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I met Buddy at a conference for people working with folks who dissociate and I told him that I thought hed left out an element: a W that stands for Will. Buddy Braun, a psychiatrist, came up with the BASK model of dissociation, pointing out that a person could disconnect from their behavior, affect, sensations, or knowledge (thus BASK)or any combination of these. Another difference is the structure of experience. People for whom dissociation is not a major issue usually continue to know who they are, where they are, and their internal arguing is self-contained. The difference between these and having another personality is degree and distance. There are some big implications here in terms of religion, but Im not going there. In fact, research in the 90s showed that people who were dissociative had more charismatic or spirit-filled experiences. Dissociation is fundamentally akin to trance states, as when people are lifted outside of themselves in spiritual experiences. Those times you get so sucked into a movie or game that someone has to lob a Nerf ball at you to get your attention? Or maybe when youre reading a great book and look up to realize its dark outside and the last time you checked was noon? Or maybe youre an athlete, and you get in the Zone sometimes where everything just flows.Those are all dissociative moments non-pathological ones. When youre driving down the road and you suddenly realize you missed your exit or maybe youre not quite sure where it is because you developed the white line trance youre dissociating.