Do you feel like you're in a movie?

[Sportster]

I was wondering if anyone else feels as though they are an actor in a movie; as though daily life is almost make believe. However, things become quite confusing when 'reality' collides with the 'make believe.' I?m not saying that those of us who think this way think we are in a movie, but merely feel like we're in a movie.

Often I feel as though my day-to-day life doesn't seem real, as though I'm a character in some never-ending movie. Things become confusing, difficult, whatever when circumstances can have certain ramifications. For example, getting an automobile loan. Shopping for a car, dealing with salespeople, etc. are scenes in 'the movie.' When it's time to purchase and get the loan, that's when 'the movie' collides with reality.

I'm sure none of this makes sense, but then it's difficult at times articulating what goes on inside my head. This line of thinking, or whatever it's called, has been this way my entire life.

Anyway, I would like to hear if others experience the same thing.

 

[Misanthrope]

no because if it was, I would have been ambushed by multi coloured ninja's by now

or gotten that special call from the Red Ninja Empire on my Garfield Ninja Phone by now...

 

[Hadassah]

I used to think that when I was a kid! Seriously, I was sure that I was in some kind of movie -I had a vivid imagination (still do) and I was in my own world a lot

 

[ekoy]

Not like a movie, more like an abstract story. But as soon as I become aware that I'm "seeing what I'm seeing", it suddenly seems impossible. Kind of like I never really believed anything about the world, and just assumed that everything is what it seems. Almost likr dissociation is my normal state where I can think more or less sanely.

In combination with a rather obsessive way of thinking, this means I find myself trying to reason my way out of really f*cked up thoughts. Which only makes them worse.

 

[King_Oni]

I sometimes feel my life is a sitcom... and somehow the sound of the laugh track is being blocked out from my hearing.

 

[Roxy2348]

Haha I was just thinking about that a few minutes ago. I definitely feel that way. And I feel like I'm forced to play along with the role. I feel like I would be lost and just motionless and silent if people were not expecting me to behave a certain way. I think that's why I've always been interesting in acting in the first place. Because it gives me a thorough understanding of many different lifestyles and how they act. I enjoy pretending that I'm in the middle of random scenarios and challenging myself to act my way through it so I can be prepared if it ever happens.

 

[tree]

I have noticed that people tend to act disturbed by a statement like "I feel like I am in a movie."
They go off on how you need 'help,' that you have a problem.....

What I would mean by "I feel like I am in a movie" is that I am feeling acutely aware of myself in/as a physical being and seeing that physical being as an participant in reality.

 

[AsperDragon]

I often feel that i am an old man replaying my life....kind of a life flashing before my eyes type of thing.
I also spent alot of time as a child trying to decide whether or not other people existed as i did or if they were robot actors of some sort that filled roles needed for me to find this reality believable.

 

[cherryq]

My life feels less like a movie and more like a novel series with two very distinct, yet intertwining, story lines. The first story line is my everyday life, including my aspirations for the future and my recollection of past events. The second story line is the more abstract, less than reality, inner world that I often escape to when life gets too complicated or stressful. Especially in the second story line (and occasionally in the first), I see people as characters in a book, actions as a developing plot line, and underlying feelings as the basis for character development. That thinking often helps me as I navigate life and interact with people and situations.

 

[FreeDiver]

I think that acting is a way of life for an aspie. At least for me it is. The outside world to me is nothing but a great big Theater. I treat any quiet or private space like it's a green room. When I'm in the green room. I can take off the mask and just be me. But when I'm called to come out on stage (step out into the social world.). I dread that moment because I have to stop being me, put on my mask/costume, psych myself up and boldly step out on stage. And once I'm out on stage. All I can think about is how soon I can get off.

 

[AsperDragon]

I think that acting is a way of life for an aspie. At least for me it is. The outside world to me is nothing but a great big Theater. I treat any quiet or private space like it's a green room. When I'm in the green room. I can take off the mask and just be me. But when I'm called to come out on stage (step out into the social world.). I dread that moment because I have to stop being me, put on my mask/costume, psych myself up and boldly step out on stage. And once I'm out on stage. All I can think about is how soon I can get off.

Omg...you just totally nailed it. That so feels right, although i find that at times i can't muster the energy to keep my role/mask up and i let the world see me and then there is great consternation from the masses.

 

[Naturalist]

I feel like I am in a movie, for which everyone has gotten to look at the script & can hear & see the director except for me... and somehow I keep tripping over the cameras and the cameraman cusses me out

 

[Miker]

I?m not sure if this posted in the correct place. If not, then feel free to move it.

I was wondering if anyone else feels as though they are an actor in a movie; as though daily life is almost make believe. However, things become quite confusing when ?reality? collides with the ?make believe.? I?m not saying that those of us who think this way think we are in a movie, but merely feel like we?re in a movie.

Often I feel as though my day-to-day life doesn?t seem real, as though I?m a character in some never-ending movie. Things become confusing, difficult, whatever when circumstances can have certain ramifications. For example, getting an automobile loan. Shopping for a car, dealing with salespeople, etc. are scenes in ?the movie.? When it?s time to purchase and get the loan, that?s when ?the movie? collides with reality.

I?m sure none of this makes sense, but then it?s difficult at times articulating what goes on inside my head. This line of thinking, or whatever it?s called, has been this way my entire life.

Anyway, I would like to hear if others experience the same thing.

I think you will find that the world is like a movie, The matrix! Aspies are the ones that are unplugged and can see the world as it really is whilst non aspies are living out a different reality.
That unfortunately requires us to save Zion!

 

[DogwoodTree]

You might be experiencing dissociation, or the similar depersonalization/derealization. I've read it's fairly common among aspies, as a coping mechanism.

 

[SenorDomino]

I feel like it might as well be, reality is stranger than fiction.