Does anyone feel invisible at times?

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Sometimes I pretend to be invisible either because I'm embarrassed about something, I'm guilty about something, or I'm anxious about something. But sometimes, I'm invisible to others even when I don't want to. I find it quite heartbreaking. Now, I would never kill myself, but sometimes I would feel dead to some folks. It's like I wouldn't exist. Sometimes when I'm here on this site or in the real world, I am a ghost!

Does anyone else feel like this at times, where you feel like you don't exist? If you have any comments about this, feel free to respond! I don't want to feel alone here, you know?

Who said that? sry yes i feel invisible too, especially on here

I feel like that a lot. Not really on here though.
But it doesn't bother me IRL. So I only feel sad when I feel like certain people on here are ignoring me.

Ifelt invisible a lot when I was younger. As I child I have been invisible all my childhood untill I was thirteen and I became a Punk Rocker. Then it turned around: people became invisible to me When I stopped being a Punk Rocker bij age sixteen and I became more moderate, I was invisible again.

These days (I'm almost thirtynine years old) I'm still invisible in large groups. I always seem to be pushed away from a group talking without anyone touching me. I always wonder how that happens. I usually don't try to be involved in group talking, but when I am, I am standing outside the group in less than ten minutes. Even if I trie to stay involved.

I feel invisible and ignored most of the time in here

don't take it so seriously. i think most of us have that feeling, here or anywhere else. sometimes there is a whole week that the only people i have a contact with are cashiers in grocery store when i pay no big deal

I’m a mass hallucination.

I sometimes feel like that - that i'm invisible- in a crowd of people. usually i don't care (used to it), but when I'm down it does make me feel worse.

Wow, that's exactly what happens to me too! I tried explaining to my husband how much trouble I have when the other moms are standing around in a circle. If I manage to infiltrate the circle, I'm soon pushed back to the outside. Like you, I can never figure out how it happens, since no one actually shoves me out of their group. He keeps telling me that I just have to join in, but it doesn't work that way for me.

The original post reminded me of how my kids used to cover their eyes, if they were in trouble. They thought that if they couldn't see us, then they were invisible.

I feel invisible a lot of the time. About half the time, I dislike it. The other half, I prefer it.

I feel invisible all the time. No one hears me when I say anything. People seem to think I sneak up on them all the time, but that is never my intention. They are just suddenly suprised that I am there. At this point I just feel that the person I pretend to be is real and that I am not.

At home my mom asks me "Do you want pork"

"No"

"So just get the pork chops ready. I will show you how to season them."

"I know how to season them"

"Ok come over here so I can show you how."

That part of it gets really annoying. But alot of times I like it. At work people are less likely to talk to me. And I just really like to watch people. I just like to watch them and just study them you know. And I feel like my dream I guess is to be everywhere at once and nothing at the same time. Not like a ghost, but just a purely corpreal being that sees everything. Like I could be in the middle of a desert somewhere and see a single shooting star which no one in the whole world has seen but me. Just all the little things that no one sees. I don't know. I want to try to write a story about it, but I really don't know how I will go about it. But being this is what I would rather be than go to heaven. The traditional idea of heaven really doesn't appeal to me.

I like to study people too, but I have to be careful. It seems I'm suddenly very visible to them, when they think I'm staring. Irony!

Do you like reality shows? I don't like the ones that think they have to be salacious in order to get viewers. I'm not into all that. Most reality television has been ruined by it. I used to like The Real World and Big Brother, but that was before they changed them. I just like to watch the psychological aspect -- why people act the way they do, which ones are accepted the most, etc. I still watch Survivor, Amazing Race (if I find the people interesting), Little People Big World, Deadliest Catch, So You Think You Can Dance, Project Runway, and sometimes American Idol. For some reason, when the show gets wildly popular, I'm less interested. I guess, like you, I prefer the idea that I know something that everyone else doesn't.

sometimes i go out for some meeting a bit earlier and watch the people going around while waiting. but i am more careful about watching people in smaller groups of friends or colleagues. some told me that i stare at people. i had hard time to believe i did

I used to feel invisible a lot when I was a child, I even sometimes found it hard to believe I actually was a real person in real life. I have been like a ghost for a very long time, sometimes I still feel like that.

There are not many people in this world who question their own existence, nice to know that I'm not alone.

Wait a minute...am I talking to myself again?

If you study people, you must look at them from the corners of your eyes. Hold a book or paper or a journal and pen and nobody will know that you are actually watching them.

I'm a teacher and students in my class talk with each other about anything because they think I don't pay attention. Sometimes I forget that when I hear them asking each other questions about the lessons and I answer it. They never expected me to have heard them talking.

Yeah, I like certain ones. I don't really watch American Idol or So You Think You Can Dance really. Probably because I am a bit turned off by really popular stuff. I only watch the first few episodes of bad or singers dancers then I drop it. But I really like the shows where the people are trying to get a certain job. Like America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, Shear Genius ect. Something where the people have to use their professional skills and such. And the interaction with their competition and all that. I also like to see all the work behind something. I wonder alot about what goes behind certain things.

But have you ever seen Lost, the reality show. That was my favorite reality show ever, but it only showed for one season or set. It happened before 911, but the thing was that a group of people were dropped off somewhere in the world, and they have to find out the country and find a way back to the United States with just about nothing. It was so cool. Like some people were lucky to find someone in a small Cambodian village that could speak english and such. I remember one group ended up homeless in Russia while another group like got a job on a cruise ship and stuff. It was really interesting seeing people be so inventive in such hard circumstances.

Oh I also liked Murder in Small Town X. That was cool too.