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What do you mean by dissociating? What is that?

• m12k 5y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation_(psychology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation_(psychology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_disorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_disorder TLDR, it's when some of the core associations in your brain start collapsing. E.g. you lose your sense of self, the world starts feeling unreal, your emotional responses to the world get out of whack. I think of it as semi-random rewiring of the connection between regions of your brain. Changing the layout of the connectivity of your brain is indeed a purpose of meditation, but always slowly over months and years. Doing so in a sudden, violent or random fashion most certainly isn't.
  • babyblueblanket 5y ago
    Dissociation also is any sort of abstracting from reality. This happens in daydreaming for example.
    • raincom 5y ago
      In fact, lucid dreaming is one of the techniques used in 'buddhism'.