I just realized something...

Reading through the threads, I kept thinking to myself, reality checks, whatever, I don't need them. But I was at work the other night, and I had a serious epiphany. Everything around me was... fluffy. I don't know how to explain it. You know what I mean--dream-like. My body and my miind felt supersensitive to everything. At first I thought I was suffering vertigo again, but then it hit me.

I couldn't tell whether I was dreaming or really there.

I got a little annoying, panicky feeling in my stomach. I ran to my coworker, a Wiccan friend of mine who wouldn't think I was a retard, and I asked her to be honest: Was I really there, or was I dreaming? She looked at me funny, and then she grinned. "If you're dreaming then I'm sharing it," she said. I laughed and calmed down a bit. I looked at a bunch of things around me, to see if anything was out of place. Everything in the lab was in its usual spot. The clock was ticking away (slowly, as usual) and everyone was going about their business. I looked at my friend and said, "If I am dreaming right now, I'll be so pissed!" She asked me why and I answered, "Because I don't want to work twice in one night!"

After a few minutes, I went back to my section of the lab and got back to work (developing all your naughty pictures ). It was so weird though. I've never had that happen quite so strongly before. It was like deja vu, which is actually quite common for me, but a bazillion times worse. So I thought about it: What was my reality check? What was it that made me finally realize which world I was in? Also, how do you all go about this in 'real life' and has anything like this ever happened to you (while you were awake?)