weird symptom of blendy dissociation for us: our vision seems to oscillate slightly horizontally at about 5~10-ish Hz
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@Felthry Interesting effect. I am curious about the sensation but don't mean to impose questions on you.

@Austin_Dern if you have questions, we'll answer them if able!
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@Felthry I wondered if you'd noticed whether your vision oscillates as you start to blend, or whether that's something that develops after. Like, is your vision a leading or a trailing indicator?

@Austin_Dern Hmm. Well it's not blendiness itself causing it, it's the specific type of dissociation that also causes us to feel all blendy (there are other ways of being blendy that are not necessarily tied to dissociation)

the blendiness sometimes comes first though so maybe it's just that it and the dissociation are linked? I think it may be a particular sort of stress that causes it, except that *also* felt different this time? i dunno
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@Austin_Dern i apologize for the answer being very disjointed and probably hard to understand

we don't understand it either
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@Felthry You haven't anything to apologize for! And I don't think it was hard to understand, although of course it's hard to know whether a mental experience like that is communicated. It certainly wasn't disjointed, though, please don't worry about that. I appreciate your sharing your experience with me.

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