5 ideas
Kamala, a middle-aged Delhi housewife long treated as a domestic fixture by her self-absorbed husband Ramnath, wakes one day convinced she is a planet. She sheds her sari, finds tiny beings living on her skin, and prepares to leave, while her husband can read the change only as madness or embarrassment. The case shows how the least-noticed person in a household can turn out to hold a whole world the others never saw.
Take a figure of speech about a marginalised person, such as 'she is his whole world' or 'she carries everyone', and make it literally true. The fantastic event then works as a diagnostic. How the people around her fail to register it measures how little they perceived her before.
A place is not one present moment but a stack of its pasts and possible futures sharing the same ground. A character who involuntarily sees these other eras, such as the man in the story 'Delhi' who glimpses people from centuries apart, turns the city into a record of every life lived and yet to be lived there. Seeing the city this way dissolves the idea that the current moment is the only real one.
What a mind can think is bounded by the tools and apparatus it thinks through. Change the machine and you change the set of thinkable ideas, not just the speed of thinking. A device that alters cognition is therefore a device that alters reality as its users can know it.
Placing an ordinary, constrained life against planetary or cosmic scales usually implies insignificance. Here the effect is reversed: the vast frame reveals the ordinary person as containing depths, connections and life equal to the cosmos. Scale shift becomes a way of granting worth, not removing it.