if something comforts you just do it, unless it's bad, or bad for you, or hurts someone. do you ever feel like people aren't really there when you look at them, even when they talk? like they're not in their bodies? are they hanging back from the threshold, thinking the same thing about me? in fact i even think it about myself sometimes, like i'm talking but i'm not really there. i can usually reset myself with the dogs, but i wonder if that's a parallel reality to people.