Dissociation 

Dissociating is one of the most common responses to abuse and trauma. It involves feeling numb, detached or unreal and (while it happens to everyone once in a while) is experienced more frequently and severely in survivors. Dissociating people vary widely in symptoms and may experience any or all things from the following list.

Types of dissociation:

Depersonalisation

Common: “I feel strange / weird”, “I felt as if I was floating away”, “I felt disembodied / disconnected / detached / far away from myself”, “apart from everything”, “in a place of my own / alone”, “like I was there but not there”, “I could see and hear everything but couldn’t respond”.

Derealisation

“My surroundings seem unreal / far away”, “i felt spaced out”, “it was like looking at the world through a veil or glass”, “i felt cut off or distant from the immediate surroundings”, “objects appeared diminished in size / flat / dream-like / cartoon like / artificial / unsolid”.

Other dissociative symptoms:

Memory: “I drove the car home / got dressed / had dinner but can’t remember anything about it”, “I don’t who I am or how I got here” (fugue state), “ I remember things but it doesn’t feel like it was me that was there”.

Identity: “I feel like I’m two seperate people/someone else”.

Other: “I felt like Time was passing incredibly slow/quickly”, “I get so absorbed in a fantasy/TV programme that it seems real”, “I felt an emptiness in my head as if I was not having any thoughts at all”.

You may experiencing dissociation if you:

-find yourself staring at one spot, not thinking anything
-feel completely numb
-feel like you’re not really in your body, like you’re watching yourself in a movie
-feel suddenly lightheaded or dizzy
- lost the plot of the show or conversation you were focused on
- feel as if you’re not quite real, like you’re in a dream
- feel like you’re floating

-suddenly feel like you’re not a part of the world around you
-feel detached and far away from other people, who may seem mechanical or unreal to you
-are very startled when someone/something gets your attention completely forget what you were thinking just a moment ago

-suddenly cover your face or react as if you’re about it be hurt for no reason
- can’t remember important information about yourself, like your age or where you live
-find yourself rocking back and forth
-become very focused on a small or trivial object or event
-find that voices, sounds or writing seem far away and you sometimes have trouble understanding them
-feel as if you’ve just experienced a flashback (perhaps rapidally) but you can’t remember anything about it
-perceive your body as foreign or not belonging to you

Dissociation by Coladasfae December 9, 2017

dissociation 

an crew of people formed to disrespect other people

S: "yo Q, wanna start a dissociation with G-Ha"?

Q: "naw, that bitch is whack...we don't wanna form a dissociation with her, we wanna form one against her"!

S: "for reals."

dissociation by ELS4LIFE December 4, 2009

Dissociation 

dissociation
/dɪˌsəʊʃɪˈeɪʃən,dɪˌsəʊsɪˈeɪʃn/
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noun
the action of disconnecting or separating or the state of being disconnected.
"we in the West honour a long-standing dissociation between church and state"
Similar:
separation
disconnection
detachment
severance
divorce
uncoupling
split
setting apart
segregation
distinction
division
isolation
alienation
distancing
sundering
disseverment
Opposite:
association
union
CHEMISTRY
the splitting of a molecule into smaller molecules, atoms, or ions, especially by a reversible process.
PSYCHIATRY
separation of some aspects of mental functioning from conscious awareness, leading to a degree of mental dysfunction or to mental conditions including dissociative identity disorder.
plural noun: dissociations
"the dissociations that one can observe in neuropsychological patients"

"we in the West honour a long-standing dissociation between church and state"
"the dissociations that one can observe in neuropsychological patients"

Dissociation by lerne hao two cspel July 8, 2023

Weed Dissociation

If you're sober and you feel any of the following :

- Feels like everything is a movie
- Feels like you are watching everything happen

- Feels like something is missing in your thoughts
- Feeling very worried

- Feels like your eyes are sensitive to light

- Feels like you see purple of images of lights, like when you look at the sun for too long

You smoked too much, you have to lay off for a few days, you are dissociating. If you are stoned and you feel these, that is normal. The dissociation effect is just the head effects of weed staying with you, but that feel good sensation is gone. That's why you have the symptoms of being high, even thought you aren't high. So you're good. Think of it like you smoked a lot and you're just still high. Sleep it off and in a few days, you'll be set. Drink lots of water.

DO NOT SMOKE WHILE THESE EFFECTS LINGER, THEY WILL ONLY WORSEN.

Chad: Dude, I heard that Josh got Weed Dissociation after smoking his entire stash. Now he's gonna lay off for a week.

Brad: That is actually wild, bro.

Weed Dissociation by RogerNihlock April 26, 2019

anocubital dissociation 

Fancy way of saying that someone’s arse (ass) is not connected to their elbow - derived from the saying that some idiotic person “can’t tell his arse from his elbow”.

Tom’s really stupid! Yeah I know - he has anocubital dissociation.

anocubital dissociation by The Fat Welshman February 8, 2021

Unconscious Dissociation Theory

The theory that the mind can split itself, creating separate streams of consciousness that operate in parallel without mutual awareness. Dissociation isn't just trauma pathology—it's a fundamental capacity of mind, visible in everyday absorption, highway hypnosis, and the way you can drive home with no memory of the journey. Unconscious Dissociation Theory studies these splits: how they happen, what they enable, when they become problematic, and what they reveal about the non-unity of consciousness.

Unconscious Dissociation Theory "You've been driving for twenty minutes with no memory of the road. Unconscious Dissociation Theory: part of you was driving perfectly well while another part was planning dinner. Your mind isn't one thing—it's many, and they don't always introduce themselves."

Unconscious Dissociation Theory by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026

Collective Dissociation Theory

A theoretical framework proposing that entire societies, communities, or social groups can experience dissociative states analogous to individual psychological dissociation—a splitting off from awareness of traumatic realities, contradictions, or collective actions that would otherwise be unbearable to acknowledge. Collective dissociation occurs when a group systematically disconnects from knowledge of its own violence, its historical crimes, its ongoing harms, or its internal contradictions. The theory draws on concepts from trauma psychology (dissociation as a response to overwhelming experience) and applies them at the social level: societies create collective amnesia, construct comforting narratives that omit uncomfortable truths, and maintain a fragmented awareness that allows them to function without confronting what they've done or what they're doing. Collective dissociation explains how people can live normal lives while their society commits atrocities, how nations can celebrate founding myths that erase genocide, how communities can ignore the suffering on which their comfort depends. The theory doesn't claim that societies have minds, but that social processes produce effects analogous to individual dissociation—a collective splitting that protects the group from unbearable knowledge.

Example: "The nation celebrated its founding while pretending the displacement of indigenous peoples never happened—Collective Dissociation Theory explains how entire societies can live with contradictions that would shatter individuals. The truth was there, but it was also not there, split off into a collective unconscious."

Collective Dissociation Theory by Dumu The Void March 19, 2026