On my drive up to PV today, I listened to a podcast in which the guest, a professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at UC Berkeley, explained how elements from the dream state can bleed into waking life without complete and restful sleep. This made me wonder how many people currently walk around and exist in varying degrees of an altered reality.
An hour or so later, I made it to my uncle and aunt's house. As soon as the first glass of wine was poured and downed, the incredible smell of 보쌈 cooking in the kitchen overtook all of my senses and the aforementioned issue seemed no longer significant.