Chris,
I experience those symptoms, they usually clear up by the fifth or sixth day. I wouldn't call it "psychosis" though as that suggests hallucinations/delusions. But it's definitely an altered mental state.
I have a couple of stories about this state:
I still live with my parents and my little sister. Once when I was napping from having a bad episode my mother came in my room woke me up and asked me to go pick up my sister from school. Her school is about ten minutes away and lets out at 4:00. Well, instead of driving to her school I drove all the way to her dance class... 45 minutes away! I went in the building and looked around for her and couldn't find her. Then I waited around for a few minutes thinking she was probably in the bathroom or changing. After about ten minutes I go outside and realize what time it was and finally it clicks that my mother had asked me to get her from "school" and not "dance class". Mind you, It wasn't that I didn't hear what she had said, I remembered what she had said, it was that for some reason I didn't process it right. I had to call my mom and apologize and she had to go get her.
Another time I went to the Sawgrass Mall in Coral Springs. It's a BIG mall and I knew that I wasn't with it that evening so I tried to be careful. I parked in one of the very first spots so I wouldn't have to look for my car. I walked in right in between two expensive stores (it was a Neiman Marcus and another store I don't remember anymore). As I walked in I made a mental note of the stores as I passed between them. Then when I was inside the mall corridor there was a map right in front of the entrance I just took and I took a look at it. Each section of the mall had its own assigned color on the map so I remembered the color of the section that I entered in.
After an hour or so of walking around I decided to leave. Despite being intentionally careful I still ended up not being able to find my car! I remembered the color of the mall section (it's been a couple of years now but I believe it was blue) and looked for it on a map. I walked to where the map seemed to say that section was. Then I looked for the Neiman Marcus. I couldn't find it! I walked around, checked another map and again couldn't find the store or my entrance! I spent a good hour like this walking around in circles. I walked along the inside of the mall, I walked around the outside of the mall. I couldn't find the stupid store or my car. It was getting dark and the mall was closing so finally I called my father to come get me and help me find my car. At this point I was starting to doubt my sanity, thinking there was no Neiman Marcus and I had somehow confused the name of the store. My dad drives me around for a minute and... we find the Neiman Marcus with my car right in between it and another fancy store exactly as I had thought I remembered. I swear it fealt like leaving the twilight zone. The only thing I can think is that I was so out of it that I wasn't reading the maps right and I kept going to the wrong spot. That was some of the worst confusion I've had -I felt like an old person with dementia!
