I believe disassociation may be a bit closer to the mark.
Thanks for pointing this term out. I'd heard the term before but never knew what it was. I was looking it up and it seems to be exactly what I've experienced in the past, and probably will again in the future. I suppose it is more common than I thought.
Hey, it seems other people are just as weird as me!

Well, I guess these are things nobody ever talks about (but which may lay there in the back of the mind to surface whenever one least expects it). Mostly because these experiences just cannot be communicated in words. They are feelings, states of mind.
I agree that weird things happen to people in their heads that stay there, in the back of their minds. Only because words truly don't posses the capabilities of describing those most abstract, inner feelings we experience. I believe for that reason people keep it to themselves. Perhaps some believe that everyone else experiences it and that it is a natural thing.
That sounds somewhat like it, but perhaps more powerful in my case. "Disconnected" seems to be the one word that describes it best. I felt like I was "outside the illusion", my perception of time changed and I saw everything passing by. It lasted for quite a while and I got some insights out of it. I realized I have to act now if I want something out of life.
That is quite odd. I experience the disconnection feeling, but the change in your perception of time is very strange indeed. I imagine this is something one has to experience for themselves to fully comprehend. I wonder how others, if any, saw you relative to their time perception. I wouldn't mind experiencing this for myself.
I kind of like when these disconnections happen to me. They are very rare, but when they do happen, something deep inside me hopes my life really isn't real, that what I'm experiencing has been fake all along, that maybe I will wake up in a different mind. Sometimes I wonder if we live in a world like the Matrix. Sometimes, when my mind really starts to wonder, I think things like that those behind the scenes of the real world programmed the movie, "The Matrix," into our world just to mock us; to put it right under our faces knowing we can't do anything about it. Sorry if that sounds crazy (I don't get out much, I mean, at all, really).
What really keeps our conscious inside one particular head anyway? Why does my conscious take the role of this body? I know it all comes down to the cells that make us up, that all the thought-processes are just cells moving in our brains, but sometimes I wonder if there's more to it than that. I mean, at the sub-atomic level the world is a very weird place where things can disappear or pop into existence out of nothing. I know there are experts in this field of quantum mechanics, but there are many mysteries yet to be solved in that realm. Who's to say our conscious can't transfer to another brain. We'd wake up with all the memories of the new brain so we'd have no idea, but perhaps this "disconnection" is but a mere side-effect. You never know... after all, everything in the universe is connected in one way or another. Then again, I am just rambling on...
My apologies if at any time this post strayed off topic.