That's what it feels like, although I cannot say I've ever had experience with even other planets before my arrival here. So the difference is... perhaps academic. Although encountering people who ought to be familiar to me and yet aren't...

[ He trails off with a sad smile. ]

Well, it does leave marks, doesn't it? But... there are worlds where gods are very real and others where they are dead - or never existed at all. Others where there are demons and others where those are mere figments of imagination. It's strange, isn't it?