaming90]

So did you feel that you where in control of the both of you at the same time, or did it happen automatically?
I was in control of both of me, though I couldn't focus as much attention on the conversation with my wife as I could normally.