{"id":768,"date":"2026-07-28T05:59:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/astronauts-observer-sensation-the-feeling-of-watching-their-own-lives-from-a-half-step-outside-the-frame-jet-lag-of-the-self\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T05:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:59:28","slug":"astronauts-observer-sensation-the-feeling-of-watching-their-own-lives-from-a-half-step-outside-the-frame-jet-lag-of-the-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/astronauts-observer-sensation-the-feeling-of-watching-their-own-lives-from-a-half-step-outside-the-frame-jet-lag-of-the-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts \u2018observer&#8217; sensation \u2014 the feeling of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame, \u2018jet-lag of the self\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Crew members talk about feeling slightly delayed in conversations. They report a doubled awareness \u2014 being present while also watching themselves be present. Some say it feels like the first week of a new job that never quite ends. Others compare it to jet lag of the self.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s own post-flight reflections from station crews describe the sensation in plainer language: home feels staged. Smells are too sharp. Gravity feels theatrical. The brain, which spent half a year recalibrating for a world without down, treats the familiar as something to be studied rather than inhabited.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/spacedaily.com\/sd-v-astronauts-returning-from-six-month-missions-describe-a-persistent-observer-sensation-the-feeling-of-watching-their-own-lives-from-a-half-step-outside-the-frame-weeks-after-theyr\/\">spacedaily.com\/sd-v-astronauts-returning-from-six-month-missions-describe-a-persistent-observer-sensation-the-feeling-of-watching-their-own-lives-from-a-half-step-outside-the-frame-weeks-after-theyr\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crew members talk about feeling slightly delayed in conversations. They report a doubled awareness \u2014 being present while also watching themselves be present. Some say it feels like the first week of a new job that never quite ends. Others compare it to jet lag of the self. NASA\u2019s own post-flight reflections from station crews [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,37,181,180],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-consciousness","tag-neuroscience","tag-self-observation","tag-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}