Dissociation gets you through a brutal experience, letting your basic survival skills operate unimpeded… Your ability to survive is enhanced as the ability to feel is diminished… All feeling are blocked; you ‘go away.’ You are disconnected from the act, the perpetrator & yourself… Viewing the scene from up above or some other out-of-body perspective is common among sexual abuse survivors.

Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse