...the massive influx of impressions is so great; surprising, barbaric, and violent things press so overpoweringly- "balled up into hideous clumps"-in the youthful soul; that it can save itself only by taking recourse in premeditated stupitidy.
-Nietzsche

there is real real: you fall down the stairs
Observed real: you drive by a car wreck
real unreal: Robo-pets
Convertly unreal realistic: Hair in shampoo ads. More or less undetectable digital effects
Unreal real: Strawberries that won't freeze because they have fish genes in them

Rather 'numbing'.
(am I allowed to drive, in traffic and read Harper's?)