Many people are calling expensive numbers for Bitcoin even before. So no mate. What Bitcoin is showing lately has not exceeded on most people's expectations yet. Maybe it is only if Bitcoin gains a hundred k or more in its value in just a month. Those who sold their Bitcoins cheaply and then knowing it rose eventually can obviously feel a regret and disappointment but the emotions were seem unimaginable for those who are early Bitcoiners who does the same mistake. Maybe you are only new here OP, for you to say 'surreal'.
A heavy dump in the price can indeed be a pain for others but I think they can still move on eventually and start adding more coins on their bags. This is also the first action that some are going to do. They don't feel pain in short but I won't say they are happy because a dip is still a dip and makes everyone else portfolio to be negative. Maybe there are only exceptions if you are among those OG's where you bought your Bitcoins at under a dollar rate. Long-term investing requires patience but this isn't only the way to make money. For the others, maybe patience is not prioritized but it can now be skills, knowledge, and guts, (only to name a few).
Honestly it's definitely a good period to be alive, yes most of the veterans here we knew that it would go up, and this wasn't really a shock to us, we knew it would go up and we made some profit from it and that's a good feeling. However, that doesn't mean that we just don't count this as a win, even when we know what's going to happen, if it makes us profit then we should be happy about it and I am quite happy with what we have so far, it's a great feeling and should be something to be proud of.
I believe that bitcoin going to 100k levels, and even more very soon, is something I can see from months away, but I am also happy that I am right. Sometimes we have expectations but those expectations do not happen and we are sad because of it, so we should learn to be happy about it when our expectations are met with correct increases and we make money from them. I am happy that it's up now, I knew it would be and what I am happy about is being right and not being wrong.