In addition to alienation from yourself, you may also have the unsettling experience that your surroundings or people around you seem unreal. For example, your own house may appear to be unfamiliar, strange, or unreal, as though you are visiting someone else’s house. Or a person you know well may seem strange and unfamiliar. The world may feel unreal as though you are in a dream or a play. Sometimes your surroundings may appear hazy, foggy, or distant. People’s voices may sound very far away, as if down a long tunnel, even though they are close, or they seem far away visually even though they are right next to you. In people with a dissociative disorder, these symptoms of unfamiliarity or unreality may, at least some of the time, be related to parts of the personality that are living in trauma time, that is, they confuse the present with the past and thus do not experience the present as real or familiar. These parts may influence your perception of the reality to such an extent that you can become confused.