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It is perfectly normal for many people to slip into this state temporarily, often without even realizing it. For example, many people often note that they enter a detached state of autopilot during stressful situations or when performing monotonous routine tasks such as driving. Though degrees of temporary depersonalization can happen to anyone, chronic depersonalization is more related to individuals who have experienced severe trauma or prolonged stress or anxiety.

====2. Self contained separate identity====

====2. Self-contained separate identity====

The second level of identity can be described as feeling as if one is a consciousness located within the body or brain which is approaching and interacting with a distinctly separate external environment. This sensation is usually accompanied with a sense of free will or agency which results in one feeling as if their decision making processes are arising from an internal source which is not necessarily controlled by cause and effect in the same manner as external systems.

The second level of identity can be described as feeling as if one is a consciousness located within the body or brain which is approaching and interacting with a distinctly separate external environment. This sensation is usually accompanied with a sense of free will or agency which results in one feeling as if their decision-making processes are arising from an internal source which is not necessarily controlled by cause and effect in the same manner as external systems.

It is by far the most common form of identity and usually assumed by most people to be the only possible state of being.

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 It is perfectly normal for many people to slip into this state temporarily, often without even realizing it. For example, many people often note that they enter a detached state of autopilot during stressful situations or when performing monotonous routine tasks such as driving. Though degrees of temporary depersonalization can happen to anyone, chronic depersonalization is more related to individuals who have experienced severe trauma or prolonged stress or anxiety.
-====2. Self contained separate identity====
+====2. Self-contained separate identity====
-The second level of identity can be described as feeling as if one is a consciousness located within the body or brain which is approaching and interacting with a distinctly separate external environment. This sensation is usually accompanied with a sense of free will or agency which results in one feeling as if their decision making processes are arising from an internal source which is not necessarily controlled by cause and effect in the same manner as external systems.
+The second level of identity can be described as feeling as if one is a consciousness located within the body or brain which is approaching and interacting with a distinctly separate external environment. This sensation is usually accompanied with a sense of free will or agency which results in one feeling as if their decision-making processes are arising from an internal source which is not necessarily controlled by cause and effect in the same manner as external systems.
 It is by far the most common form of identity and usually assumed by most people to be the only possible state of being.