Definition: Switching

Switching is what I (Teresa) experience when there's a lot of loss of executive control. Sometimes it starts as a total change in mood - the exact same thing I was finding fun a minute before, like being tickled, is suddenly horrible. Then sometimes I get a peculiar kind of headache, or I start to feel numb all over. Sometimes then I experience a time jump, where it seems like I was zapped into the future. Or sometimes I feel like I'm watching things down a long tube, or in a dream. Those things are what other people are still thinking is my life happening. But to me it's someone else doing it.