A friend had a breakdown

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62. The "in the know" concept of alternate an reality has always fascinated me.

I must consider reality, the heavy one; a dose of which may knock one to the floor, to be largely consensus based. A selection of sensed data held together by mutual interpretation, acceptance and custom. How curious, after all, the definition of madness boils down to a refusal to accept the facts of one's environment as dictated by the senses. For as we compare information about our environment gathered by any number of the 5 senses we may concur that it makes good sense and if a concept has no logical place, we concur it is senseless. This mixing of the physical and the intellectual, the material and the spiritual takes place in a world where we sense each other's emotions. If it's confusing, it's no wonder, nor is it nonsense. It's a discussion about a species that spends a third of it's time sleeping and dreaming in order to survive.