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Sometimes I realize everything is real
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Is there a word for this?
I have these moments too and it feels really sublime as a sense of beautiful terror.
I believe it could just be "awe" or "awestruck" with it's roots in both awesome and awful. Though the context of the modern usage of "awe" is maybe not quite right.
The specific context here would be closer to breaking free of the simulacrum of the hyperreal (media, digital life, and our daily work) and seeing reality as it is. I'm not sure that there is a single word for this combined concept and feeling, though it would be a good one to know.
The hyperreal concept is interesting, though I admittedly don't know much about it.