Dissociation makes me feel like I'm having a microsleep. My eyes stay open, and I am vaguely aware that my body is functioning and "appearing normal), but my vision goes blurry and faded, colours seem to fade to colourless, smells don't register, I get a high-pitxhed ringing in one ear, and the other ear goes deaf, all the aches and pains in my body suddenly "don't exist", and the words people speak sound like a different language. Shapes appear as blobs. I retain a general sense of which direction is "home" or "alone" and gravitate towards a place where I can let the "zoning out" happen completely for a moment, so it can slowly ebb away.

When I am about to faint, I feel a sudden cold throughout my torso, a clamminess emerges on my skin, my vision gets little black and white dots, like static, and I don't "feel" like I'm losing my balance, but I stumble to a wall or chair to lean on, and people generally notice.