Mine also. It is very poignant. I suppose for them the world feels less real because they have outgrown it and are now on some sort of guidance/rescue mission. Those that remain enmeshed in the world are still real to themselves though.

I also like Gurdjieffs take on responsibility.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. . . .
. . . Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep. . . .
. . . A man is responsible for his actions, a machine is not responsible.

— In Search of the Miraculous

This is a similar theme for Murakami:

“It’s all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It’s just as Yeats said: In dreams begin responsibility. Turn this on its head and you could say that where there’s no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise. Just as we see with Eichmann.”

― Haruki Murakami ~ Kafka on the Shore

The tenth man is an interesting tale. Indirect knowledge swirls around. It is not our own and can be easily displaced with some other indirect knowledge. Direct knowledge is something we have distilled and has become part of us.