Feeling like I am in a dream.. like i am asleep..

[CMSliwa]

Hi.  I was wondering if anyone else feels like this..  I never posted a topic explaining my feeling.  It is hard to explain.

Ever since my first panic attack at age 13 I feel as if I have fallen into a coma.  I feel like I am asleep.  My head feels lightheaded, like there is a soft fog right beneath my eyes that cause me to be unable to see, feel, hear... etc.  

When I dream at night I wake up not knowing if it was a dream or if it was real, because i feel almost the exact same.  I feel like I am floating around in a dream.  There has not been one moment where I have "awoken" or "the fog has lifted."  It has been like this everymoment of every day for 5 years.

I have depression, anxiety, and panic.  I have been on meds which made me feel better, but I am still "asleep".  Nothing has woken me up.  

I feel like I'm just gonna wake up from a coma one day.  

Does anyone else feel like this.. or have felt like this?  Is there hope?  The docs told me the meds should help this feeling in a year or 2, but its been 5 and i am losing hope of ever waking up

[floaty13years]

Omg! Ive been feeln like this for 13 years! I swear i just woke up one day and nothn looked the same..i felt like the room was..not spinning ..but in motion..i went to so many doctors unable to explain how i felt..i started to hold things n and frlt ashames when a doc laughed at me and said u need a pchychiatrist...i knew nothn about a pcychor coinseling anxiety
.i felt sopo alone i missed a month of work cuz i felt like i was out of my body and kinda floaty..like my mind was lucid and not stable..back then there wasnt anything on tje internet that cud help me describe the feeling..i prayes that "this thing over me" would jus go away..thats how i feel ..likea shadow or somerhins hangin over me everyday..if im lookn at the sky it feels like ..idk..like theres motion between the space so jard tonexplain..ive been dealing with thia for 13 yeqts now..no mri or all the tests ive had show anything..thia jas def ruined my life. The quality of life is horrible..becus of this everyday for me is jus survival..tryim not to breakdown..tryin 10 times harder to focus on things. The docs hav no idea what thia is jua saynum depressed HELL I WASNT BEFORE THIS HAPPENED..of courae  depressed now..depression didnt cause this..this caused depression..some days are worse than othrs some days i feel paralzed n jus cnt get outta bed..iys so hard to relax..i hope one day sombdy figurea this out..um tired of suffering :-(

[Beercoroner]

I have felt the exact same way since I had a panic attack while driving almost a year ago . Saw 3 different doctors and they no one could give me an answer. Eventually they put me on  anti anxiety and ADD medication ( dextro amphetamine ). I still haven't woke up either . I'm going to be pissed if this is like the Matrix or something and we're the normal ones .. Lol

[belieber09]

I am 15 years old , I have every symptom you just explained. I feel as if I'm unsure that this is real life. Sounds wierd but as if I lived before. Its been two months & I'm just so scared I dont know what to do anymore. I have been to the doctors but of course they just keep saying its anxiety but its so much more than that. I really hope you get better & you get your life back.

[hopefulleal]

hey me too... I will be sober 3 months in a couple of days now from smoking, after constant smoking for a year dealing with issues the wrong way.. but im so scared cause a few days ago I had a dream where i woke up midway and i had to seriously convince myself what was real and what wasn't for a while and my heart was racing. that morning i had a thought that maybe this isn't real or like im still dreaming, or like the matrix, and the thought comes and goes, but im petrified of this thinking and if im going crazy. maybe not the right community for all of this but if anyone has any experience with this.. im all ears..

[smitty42]

Hi im glad i read your post the same thing happened to me a month ago i had a massive panic attack had to go to hospital thought i was going to die at the time most horrible feelings you feel at the time.Now i am on medication there called AXIT and DELARIN they are for panic attacks and depression but still feel down dream like state light headed tired unbalanced at times etc. Any other medication out there that would be better for me i would love to try another one these ones dont seen to be working

[Piercetheveiladdict_]

I feel this way.. But it's gone so far that Im harming myself to see if I'll bleed or if I'll wake up.. I want to get out of it so bad I want to kill myself just to wake up..