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I sometimes have a moment of total alienation from myself. It's not quite amnesia, I know who I am in the abstract, but that's just it, it's abstract - a jamais vu of the self. Sort of like, "Wait, who am I? Oh yes, this is my name and this is my address. I am apparently the person who fits that profile." It's incredibly eerie. Other people have told me of a similar feeling. Sometimes I wonder if it's a tiny stroke or seizure or something. I guess our identities are so complex, it's no great surprise that they could slip away from us on occasion.
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@MonstersAndRockets: I know exactly what you're talking about. It's rare disorder named "Ismoketoomuchpot"
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@MonstersAndRockets: I know exactly what you're talking about. I've had the same thing since I was a kid, way before I'd ever tasted alcohol or any other mind altering substance. It's always accompanied by a sense of cloudy spaciousness for lack of a better description.
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@Gann: There's a moment in "Life, the Universe and Everything" where Arthur Dent is in great danger on the side of a mountain and he suddenly has what Douglas Adams describes as "one of those 'self' moments", in which he disassociates from himself and ponders his place in the universe. Reading that as a kid tripped me out, because I'd never heard anybody talk about it before. But it made me feel a little weird about the whole thing.
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