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Well, I'm a sailor and raising the waterline is a bad thing. You're underwater when the waterline gets too high.
The analogy here would clearly be raising the waterline of the body of water upon which you are floating. And since you are, in fact, floating the waterline has no direct effect on you.
The lesson here is that much of the gain from having raising the sanity waterline is that for those impressive minds that excel, or stay slightly ahead of the pack, the raised sanity waterline pushes them ever further in achievement and sanity.
It's possible that we could benefit from a better metaphor. What we really mean is raising the baseline rationality level, but perhaps we can find a more vivid way to say it.