That’s blindsight. The memory (?) I have is of a man who was to all appearances perfectly conscious (while awake) and conducted himself in a perfectly sensible manner but reported feeling as if at every moment the world was dissolving into a dream-like morass, so that each moment was somehow disconnected from every other. He had no conscious access to his internal narrative, even though he carried out plans that he made, went to appointments, etc.
You’re not by any chance thinking of Peter Watts’s novel “Blindsight”, which has zombies as characters, are you?
reported feeling as if at every moment the world was dissolving into a dream-like morass, so that each moment was somehow disconnected from every other
No, I haven’t read Blindsight yet (it’s in my queue). Those other terms seem close, but unless I can find the actual account I seem to recall, my report should only have a negligible weight of evidence.
That’s blindsight. The memory (?) I have is of a man who was to all appearances perfectly conscious (while awake) and conducted himself in a perfectly sensible manner but reported feeling as if at every moment the world was dissolving into a dream-like morass, so that each moment was somehow disconnected from every other. He had no conscious access to his internal narrative, even though he carried out plans that he made, went to appointments, etc.
You’re not by any chance thinking of Peter Watts’s novel “Blindsight”, which has zombies as characters, are you?
That sounds like Depersonalization or Derealization.
No, I haven’t read Blindsight yet (it’s in my queue). Those other terms seem close, but unless I can find the actual account I seem to recall, my report should only have a negligible weight of evidence.