Withdrawal from social life when ordinary connection became difficult
About a third of accounts describe significant withdrawal from social life, not always by choice. Conversations that previously felt natural become difficult when one's fundamental relationship to reality has changed and most people around you haven't.
Several accounts describe this as one of the loneliest aspects of the process: being changed in a way that was invisible to almost everyone else, unable to share what was happening without seeming strange or unwell.
I couldn't talk about it with my friends � my TM friends, and I again started to feel isolated and alone, like originally I had felt when I was the only one I knew having the oneness experience.
And I wanted to go out a lot more and meet up with friends and sort of socialize more and lots and lots of thoughts.
So this authenticity can come through, and relationships you do form, I find, are just through people that resonate, people that-- you don't feel a need to be friends with people in order to get somewhere and validate them.
It took a few months, but I spent a few months alone walking the dog in the morning and eventually new friends accumulated.