I'm walking but I feel like I'm not moving, help?
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Sometimes when I walk I get this sudden sensation that the surrounding is not moving, yet I am walking. I feel like I'm on a treadmill and caught in a loop. I know it's irrational, but afterwards I get this intense fear that I'm not real and I'm somehow caught in a loop? What should I do? It makes me very anxious when this happens and usually it's self inflicted but I can't control it. I keep thinking, what if it happens again and my mind makes it look like the background is not moving. What should I do?
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sam01538 juliexxm
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I have the same thing exactly, I think it's just when I walk I concentrate on something that's in front of me and when I walk towards it it feels like I'm not getting any closer, but whenever it happens I look at the ground and I realise I am in fact moving and then I carry on, don't worry it gets better, it happens every now and then but you start to realise it's just your head
Amykins21 juliexxm
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I get this quite often. It's all anxiety. I notice it happens to me when I go out in public. My anxiety likes to kick in when I go to a store or out to dinner. It feels like my legs are really weak and I know they're moving, but they feel like I'm not going anywhere. Kinda feels like I'm walking on air. Then I get all anxious thinking I'm going to embarrass myself and collapse in public. But when my anxiety goes away, that feeling also subsides.
sam01538 Amykins21
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I'm happy that it's not just me that it happens to, I thought no one else had it apart from me, Its gave me some comfort knowing that other people get the same feeling
Amykins21 sam01538
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I'm glad you have some comfort knowing other people have the same symptoms. It's nice talking to people who understand what your going through. I've tried explaining to my husband, and he sympathizes as much as he can, but will never fully understand. Anxiety symptoms suck!
sam01538 Amykins21
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I honestly didn't think I have anxiety and some what still don't think I do it's just a really scary experience like it happens but very rarely maybe once every couple of weeks I realise that It's happening, it made me really angry and made me feel disconnected with what's going on around me, i thought it was something that never happened to anyone but knowing some one else had it happen make a big difference knowing I'm not the only one
Amykins21 sam01538
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You probably do have anxiety, but just not severe. Hopefully it never gets to that point with you. Just make sure you try to get a grasp on it now before it spins out of control. Just know it's a quick spurt of anxiety, you're not dying, and that your body is just overreacting a bit. Nothing to worry about!
sam01538 Amykins21
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Thank you I really do appreciate it 😄
Amykins21 sam01538
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No problem! 😀
jazz01917 juliexxm
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this was pretty scary, i was walking past a grave yard with my friend and were right above the hill in sight of the grave and we heard creepy music playing with noone nearby and i started speed walking and going back to the house with my friend and right from the bottom of the hill not even a minute back to the cemetary it was like a boundery we couldnt walk past this one thing we were freaking out and even tried running ans everytime i look at the ground when walking the same object kept appearing like i was on a repeat so i turned around to the firection of the cemetary and i was able to walk. untik i turned around and start saying its okay held my friwnds hand and was able to break the invisable wall. it sounds crazy but it happened
jamie90193 juliexxm
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hi do u still suffer from this and what is it
daniel37441 juliexxm
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Oh man! I am so relieved to find that im not the only one !!! its comforting. This has been going on for awhile , to the point where I mentioned it to my doctor and she looked at me like I was crazy !! She blamed it on my blood pressure , and I explained to her exactly what I was experiencing . Its like I am walking in place and it is very discomforting , its hard to be out in public , or even do physical activity sometimes . I fight it off and ignore it as much as possible , but it comes every so often.