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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bodhi" data-source="post: 1932462" data-attributes="member: 19770">I will now use several hundred words to describe just how indescribable a particular horror is. Also, I am so terrified, I will spend my last few minutes of life writing about my terror so someone can find my blood-soaked journal. I will inspire the creation of the Castle of Aaaargh.That being said, I like the explanation that also shows up in Kult. The more you understand the true nature of reality, the more other ("normal") people think you're insane because the truth is so different from what we think. Sort of the flipside of what others have already said, from your viewpoint, it's not that you're going insane, you're becoming sane in an insane world that denies the truth.Another way of looking at it is that SAN loss, at least early on, doesn't necessarily indicate mental dysfunction, but rather a belief in something that the world denies. An otherwise perfectly mundane civilized adult who professes a belief in Santa Claus will be thought of as an eccentric, humoring the children, or perhaps overly holiday-spirited. The same individual who then explains that Santa is a construct of the Elder Gods, and that what he's really doing is seeking out naughty children for soul-sucking psychic surgery to turn them into Mythos cultists, will probably not be thought of so generously.</blockquote>