Anyone else feel this way looking in a mirror?

[Laststop]

Anyone else study themselves in the mirror, and feel like that's not you?

 

[21Neberg]

Anyone else study themselves in the mirror, and feel like that's not you?

God I thought I was the only one. When I look in the mirror I on one hand feel disgusted with what I see, but on the other hand I feel like I see a stranger and I feel like I have no clue what's going on inside his head.

 

[cryptic_cynic]

Yes. I'm like, "who the fuck is that?!"

I'm so detached from my physical manifestation, it's not even funny.

 

[Tragoedia Vitae]

Yes, when I look at the mirror, I ask myself, "Is that really me?" I don't feel real sometimes—my life feels dreamlike. It's like I'm trapped in this sad, bewildering, and ultimately terrible dream with no possibility of ever awakening. Yet this dream—this interminable nightmare—is all too unbelievably real.

But at the same time, I can't help but believe I have no place whatsoever in this bleakly strange existence—it's got nothing to do with me. I don't belong. Everything I see in the mirror disgusts me. It's all so unhappily alien.

 

[ThriveOrDie]

Anyone else study themselves in the mirror, and feel like that's not you?

Yep

 

[Soulless_Angel]

I hate what I see, I know its me, but differnet mirrors make me look different so I do question it sometimes

 

[Tabbyql]

God I thought I was the only one. When I look in the mirror I on one hand feel disgusted with what I see, but on the other hand I feel like I see a stranger and I feel like I have no clue what's going on inside his head.

I'm exactly the same

 

[262653]

Anyone else study themselves in the mirror, and feel like that's not you?

We are certainly linked somehow, pain, thirst, sexual arousal, but is that what makes this bag of bones and meat any more me or part of me than anyone's else?
Yeah, it's very dreamlike. Is that what dissociation is all about? Not associating myself from certain things and concepts? I can write whatever I want, yay. Why are we have to be dissociative? Why THEY can't be associative? Why THEY can't be called associative insted, because they associate with things that aren't them? Who gets to decide who is you and who isn't you? It all depends on where you stand.

*But damn its so pleasant to think this way. This pain isn't mine --> I can freely cut myself with a smooth blade, not just serrated blade. It feels liberating. No need to worry about self image too. I can actually live like that! More freedom for spontaneous action. Very much like a dream, but I can see my nose. Have you ever tried too observe your own nose in a dream?

 

[joshe]

When you look at your reflection and it don't look like you..

 

[Ko9]

No, just scared of what I became and disgusted by it.

 

[Laststop]

I so relate to all these reactions!

 

[Taki]

All the time. It's unnerving.

 

[Numbtopain97]

This happens to me all the time