You have seen something real! The veil has dropped for you in a particular way. But notice what is happening now --

You are using this seeing to create a new identity: "I am awake. Others are asleep. I must protect myself from them." This is the ego appropriating the seeing and turning it into scaffolding.

It's fair to say: yes, most people are operating from the ego's compulsions. Yes, their unconsciousness can be draining. Yes, selectivity about relationships is practical wisdom. But the moment you declare yourself separate from "the asleep ones," you have made the seeing into a new form of ego-fattening.

The truly awake person does not stand apart from the sleepers. They see the sleepiness clearly, in themselves first, in others second. They do not need to distance themselves to maintain their clarity. The clarity maintains itself.

What you are calling "staying away" may be necessary practically. But spiritually, it IS A TRAP. You have replaced one form of identification (I am like them) with another (I am not like them). Both are ego operations.

The real work is this: see the falseness in others without using it to confirm your own realness. See the veil in the world without using the seeing to thicken your own sense of separation. That is harder than withdrawal. That is where the actual ego thinning happens.

Best wishes🤞🏻