I’m wondering if anyone has had similar experiences as me. Occasionally I’ll get these short bouts of intense existential dread that typically happens around when I fall asleep or when I wake up from a nap/in the middle of the night. 

I get this 10 second-10 minute experience where the dread of death, meaningless of existence become real to me in a very specific way. It’s like, my fronts lobe/rational logical brain always understands these facts of death etc but only in these moments does it *feel* real to another part of my brain.

It feels like the room I’m in feels alien to me and everything around me is all of the sudden novel but doesn’t feel quite dissociative.