While in my mind the undertaker's office in all its detail was very vivid and clear, the town around it was fuzzy and grey, I walked through it because I had no choice. I wasn't thinking differently, inside my mind I was unchanged, the only difference was that now I demanded more room and hence I was excluding external reality.

karl ove knausgaard, Karl Ove Knausgaard - A Dea…, loc. 1524