Whether you’re awake to it or not, you and your environment are the same thing. That border where you think you end and not-you begins is only in your head. Dreamer, dreamt and dreamstate are one. This is what we discover when we make the transition to adulthood by undergoing the belated second-stage birth process. Self and dreamstate are one. That doesn’t become true when you realize it, it’s true right now. If your environment is toxic and distorted, you are toxic and distorted. You might not notice it, the way a fish might not notice water, but that doesn’t make it less true.