I keep reading about collective derealization, and honestly, it tracks. Carl Jung talked about how the collective unconscious absorbs cultural stress, but modern cognitive psychology frames it more like a mass cognitive bias under chronic overload. When our nervous systems are fried, the brain starts filtering out sensory input just to protect itself. It’s not magic; it’s basically a blown fuse in the perception wiring. Jung called it shadow work, but researchers like Richard Davidson would probably call it sensory gating breakdown. Either way, the mechanism feels identical.

That’s where the simulation hypothesis creeps into my head. I don’t actually believe we’re in a computer program, but the metaphor is surprisingly useful. If reality is processing too much trauma, does it drop frames? Tarot has been mirroring this for me lately. I keep pulling The Moon, and it’s not just about illusion—it’s about the fog of misperception when the subconscious is running hot. The Tower doesn’t just show destruction; it shows the sudden collapse of a structure that was never stable to begin with. When I run my own chart calculations (I’m pretty obsessive about ephemeris precision, I approach astrology like debugging code), I notice heavy Saturn squares to the 12th house. That’s classic structural fatigue. The system is tired.

I know this probably sounds like overthinking, and maybe it is. But if we’re all feeling this derealization, maybe it’s not a bug. Maybe it’s a forced system update. I’ve been leaning into energy healing practices to ground the static, and honestly, it’s helped quiet the noise. Has anyone else noticed this buffering effect lately? Or am I just staring at my natal chart until it talks back to me?