PAD comes and goes for me as well... deep meditation on the movie by myself brings it back... and in a way I sort of like it. I don't really have it when I'm with my friends from High School or my friends when I'm at college, but when I'm by myself and really meditate on the movie, and the experience that I've had, and the life changing experience Jake has... I still get chills, and shortness of breath from the movie (experience excuse me), my fire is still bright and intense for the movie. I remember a couple weeks ago I
drove past the theater and almost cried, remembering back to my first time seeing the life changing experience... I just wish I could meet with you all and just talk about Avatar all day (If not more).
Back to PAD, just like you said, the whole fact of my eyes being open to this terrible, cruel, disgusting, twisted, corrupted world, knowing the fact that (maybe) no other woman on this Earth could match up to Neytiri, knowing I could never be a Na'vi and live with the Omaticaya, knowing I'll never live as free as the Na'vi with their own clans and such. But I still try to look at the bright side of things; this Earth still has beautiful nature and scenery, there still are people very loving in this world (you all are proof of that, and there are people outside of here that are loving as well), maybe my soul mate isn't as perfect as Neytiri, but she still has things that are still attractive to me...
I don't know if PAD will ever leave me, and in a way I hope it doesn't. It wasn't like my first time experiencing Avatar, with my sleepless nights and days filled with confusion, but it still affects me. The fact that I still get PAD is proof to me that I still am in extreme love with Avatar, and even if it does go, I'll still love Avatar either way