Sometimes it happens that our consciousness eludes us, everything around us becomes as if shrouded in fog, and our thoughts become confused and bogged down. And the seemingly habitual way of thinking slips through your fingers, and something that was always on the surface can no longer be reached. It swirls on the tongue, but does not come, skillfully evading our consciousness, so we wander through the fields of the psyche, ending up in the valley of fogs and no longer understand where to go. At these moments, the question of dissociation arises. Dissociation is a protective mechanism of the psyche that exists in order to protect the individual from traumatic events and their consequences. But sometimes something goes wrong and this mechanism splits our personality so much that in the future it affects our entire existence. Dissociation is a splitting of the psyche and body, a splitting of the psyche and awareness, as if tearing off a piece of personality that is too painful to fit into the experience of life, too saturated with negative experiences to be integrated. This often happens due to injury. The brain regards the experience as threatening to the entire personality and, due to this, splits it off from the main personality. Dissociation can manifest itself in different ways, from a slight loss of orientation in time, to permanent memory loss, the emergence of a so-called second personality. Dissociation can cause a violation of the sense of time, loss of control over one’s own behavior, changes in thinking, emotional expression, body image, and impaired perception of reality , meanings and significance of current situations, cause a feeling of regression. A person in dissociation is clamped and confused, he has lost part of himself. The degree of dissociation is determined by the “continuum” of “norm-pathology” states. At one end of this continuum there are symptoms that a person may normally experience, such as absent-mindedness, forgetfulness, and emotional coldness. At the other end are pathological conditions - dissociative disorder, multiple personality, amnesia, fugues, etc. In the middle of this continuum, there are many different conditions that can be either an independent phenomenon or part of severe conditions. Dissociation does not always lead to split personality and mental health problems; when realized, this mechanism can help a lot when faced with excessive experiences that at the moment the personality cannot process and adapt to them. Absolutely all people encounter it at one time or another. But with pathological phenomena, dissociation tries to hide that very split-off piece from the main personality, from our consciousness, and when a moment occurs when something or someone reminds of this part , then we are thrown into that very valley of fogs, where dissociation leads us in a circle, preventing us from finding the hidden trauma. In this case, dissociation is used permanently by the person and, in fact, does not allow him to fully function and enjoy life; it absorbs mental and intellectual processes, leading the person in circles, like a broken record. Most often, when dealing with dissociation, they assume the presence of trauma in the past, where there was such a large amount of horror, pain and anxiety that the psyche was unable to adapt to the situation and integrate the experience gained. If a person could not survive a spectrum of feelings, or one unbearable feeling, he splits off this part of himself, and it remains to wander in the unconscious, leaving the trauma open and relevant for the rest of his life. The part of the human psyche that has experienced a traumatic event remains forever in this traumatic event, and further reality is distorted through dissociation, where a person must survive and fight and experience this moment over and over again. But, there are situations when a person does not remember the trauma inflicted, for example, in childhood, and then the manifestations of dissociation will be expressed differently, they will be reflected in his body. The body begins to react to reminders of the traumatic experience, but the brain.