Reality Mirroring Fiction

It's been a slow couple of weeks, so there's not much to talk about, but I've noticed a certain trend that I want to contemplate.

I've been memorizing Christopher Durang's Baby With the Bathwater in anticipation of rehearsals, which will begin in a week (remember I'm playing the crazy mother, Helen). Though I've only gotten through the first act, it seems like I'm reliving half of the stuff that goes on. Example: my parents were bickering one day, and they used THREE lines from the scene where Helen and John are arguing. Also (slightly unrelated?) I found myself switching moods radically one afternoon, quite similar to Helen's bipolar tendencies.

The point of a good play is that it draws us into a new world, while forcing us to contemplate our own realities (or something like that). But do I want my world to slip into the bathwater? I don't think so. Those people are nuts.