Spaced-out
What is Spaced-out?
Drifting out of contact with the present — time blurs, sounds feel far away, your own thoughts seem like someone else's.
When you might feel spaced-out
Spaced-out is a specific form of dissociated, which itself is a type of frozen. You might experience this feeling in situations where frozen is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define spaced-out.
Emotional Hierarchy
Explore Spaced-out on the Interactive Wheel
Use our free interactive feeling wheel to explore spaced-out and discover related emotions.
Open Nervous System States WheelRelated Emotions
An absence of feeling — the system has dampened sensation as a form of protectio...
An empty, flat experience of being, as if the emotional center has gone offline....
A sense of watching yourself from a distance — the mind exits the body when stay...
A thick, cognitive slowness that makes thinking feel like moving through water —...
A loss of reference points — you can't locate yourself in time, space, or relati...
Unable to move forward or backward — activation meets inhibition and the system ...