Lately I’ve been trying to put into words something I’ve been feeling, and I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced it. The closest way I can describe it is that it feels like I’ve been living in a really long dream. I know I’m awake. I know everything around me is real, but sometimes it feels like my mind hasn’t completely caught up. Moments don’t always feel as vivid as they used to. Sometimes time feels like it’s moving incredibly slowly, yet somehow weeks have already passed. Other times I’ll look back on something that happened and it almost doesn’t feel like it was real, like it happened to someone else.

It’s such a strange feeling because I’m living my life, going places, talking to people, and doing everything I’m supposed to do… but there’s this lingering sense that I haven’t fully “woken up.” I’ve been wondering if grief, stress, or everything that’s happened over the last several months has something to do with it. I don’t know.

I’m curious if anyone else has ever experienced something like this. If you have, what did it feel like for you? Did it eventually go away?