All of this is really helpful. Waco I agree that there is some strange ego-driven fear that I feel particularly sensitive to after light/ macrobiotic eating. To some extent it may be HPPD because I suddenly get the tendency to zone out, look into space and become fixated in a 'feeling' while colors intensify and sometimes dust particles in the air become very sharp and sometimes when i'm moving objects have tracers. None of this matters as much as the feeling that I'm cold and shivering and very alone. If I'm with other people I feel very seperate from them. All of our connections as friend-to-friend and parent-to-daughter disappear and suddenly everything feels like an empty shell.

When I used to get these feelings on pot or on hallucinogens (though don't get the wrong idea, I was not a heavy user - I used them 3 times) it was expected but I'm just surprised the feelings are coming back on the new shift in my diet.

It's most potent though when I'm alone or before I fall asleep. Also thanks for the bit about hypoglycemia, I've never heard of it. I don't have diabetes though and don't know of any reason that I would have heavy metal toxicity but I certainly will try to eat more protein.

-m