I want to talk about disassociation during crisis moments and how fascinating it is to me.  Like when you’re faced with a crisis moment, a car accident, you’re in a war, you’re an EMT… you’re dealing with someone either dead or dying, etc. And somehow you’re able to dissociate yourself just enough to look at the situation clinically. You can put emotions aside and just focus on survival. I’m fascinated with that state of mind you get into.

Like. A personal example. My father and I found my grandfathers dead body, at his home in his garden. He died peacefully (but unexpectedly) of natural causes. He had been dead for a few hours, so there was no use doing CPR or anything. And there’s a moment when we’re just standing there around this dead body waiting for the ambulance to arrive and it’s… it’s awkward almost. Because what do you do in that situation? The average person just doesn’t know how to react to a dead body and that’s normal but it’s like something I’d say a good portion of the population has to encounter at some point.

And I think the key is to be honest and say ‘yeah, that’s a weird situation to be in’ because you’re in shock you’re not feeling your emotions correctly and I’m just fascinated with that state of mind.