Surreal

Surreal has the ability to enter in creature's minds altering the perception of the ambience also known as depersonalization disorder. This disorder consist of a persistent or recurrent experiences (episodes) of feeling detached from one’s surroundings, mental processes, or body (feeling like one is in a dream, or as if one is looking at themselves as an outside observer).

In the case of depersonalization, the individual may feel detached from his or her entire being (“I am no one,” “I have no self”). He or she may also feel subjectively detached from aspects of the self, including feelings (hypoemotionality: “I know I have feelings but I don’t feel them”), thoughts (“My thoughts don’t feel like my own,” “head filled with cotton”), whole body or body parts, or sensations (touch, proprioception, hunger, thirst, libido). There may also be a diminished sense of agency (feeling robotic, like an automaton; lacking control of one’s speech or movements).

Episodes of derealization are characterized by a feeling of unreality or detachment from, or unfamiliarity with, the world, be it individuals, inanimate objects, or all surroundings. The individual may feel as if he or she were in a fog, dream, or bubble, or as if there were a veil or a glass wall between the individual and world around. Surroundings may be experienced as artificial, colorless, or lifeless. Derealization is commonly accompanied by subjective visual distortions, such as blurriness, heightened acuity, widened or narrowed visual field, two-dimensionality or flatness, exaggerated three-dimensionality, or altered distance or size of objects, termed macropsia or micropsia.

During the depersonalization or derealization experience, the creature remains somewhat in touch with their present reality.