-   offtides
-  adj. beginning to suspect that you're living in a bizarre alternate reality, as if you had stumbled into a shimmering "What if?" thought bubble that somehow kept going, episode after episode. 
-  After off, the state of being not quite normal or sane + offsides, a sports offense in which you find yourself on the wrong side at the wrong moment + tides, the normal ebb and flow of time. 
