I somehow often have trouble with physical grounding, maybe because I'm such a live-in-my-head type and sometimes have to make myself be grounded in my own life, too. Though dancing as a hobby has helped, as has doing more cooking, baking, and crafts. Anyway, it's something I want to pay more attention to, because I really enjoy reading stories where that's done well.
Sometimes I end up using physical sensation as a way of showing that characters are too fucked up to be able to think, though, so I don't consider it quite so separate from the 'drifting away' that you mention.
That's very true! One of the reasons I focus so much on the sensations and the physical in the scene I was talking about in this post is that there, my usually very cerebral character pointedly isn't able to be cerebral because the things that are happening are affecting her so much. (I feel like that was a very unclear sentence, sorry about that.)
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I somehow often have trouble with physical grounding, maybe because I'm such a live-in-my-head type and sometimes have to make myself be grounded in my own life, too. Though dancing as a hobby has helped, as has doing more cooking, baking, and crafts. Anyway, it's something I want to pay more attention to, because I really enjoy reading stories where that's done well.
Sometimes I end up using physical sensation as a way of showing that characters are too fucked up to be able to think, though, so I don't consider it quite so separate from the 'drifting away' that you mention.
That's very true! One of the reasons I focus so much on the sensations and the physical in the scene I was talking about in this post is that there, my usually very cerebral character pointedly isn't able to be cerebral because the things that are happening are affecting her so much. (I feel like that was a very unclear sentence, sorry about that.)