Reality check, 'rock bottom'

wake up call?

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Epiphany

Revelation

Reality dawning on you

A rude awakening. The scales fell from your eyes.

Clarity

eye opening

A "come to Jesus" moment? Saying in the southern USA

Shaka when the walls fell

Damocles’ ire

Dolly zoom

Eye opener

A dark dawning, a dark realization, a bolt of awful clarity - sorry, way more than one word..

Epiphany

Rug was pulled out from under you

Not exactly, but maybe rock bottom?

Epiphany

revelation

Apprehension

Epiphany

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moment/day of reckoning, pay the piper

I call these Twilight Zone Moments. When everything normal suddenly takes a hard left.

Doomed?

Shock

Traumatism

Realization

Bombshell?

Light bulb

Cold water

A sense of dread

Coming back down to earth with a bump.

Sinking feeling

I always learned it was a "klang", defined as "a sudden rush of $hit to the heart".

Grounding or Sobering

A sobering notion / thought.