Do you get 'disconnected' from your body?

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When there's a lot of sensory stimuli, my proprioception gets weird. If I can't see my legs in that kind of situation, I often stamp my feet so my brain will kind of "know" what my lower limbs are doing.

I was in a noisy place today, and I had to talk to someone. My speech came out a bit weird because I kind of "lost track" of what my mouth and tongue were doing, even though I felt touch sensations just fine.

Does anyone else feel that way?

This post has made me recall an experience that happened to me once. A friend of mine had invited me to his house to play tennis on his parents' new tennis court one day after school. I had played very little, if any, tennis. But I had played badminton, so I thought I had a grip on the game. I caught on fairly well for a beginner I guess. Although I was use to physical activity including bowling, the moves in tennis were different. After a few games, my parents picked me up and I returned home quite tired. That evening as I was sitting in the living room, I began feeling a nagging pain in my stomach. Expecting the muscular pain to go away, it got worse and worse and worse. My parents and I knew the reason had been the tennis, so none of us was overly concerned. I decided to sleep in the chair that night. The muscular pain in my stomach prevented me from getting to sleep, but I was so weary that I eagerly needed to sleep. I could barely hold my eyes open. And then it happened. Sitting there, I literally felt myself leave my body and drift into space. I felt like I had drifted through the air in the living room and entered the realm of the planets. I saw before my eyes Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn as I flew past them. Deeper into the Solar System I drifted, while still maintaining a visual hold upon the living room's furnishings. It was like I was in both the living room and space at the same time in the semi-darkened environment of the living room. Then I floated back into myself and was aware of myself in the living room again, but now I was quite nauseated and hurting worse in the stomach. It was now after midnight and I told Mom and Dad how bad I felt. They drove me to the emergency room where it was determined I had a pulled abdominal muscle. I was given medicine for the pain. After returning home I was able to sleep. The following morning I felt back to normal except for a little fatigue from my lack of sleep.

^ Some people have what's called "out-of-body experiences" after extreme physical exertion.

This happens mostly when performing. It is like reforming and watching myself at the same time.
During a song of Praise & Worship I noticed the violin solo and thought that was really nice
I looked at the violin player and noticed he wasn't playing it was me on the harmonica. I
Stopped playing harmonica to listen and the " violin" music stopped. The harmonics of a well played harp (harmonica ) is similar to a violin.

I was giving this more thought after I made my previous post. Often times when I think back on childhood memories, I recall the memories not from the eyes of me, but from a perspective of something like a camera lens looking in on me.

It's called depersonalization.
Happens to me lots. A weird and unsettling experience.

I'm not sure if it is related but I'm also researching and using lucid dreaming.

I thought that was completely normal.
There were a few times when I felt a little disconnected from my body usually due to stress/sensory overload but aside from that I never thought I was particularly prone to out of body experiences.
Basically all my memories that include me actively doing something are not what my eyes saw back then just like I see me when I dream instead of seeing what my eyes would see.

I know that experience. I´ve been told, that it is a "pre-psychotic" dissociative symptom, that aspies can develop under certain conditions - but it doesn´t lead to psychosis. It is only a temporary defence.

I had that type of experience this morning. It was like I was dreaming and I was laughing my head off and talking crazy talk to myself. I was able to stabilize myself by having something to eat and listening to my favourite music.

This has happened to me when an excruciatingly loud noise is heard, unexpectedly----or, when an extremely piercing, pain-inducing, bright light is seen. If I'm talking, it's like the OP said, I have a disconnect and start talking like a drunk person (slurring / stammering, etc.), and my mouth doesn't move the way I'm directing it----or, the way I WANT to direct it, is probably better-stated, and I forget what I'm saying.

It's sorta like..... If you could imagine that there's another you inside you (maybe, one could argue that it's "one's soul"), and when there's a bright light / loud sound, it's like that inside person falls-down (I actually feel like something drops-down inside of me----I guess it's that your blood pressure drops, like when you faint, except you don't faint), and I have to wait 'til they get-back on their feet, before I can function, again.

Unfortunately, an out of body experience is not what I meant. I meant that I sort of "forget" I have legs or a mouth and I can't tell very well how I am moving them. Like certain wires got temporarily disconnected from my brain.

Though I have had out-of-body moments.

In my dreams I do, does that count???

Sure.

After a period of body therapy many years ago, I suddenly lost sense of my body several times - walking in the street. I had to look down in order to know, where I put my feet.
Sometimes I felt the chair being pulled away under me. Once I actually fell down from the chair at a guitar concert Someone had to escort me out and away, because I laughed hysterically. Nervous. Very embarrassing.

Among other disorders, I also have BPD, although undiagnosed. But yeah, I often find myself looking at myself when I'm doing something odd, like breaking into buildings, climbing fences, etc. My mind says, "Hey Robin, you know what you're doing is crazy, right?" Then another part of my brain says, "Mind your business and just watch my six."