[s6e17] Normal Again -

After being stung by a "waxy demon" summoned by the Trio (Warren, Andrew, and Jonathan), Buffy begins hallucinating a reality where she is a patient in a psychiatric hospital. In this alternate world:

: Coming after the trauma of her resurrection earlier in Season 6, the asylum world represents a seductive escape for Buffy—a world where her mother is alive and she has no heavy responsibilities. Her choice to return to Sunnydale is a tragic acceptance of her difficult life as a Slayer. [S6E17] Normal Again

" Normal Again " (Season 6, Episode 17) is widely considered one of the most psychologically haunting episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer . It challenges the fundamental reality of the series by suggesting that Sunnydale, the Hellmouth, and the Slayer herself are all the elaborate delusions of a mentally ill girl in a Los Angeles asylum. After being stung by a "waxy demon" summoned