Clocktower
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it feels like wonked out robot drugs
"Feeling like a robot" is a really common sensation for low/moderate doses of dissociatives, in my experience.
Imagine yourself sitting at the controls of a highly sophisticated robotic arm that can deftly pick up blocks and stack them atop one another. You use your hands to manipulate the controls, and the robotic arm becomes an extension of your body, but you don't feel connected to it in the same way you feel connected to your own arms and hands. In some sense, you move the robotic arm, but in another sense, it moves itself.
When I take dissociatives, my body becomes the robot. I feel less that I am moving my body and more that my body is moving itself, in response to my commands.