Poster Presentation
Author: Ashley Elizabeth Pailet (Delgado Community College)
The present argument was crafted introspectively by the author to equate the qualitative feeling of the solar eclipse to the mental process of dissociation. The solar eclipse is a phenomenon where, during the day, the sun is covered up by the moon. During this time, for a few brief moments, you can stare directly into the sun and even see the outer layer known as the corona. Conversely, yet related in a nonmaterial sense, to disassociate is to feel “disconnected from yourself and the world around you.”
When the sun blinks out during a total solar eclipse, it’s like you step outside of time and space into a place where you can see that you are part of the world, not disconnected from it. The purpose of this argument is to describe a relatable analogy for battling your way out of dissociation where a scientific phenomenon meets a psychological process.
The hope is that this argument will shed light on the connection of community involvement, shared experiences, and novel events with the process of unrealness/ disconnection from your mind, body, and the world around you.
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How to Cite: Pailet, A. E. (2024) “The solar eclipse as an analogy for dissociation”, Academic High Altitude Conference. 2024(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/ahac.17974
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