DP and DR induction procedures were the following: staring at a dot on the wall, staring in a mirror, and silent repetition of one's name. (Miller et al., 1994)*.
If derealization can be induced by repeating ones own name, I'm wondering if repeating the phrase "I am me" causes derealization as well?
Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener" or is it the state of hyper meta-cognition that makes everything seem foreign? Or maybe it's both?
References
Miller, P. P., Brown, T. A., DiNardo, P. A., & Barlow, D. H. (1994). The experimental induction of depersonalization and derealization in panic disorder and nonanxious subjects. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 32(5), 511-519. doi: 10.1016/0005-7967(94)90138-4 pmid: 8042962
