"It's a psycho-sensory crossover," Aris said, backing away, fumbling for the sedative kit on his belt. "Your brain is confusing sensory inputs. FLAV-303 makes everything feel like a reward signal. You can't trust your eyes, your ears, or your stomach."

Aris looked at her, his eyes widening behind his goggles. "Oh god. You’re dosed."

The transition began in earnest with the Modernist movement. Writers like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce abandoned the safe, distant narrator in favor of "stream of consciousness." In this mode, the reader is thrust into the messy, unedited thoughts of a character. This change was significant because it acknowledged that human experience is not collective, but deeply isolated. By focusing on the internal monologue, literature began to mirror the psychological complexities being explored by contemporaries like Sigmund Freud, suggesting that our "reality" is merely a collection of sensory perceptions.