" The first time I experienced dissociation I had no idea what was happening to me. I sat on the couch with my boyfriend. He said something to me and when I looked at him, I didn't recognize his face.
I still knew it was him, but his features looked mangled and foreign. This face that I had looked at thousands of times now seemed strange.
Needless to say, I was terrified. "
― , A Return to Self: Depersonalization and How to Overcome It