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"for a while everything seemed a little different and *wrong*"
I would say the problem lies, not in going mad, but in not going mad /enough/.
You're achieving a different manner of perception of the world around you, but you're hanging on to your perceptions about how you /should/ be seeing the world, and it's causing cognitive dissonance as what you expect isn't what you get.
The trick is to let go of your preconceptions about how things "should" be and just accept what you're seeing and hearing.
An oft-quoted maxim among my peer group is
"If you feel yourself falling into madness... dive."
If, of course, you don't want to commit fully to this new world-view, or fear losing the ability to relate to your more "normal" friends and family.. the answer is not to hold back, as you've been doing, but do as Mordant suggested and compartmentalize. Set a beginning and ending to your time in this new perception, and then dive in full-bore, confident that when the end comes, you can go back to seeing things normally. |
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