A Heightened Sense of Reality (Rant)

Is [title] even possible?
How can reality be more real?

I don't know.

According to Mr. Short, a heightened sense of reality is often instigated by adrenaline rushes, etc. Thus, your sensory perception is sharper, and chyeaaaaah. You feel and see things 'better'.

So, when I think of a 'heightened sense of reality', I think of photography.
High modality; low modality. (I really am in the mood for english. Haha.)
So on that end of the spectrum in question, there's the unrealistic, almost absurdly (for lack of a better word in my dodgy vocab) saturated colours- is that really realistic? Sure, it's artistic. (Teehee. On the note of art: my new favourite technical-ish, jargon-y word is 'visually arresting'. Ironic, cause it only really applies to art, which conventionally defies the notion of technology being repetitive, dull, uncreative, automated, etc. Actually, it's probably not even jargon; just a term coined by photo-critics. Anyyyyways. Massive tangent. I just think the word-phrase-whatever-thing is really cool, and won't make this rant even longer and tangetical than it already is by explaining why) But is it really realistic?

Isn't it like the same as exaggeration?

I guess you can't really exaggerate your senses, and perhaps in something like a novel, you only see the colours as more vivid as a character because of your 'heightened senses'? I dunno. And it just... Happens xD. You can't control your senses being sharpened or dull. (Transitive and intransitive! Lol. I still don't know which is which. But hey.)

Okay I am not making sense.

And I don't think I should go into the whole post-modern thing about 'what is reality'. ==;

I guess for everyone, reality is different. But hey, the most real thing of all seems to be right here, right now, and so I don't see why I had to write all that fluff (ref: above) to come to this conclusion. But that's how my weird train of thought goes o_O.

Moving on.
End rant.

Okay, on another note, why I started this whole rant in the first place was because I believe, on cloudy days especially, the sky looks flat, because the sky is so 3D and huge, yet the same colour-ish and so see through, that somehow it all smushes into one massive colour and background. I dunno what I'm talking about heh.

But Cath agrees with me :).

But yeah. I was thinking... So 3D that it looks flat? Which is the whole heightened reality thing!

Lol I'm so weird.