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Can someone please explain to me the difference between zoning out and dissociating?

I was talking to my psychologist the other day about dissociating and she game me an example of pulling up to your house without knowing how you got there. I have done this and could not remember driving at all, so I was left wondering if I had stopped at red lights and stop signs or not, which could be rather dangerous if I didn’t.

Also sometimes I have sat in my room for hours on several occasions, and have no thoughts at all that I’m aware of. The only way I can think to explain it is like sleeping, but being awake. Like you don’t know when you are sleeping, but when you wake up you know you have and that time has passed. Either I eventually snap out of it over time, or something brings me back, like my mom calling my name or something and when I snap out of it, I noticed that there is a time gap in my memory. So I’m not sure what that is…