It's a lot easier to sleep through a disaster than wake up and deal with it, especially when you think it's not real, it doesn't really affect you, that there's nothing you can do about it or that it's just natural for things to get worse over time and that you just learn to deal with it as the new norm.

If your friends and family don't wake up to this, let them sleep, leave them behind and go fight alongside those who are also awake.