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Zachary Young8 said:How exactly are you supposed to wrap your head around an illness when your only exposure to it has been through some dry encyclopedia entry or a segment on the nightly news?
If you actually look closely at what was said earlier... it’s already familiar to you. You saw it in a book or on TV once. Your brain just works in these weird, subconscious ways, connecting those old bits of information with physical sensations you're feeling right now. Then, suddenly, it feels like a "vision" or a dream. It’s not that you actually dreamed it; it’s more like your mind is creating this illusion that it came from a dream state. It happens more often than people realize, though most don't give it a second thought. We all have those moments where we suddenly remember something we vaguely knew before... the brain is good at storing fragments, even if it doesn't always serve them up to your conscious mind in a way that makes sense...