Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
feel real to yourself
English answer:
did you feel in touch with reality?
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NancyLynn
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feel real to oneself
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During the past week, have you ever had the feeling that some things are unreal, or that you are living in a dream, or perhaps isolated from other people in a strange way?
I really don’t know how to describe that.
Well, for example, did you feel real to yourself?
I really don’t know how to describe that.
Well, for example, did you feel real to yourself?
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did you feel in touch with reality?
did you feel in touch with the physical world around you?
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Kim Metzger
: Or maybe "did you feel that you actually existed as a physical being"?
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Besmir (X)
: Or maybe "Did you feel that you were actively participating in and contributing to the world that surrounds you?"
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derealization or depersonalization
The SL is probably more meaningful to most people than the technical names. The symptom is exactly as described - the person feels as if he is soemhow detached from the body, observing it from outside.
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that is somehow
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The reference has quite a detailed description.
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An alteration in the perception or experience of one's self, so that the self is felt to be unreal, detached from reality or one's own body or mental processes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization
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that is somehow
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The reference has quite a detailed description.
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An alteration in the perception or experience of one's self, so that the self is felt to be unreal, detached from reality or one's own body or mental processes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization
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Thanks awana. These symptoms are not found exclusively in psychosis and are quite distinct form "not being in touch with reality". The sufferer will often bring the symptom to the attention of the therapist because he perceives it as being abnormal.
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Christine Andersen
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the message, not just the words
Native in: English (Variant: UK) 
Works in: Danish to English, English
I feel the world's going round and leaving me behind
I don't know if you can use this, but one of my sisters said it many years ago. I don't know if she was quoting or whether she made it up herself. She might have done - she's good at finding apt expressions.
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usually things one perceives are unreal
usually things one perceives are unreal however may be the person has strange feelings about him/herself.See following definitions:
hallucination=false perception characterized by a distortion of real sensory stimuli. Common types of hallucination are auditory, i.e., hearing voices or noises and visual, i.e., seeing people that are not actually present.
illusion= An erroneous perception of reality.
An erroneous concept or belief.
The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief.
Something, such as a fantastic plan or desire, that causes an erroneous belief or perception.
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Imagine psychotic persons, who say they see/hear/smell things that are not real and all of us know that such things "there are not" (illusion) or they think that they are for example a king while all of us know that they are not or they think they are important persons and others had plotted to kill them so isolated themselves from society, and we say they are not in touch with reality.
This questionnaire wanted to know if the respondents have had such experiences during the last week (note that the duration of these symptoms are very important in diagnosis diseases and distinguishes normal from abnormal…). But how the respondents can judge that what they- believe - are seeing is not real. So it asks about other symptoms such as isolation, etc.
hallucination=false perception characterized by a distortion of real sensory stimuli. Common types of hallucination are auditory, i.e., hearing voices or noises and visual, i.e., seeing people that are not actually present.
illusion= An erroneous perception of reality.
An erroneous concept or belief.
The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief.
Something, such as a fantastic plan or desire, that causes an erroneous belief or perception.
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Imagine psychotic persons, who say they see/hear/smell things that are not real and all of us know that such things "there are not" (illusion) or they think that they are for example a king while all of us know that they are not or they think they are important persons and others had plotted to kill them so isolated themselves from society, and we say they are not in touch with reality.
This questionnaire wanted to know if the respondents have had such experiences during the last week (note that the duration of these symptoms are very important in diagnosis diseases and distinguishes normal from abnormal…). But how the respondents can judge that what they- believe - are seeing is not real. So it asks about other symptoms such as isolation, etc.
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