'Nor could I ever after see the world as I had known it. 
Mixed with the present scene was always a little of the past and a little of the future, 
and every once-familiar object loomed alien in the new perspective brought 
by my widened sight. From then on I walked in a fantastic dream of unknown 
and half-known shapes; and with each new gateway crossed, the less plainly 
could I recognise the things of the narrow sphere to which I had so long 
been bound.'
                                                                                                                  
                                                                           -H.P. Lovecraft, The Book