- The term "lunatic" derives from the Latin word lunaticus, which originally referred mainly to epilepsy and madness, as diseases thought to be caused by the moon.

- Insanity.

- Intermittent insanity, formerly believed tobe related to phases of the moon.

- Extreme foolishness or an instance of it.

-Unsoundness of mind sufficient to incapacitate one for civil transactions: a former legal term.

On those nights the water was very calm, so silvery it looked like mercury, and the fish in it, violet-colored, unable to resist the Moon's attraction, rose to the surface, all of them, and so did the octopuses and the saffron medusas.

I'm not crazy - my reality is just different from yours.

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Lunacy is a mental order which leads to a distorted perception of the external world. The individual reality it produces deviates from the observations of the majority and imposes a new order onto the environment.