- 20.03.2025
Blurring the Lines Between Reality and Illusion
The sensation of the world's unreality can be explained as the emergence of a state in which the boundary between ordinary perception of reality and elements of fantasy or dream-like experience becomes displaced, resulting in a simultaneous perception of the world as both real and unreal. For example, in one described state, when “the indistinct frontier between wakefulness and dreaming has been erased,” a person finds themselves in a mixed state where fantasy and objectivity are indistinguishable. This is experienced as a simultaneous feeling of reality and unreality, that is, an experience where the difference between the external world and inner imagination becomes blurred (source: 1386_6927.txt).
