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derealization
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derealization /de·re·al·i·za·tion/ (de-re″al-ĭ-za´shun) a loss of the sensation of the reality of one's surroundings.
de·re·al·i·za·tion (d-r-l-zshn)
n.
The feeling that things in one's surroundings are strange, unreal, or somehow altered, as seen in schizophrenia.

Derealization
A dissociative symptom in which the external environment is perceived as unreal.

derealization
Psychiatry An altered and unreal perception of things and objects in space/time, which may be accompanied by depersonalization. See Hallucination.

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Q. If the lie is our truth & living the truth feels fake & unreal how do we persevere to the needed chang there's the real me, good & underdeveloped. there is the worldly me, challenged as all of us probably are. there is the addict me, afflicted half or more of my life, developed & strong. two out of three are tough odds to deal with...

A. the battle against your own self is harsh and there will be casualties. reality is based on your own definition of the world around you, but it also based on how the world defines you. this is your escape from the inner struggle- define yourself and your actions not by your own faulty judgment but by how the world and it's moral judge you.
good luck.

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In The Architectural Uncanny, Anthony Vidler notes that, for Freud, "unhomeliness" was more than a simple sense of not belonging; it was the fundamental propensity of the familiar to turn on its owners, suddenly to become defamiliarised or derealised, "as if in a dream".
 
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