Feeling Like A Doll

Sometimes I feel like this. I've always just called it feeling "spaced out" or "spacey." But I totally get what you mean about feeling a bit doll-like!

 

Well when I use an exfoliating cloth on my face it does feel like I'm being sanded lol

 

I can't say I've ever felt like a doll mentally or emotionally, because I've never really considered what that would mean. I tend to think of dolls one of two ways--either completely inanimate or as the characters I've created for them. The characters are all living people not living dolls, so their characters really don't differ from the feelings or thoughts of a living person.

Physically, I have had doll like thoughts cross my mind, like when I do my makeup and feel like I got a new faceup, or have an uneven tan and refer to it as a bad resin match or the time I was complaining about my feet hurting and wanting to order a new pair of feet. XD

 

To the actual question, I occasionally have those mildly-dissociating moments/days where I feel very... not-entirely-real. It definitely comes with floppy arms that do not pose well! I'm going to try to start thinking of those days in doll terms now, because that actually sounds like a very comforting way of coping with feeling like not-a-completely-real-person...


In terms of other ways I feel like a doll, I definitely need to be kept out of the sun... though instead of yellowing, I turn red, of course. Almost instantly. #gingerproblems

 

I have those moments a lot actually. I sometimes feel like a semi empty shell of human or I'll space out (which happens way too often) or some similar dissociation of self will happen in varying degrees of intensity. I've never thought of it as "feeling like a doll" but that's actually a really good way to phrase it. I'm definitely going to start thinking of it in doll terms because that feels...weirdly comforting. I think that part of it is just my severe lack of ability to focus

 

Sure, sometimes I've felt like certain people own me and were directing my every movement and action. If that doesn't describe 'feeling like a doll' I'm not sure what does.

 

Yes! I especially feel this way when I notice my body posture feels similar to some of the more common poses of dolls, if I'm wearing nice clothes...though it's a two-edged feeling. Feeling like a doll is like feeling dainty and detached from the grittiness of your environment,so if you want to do something that makes you feel alive, it's depressing...
by the way, if dolls could feel, not as characters, but as dolls...is that what they'd feel like? :'D elegant and blank? Admired? Embalmed with the luxuriousness of beauty? The dark glamour of the style they're dressed in, as though feeling hushed by the opulence of ballrooms and quiet anticipation of darkening theaters?
I feel like they'd be in tune with the concept you had while making them, or that they'd be very appreciative of the taste behind their fashions, e.g. posh haute couture, sharp and fastidious formally-dressed, sleepy and happy fairy kei, pensive grunge...

 

@Genbento Not to make you worry but I'd tell a doctor about things you feel affect your brain and especially your hearing. That could be an aura to a mild migraine or seizure event. I've lived with feeling parts of my brain and their effects for over half my life, it's just better to be aware of what's happening.

 

Even if it's comforting, so are temporal lobe seizures which are harmless. It could be the early signs of migraines or it could be nothing. You might be great at meditating.

I'm as okay as I can be, I'm better in a controlled environment away from stress and noise. My injury happened after I blacked out during a surprise seizure. For me a sudden change of hearing means a change in blood pressure and I need to sit down and rest.