Saturday, November 18, 2017

Detachment and Distancing



From my earliest memories until well into my forties I had moments of very marked detachment from my surroundings. Sometimes when I was tired I would find that the room in which I sat and the people with whom I was talking were receding, and as I got farther away it was as if I were watching them in a movie.  I had a certain amount of control in that I could allow this distancing to continue or I could choose to reenter the situation by speaking or otherwise focusing my attention so that I was projected back inward and arrived among them with a thump.

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