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Derealization is real. when your hands go numb and start to shake like they belong to someone else everything turns a shade of yellow some blurry some animated but the outside world changes to you start to shake. it will pick you piece by piece until all that's left is your mind asking what's real? what's not? no one warns you of how absolutely terrifying it is to feel yourself slip all you can do is sit and wait for it to pass but it doesn't just pass it curls around your skull it clouds your head and infects it like a gas leak fogging your mind from reality warping your body's sense of presence every heartbeat is too loud every movement feels false every breath is shallow but never ending its like being trapped between reality and a dream you cant wake from sometimes you wonder if this is who you are or just the sickness that has lived in your mind and even when it fades you carry the echo the knowledge that your own brain can turn against you and contaminate your version of reality
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Feb 16
Feb 16, 2026 at 2:58 AM UTC
Nothings real
Derealization is real. when your hands go numb and start to shake like they belong to someone else everything turns a shade of yellow some blurry some animated but the outside world changes to you start to shake. it will pick you piece by piece until all that's left is your mind asking what's real? what's not? no one warns you of how absolutely terrifying it is to feel yourself slip all you can do is sit and wait for it to pass but it doesn't just pass it curls around your skull it clouds your head and infects it like a gas leak fogging your mind from reality warping your body's sense of presence every heartbeat is too loud every movement feels false every breath is shallow but never ending its like being trapped between reality and a dream you cant wake from sometimes you wonder if this is who you are or just the sickness that has lived in your mind and even when it fades you carry the echo the knowledge that your own brain can turn against you and contaminate your version of reality
derealization is real don't let anyone tell you otherwise
alwayspaulaaa
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Feb 16
Feb 16, 2026 at 2:58 AM UTC
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