Thinking this isn't reality. Any ideas? Help

[Vancouver]

So I recently talked to my friend and she talked about what's been going on and I have no idea if it could be a disorder, over-active chemical etc... She said:

"I keep thinking this isnt reality. Like i see or hear something and I think this isn't really happening, I must be dead or re-living my life in some kind of continuous circle."

"It makes me cry and feel sick, and I can't breathe."

"Like I'll have some happy memory and I think 'wow I must have thought of that cuz im going to die soon."

"It got really bad at one point where it would happen during the day randomly and I would just become completely unable to function
like in the middle of a show, or cooking or walking."

She doesn't like sleeping and nighttime because that's when it kicks into high gear.

Does this sound like anything? Can anyone help with this?

[S. Earl Martin]

I have experienced this feeling all my life. I wrote this verse when I was in college as a way to discribe it.
Seems like a dream
Or a scene
from a movie

The way you look
you do something
to me

I added other parts to the song, but that was the inspiration for that line. Even when I was a kid I got the feeling there had to be a better place. Somewhere I could go with out all the hassles and problems of this world. When I was a little kid I thought that movies were real. I would watch Fred Astaire, Gean Kelly, Ginger Rodgers, Etc. and they seemed so happy. Just singing and danceing. Even when something went wrong it always worked out. I would practice dance steps and would sing so I would be ready to go there when I got older. I saw the extras in the back ground and realized I didn't want to be an extra. I wanted to be the star. I was so disappointed when I found out that world wasn't real. That to be a star took a lot of work and it was really make believe.

I still get the feeling that this world is an illusion. That there has to be a better place and some day I will go there. I believe this on a spritual level. The more this world self destructs the more I believe this.

[docjp]

Is you friend on drugs?  Sounds like symptom side effects  of drug usage.
Part of what she is describing is a bit of psychic ability tapping into a realm of reality that is not usually experienced by people.   Part of the "insight' is being twisted by her brain into thoughts that have nothing to do with what she is experiencing.
Part of what she is sharing is a negative self-view that is non-conscious, but slipping out via this psychic pathway.  It is indicative of something of her  early misperceptions taken-on by her MIND at the time of her birth.
The idea of not being connected to life is not unusual, but it is being acted upon by dialogue, and this suggests she is worried about what she is experiencing.... which means she is not aware of much of herself.  In this she is not alone.  Most people know very little about the 3/4ths of themselves that are Esoteric [not capable of being perceived by ones brain].  Also part of what she is expressing may be foresight into what is coming, and she is taking this personally.
http://about-psychology.com/site.html
Peace

[pljames]

I have been a daydreamer all my life. I to didn't like my reality, so I daydreamed. Mostly science fiction. Knowing it wasn't real but it gave me happiness and calmness. I am convinced and persuaded (beyond a reasonble doubt) that I live in reality like it or not. I also have been living a delusion (because I believed my family friends and society as a whole believed what the told me, but was there delusion). I know the good and bad of this life.

Life is what you make it (and believe) reguardless of the present circumstances. The mind is a believing and not believing machine, we create by reality. I think there's a point where we cannot accept any truth and we (lose it so to speak). Opinion mine. Thoughts please.pljames

[docjp]

I find it very helpful in my hearing  others and in applying thoughts to others to keep in my awareness the fact that each of us designed a Fate Karma for this lifetime, and ones MIND keeps one fulfilling this Fate Karma continuously.  This helps me retain a self-view that assumes more responsibility for what I am experiencing.  And by simple projection, others are involved in the Fate Karma they designed for themselves as well.

She said:

"I keep thinking this isnt reality. ."

/b]

In saying this she is simply stating what is true.  That she is at times aware of this Reality [we are actually separate from what we are  experiencing] tells me that she is a bit psychic [but probably does not know this?].   This awareness is commonly shared but rarely prompts people to pursue a deeper understanding of what they are experiencing... due to fear.

[pljames]

I find it very helpful in my hearing  others and in applying thoughts to others to keep in my awareness the fact that each of us designed a Fate Karma for this lifetime, and ones MIND keeps one fulfilling this Fate Karma continuously.  This helps me retain a self-view that assumes more responsibility for what I am experiencing.  And by simple projection, others are involved in the Fate Karma they designed for themselves as well.

She said:

"I keep thinking this isnt reality. ."

/b]

In saying this she is simply stating what is true.  That she is at times aware of this Reality [we are actually separate from what we are  experiencing] tells me that she is a bit psychic [but probably does not know this?].   This awareness is commonly shared but rarely prompts people to pursue a deeper understanding of what they are experiencing... due to fear.

Vanucover,
We are seperate from what we are experiencing? What if we are the experience? We created and believe what we see hear feel sense and taste.
In that case we are the experience, it as reality and not experiencing it separatley. Thoughts? pl