Does anyone get these weird moments when....

Well sometimes, when I realise there are 7 billion + on the planet, I feel really insignificant. But then i eventually see that within each person/soul there is a world in itself That usually resolves it for me

 

Omg yes! Yes yes! It's usually when I start thinking about dying and being nothing I get that exact feeling, freaky! And it's just for like a couple seconds too it's just a weird feeling but I totally know what ur trying to describe!

 

Yeah, sometimes I start to think too much and to ask myself why we have to live if we are all going to die one day... so I just go to sleep

 

Yeah a few time

 

Yep. I get really existential and freak out a lot; I become hyper-aware of my breathing rate and heartbeat, and I think I'm gonna die. Pretty sure it's a panic attack.

 

At first, I read the thread and was like : huh, no... But I seriously thought about it and sometimes, I try to figure how I would feel if I was, for example, my mother. Or this girl on the street, or that cute boy working at starbucks... And then it starts and i'm like "Well, you are Otsuke, you've done this and that..., but what if you were anyone else? Would my actions be more important or just totally different ? Would I live on the same path I do now or.. ?" There are tons of questions like that, but it's pretty rare it goes through my mind. Weird deep thoughts but still not too important to live the life YOU want to live.

 

Quite often. I'll feel like daily life in general doesn't make sense. That it's too structured and feels artificial. None of my surroundings really seem real most days, it all feels synthetic. That there's something else there, but I can't see it.

EDIT: Actually, this probably isn't what you're talking about.

 

I often have moments like this, they are more poetic and calming though. For me, these fleeting realizations are reminders that everything will be okay and that life continues no matter how difficult or challenging it may seem at any given moment. I call them prefect moments, it's like for one split second the world slows in its rotation and you are able to visualize, hear and understand something so differly because all of the static noise has vanished. However, like I said these moments are fleeting and last only seconds. Seconds that sometimes can be misconstrued as minutes. Some sort of time warp almost...

These perfect moments used to only occur for me about 1 every 3 months or so but since I have lives on my own since August they occur more often, almost once a week. It's rare for me that it happens while someone else is present in te moment and even rarer if that person is also able to interpret the moment as I have.

Weird. But true...

 

Maybe we're losing sanity.

 

All the time actually. lol.
I always thought it was odd

 

Actually, I think I went through something like that, except it's more like I'm Jim Carey in The Truman Show; one day, when I was young, I had a bit of an existential crisis where I think that everything was fake/artificial, as in every concrete object was actually nonexistent (again, like in The Truman Show).

Nowadays, it's more like what you describe, Formality, most particularly on Sunday evenings, where thinking on a macro-scale can be distressing, and knowing that nothing one does in the world, let alone in the galaxy or the Universe, will result in a feeling of emptiness. I can assure you, however, that thinking that you live in a setting similar to The Truman Show is an even worse feeling, and it's an even more difficult mindset to get out of.

 

Yes. I get it a lot. Especially when I think about the universe and try to comprehend it. it's like I'm dizzy but...different.

 

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I get this weird feeling and I see myself differently. Like, that's me? I exist, this is how a person looks...and then I see the others differently and then just say, "they exist, they're real" and then I see them in a whole other way than I usually would. Sometimes I forget that I'm not the only person on the planet.

 

Yeah, lots of times, it's almost like an out of body experience. Can't explain it any other way.