Do you ever wonder if this is actually real?

[DressingGownofDoom]

I keep thinking maybe I'm having a mental breakdown and suffering from delusions. This is actually happening isn't it? It feels like it's not really happening but it is.

I've been following covid since January. I thought I was prepared. I knew this might come. But now it's here, I literally can't believe it's happening.

It is surreal.

I was surprised by how well everyone is taking all of this, but I don't think the enormity of the situation has really hit people yet.

People are still picking up their avocados and ordering fire pits for their gardens. As they should be, I guess. There's no point in dwelling on the negatives. But it is all a bit mad.

I know what you mean. It's like a nightmare you think you are going to wake up from, but it's all too real. I don't think it's really sunk in yet. Since January I've been gradually stocking up on supplies, I've been preparing for this, but now it's here it just seems surreal and I can't quite get my head around it.

No. It feels very real. It’s not even (in my head) the kind of unreal stuff that your head starts writing the screenplay of as you watch.

I think it’s the mixture of horror and tedium that is making me absorb it a bit too easily.

I wouldn’t mind feeling kind of shocked and unbelieving like you do TBH.

Actually, I remember reading something so worrying about the utter inevitably of this eventually happening (sometime around the swine flu scare) that I believed it would come.

I was in such a low-pay, single-parent, big-city, no-car, hand-to-mouth, small children situation then. Maybe I’m just grateful to be in a two adult, bigger children, stocked larder, new-car, better-resourced situation now that it has actually hit.

Clearly there’s something wrong with my reaction, though. Thanks for making me realise

Yes, I sometimes wake in the morning and wonder if it is real or did I dream it. Very strange feeling.

I also genuinely woke up yesterday and thought I'd been having a very odd dream. And of course, I hadn't!

Shit just got real (er)

I had a lovely dream that my local corner shop had flour - I remember feeling so excited! It did not come true..

I had a dream last night about going to Sainsbury's and seeing toilet paper on the shelves.

It's like the worst nightmare I've not been able to wake up from.

Last week I managed mentally, this morning I can't get out of bed