For me it means "A break with reality." I had auditory hallucinations and was very hyper going days and days and days without sleeping. erratic behavior, religious ideations and hard core paranoia.

But this was just the things that came along with my experience and I was definitely diagnosed with psychosis.

you become detached from reality.... often times it's like being in a world not shared with those around you... you can become delusional and think things like you are special .. i.e. the Queen of England... or Jesus.. or severely paranoid and think the TV is sending you messages and people are there waiting to get at you... visual and auditory hallucinations which can be persecutory in nature

however.... and this is my experience.... there is still the detachment from reality..... but the world is a beautiful place... everything connects with everything else... I am invincible.. I hear voices of Goddesses and Mother Earth..... I am supreme..... I suppose they could be called delusions.... but it is euphoric..... until it isn't.... then I get agitated and distressed and can be quite angry and aggressive and I can get quite paranoid.... sure people are conspiring against me.... that is the worst... that's when you need intervention before you do any damage if you haven't already done so.. and ofc this all comes with hindsight.... and sometime you have a big pot of blanks when it comes to your behaviour... and a massive amount of shame at things you can recall doing

altho similarities between people I think it is a very personal experience... well it has been for me.. but one that nobody wants to touch with a barge pole

My experiences have been similar to rubyblues.

Euphoric and celestial thinking.
Feels good , until it doesn't, then it's wretched

If you think you are reaching this stage, deff talk to your Pdoc

Something close to psychotic would be delusional, as in psychotic depression, believing I was dead and beginning to decay and the life force that sustains everything had stopped flowing in me because I was so broken. That was yucky.

Are you feeling ok?

For me it's the auditory hallucinations I have till this day. Nit all the time but sporadically. Before I started seroquel I used to get overly paranoid. I would get the feeling that there were cameras in my house and that people were watching me. I had to remind myself that this is not the truman show.

You become detached from reality. For me, I thought I was thinking clearly...and it make sense for me to run Stop signs in the hope I would hit a car. It was beyond awful. But I didn't know how bad off I was.

I thought I was in the movie "The Game" and everyone around me was conspiring against me. I was completely detached from everyone around me - didn't recognize them - didn't see myself the same way - thought I was reading minds and gathering data to plot against them back. I thought I could walk through walls....I didn't see where the day began and ended. I should have been hospitalized a LONG time before I was but - I wouldn't go...so my hubby waited and one day during a semi-lucid moment I said, "I think I need to go the hospital". That was that. A definitive break from reality as Nester originally said.