Sam Perkins, a retired teacher, feels that he is living in a dream and that the people he meets in everyday life and the neighborhood where he lives are not real. A clinical psychiatrist will describe such a condition as

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Sam's belief that the people in his everyday life and the neighborhood where he lives are not real is an example of derealization, which is a dissociative symptom characterized by a feeling of detachment from one's surroundings or a sense that the world is unreal or dreamlike.

Sam Perkins, a Retired Teacher, Feels That He Is Living