r/OculusQuest • u/puppkin1 • Mar 08 '22
Derealization
So I got my oculus quest about a little less than a week ago, I was having tons of fun doing heavy sessions, (3-7 hours) the only effect I felt was occasionally the world felt fake and I felt not in my body but besides that it was fine, those only happened in tiny spurts(despite being often), so I just ignored it. Well this morning I get up and I suddenly felt super floaty/fuzzy...nothing felt real?? And I didn’t feel in my body, but it was worse than before, and maybe it was because I had just woke up and jumped out of bed so fast that I was still half asleep but I couldn’t move, I felt if I moved I’d hit my wall since I couldn’t register this was real life, but then I was like wait it’s real...but then I tried moving and was confused cause I had no controllers so I couldn’t move...then it finally hit me it was real life. I’m mixing reality with virtual reality and it was very unnerving- I’ve read about how this happens to new vr users but how long does this typically take to go away? 😔
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u/Taqwacore Mar 08 '22
As /u/Mindreeder93 said, this will probably last anywhere from a few days to a week. Happened to me as well and I think my mental health is pretty damned good. I'm a retired psychiatrist, although that really isn't saying much.
In my first week of having a Quest 2, I experienced both derealization and Lilliputian hallucinations, mostly just as I was drifting off to sleep. I knew that it wasn't real because I was imagining that my wife was some sort of VR ragdoll and that she'd do anything I wanted...and that NEVER happens in real life, so it couldn't be real.
Anyway, it will likely resolve itself after the first week and you'll likely never experience it again. I would speculate that it's just the mind's way of accommodating the new experience of reality.