THE TRUMAN SHOW DELUSION [THE WORLD FEELS FALSE]

Falsus - Everything and Everyone is false including me. In 2008, psychiatrists Joel and Ian Gold formally documented and named it the "The Truman show delusion" Why?The patients believed they were the secret star of a hidden reality Tv show, with cameras in the wall, actors as their family and that their entire life is a script written for an audience.The movie came out in 1998, cases started to climb shortly after. One patient travelled to new York and tried to climb the statue of liberty believing that if he reached the top,he would break through the set and find the real world outside.Another stopped sleeping, when asked he replied " if I slept I would miss the show, I need to be awake for the ratings" A case that struck me is this one of a man in his 30s who became convinced that his wife was an actress hired to play his wife, he didn't confront her, he just kept asking questions only his "real" wife would know. She passed every test.He concluded that the producers had just done very thorough casting. There was no breaking through because every piece of evidence against delusion could be broken by delusion, these patients argued their case exclaimed the psychiatrists .Rene Descartes in the 1600s asked "How do you know reality is real"The Truman show delusion is this question turned into a disease. Researchers now think the delusion is mutating. Older cases we're about Tv shows, newer cases involve patients believing they're being Live streamed on YouTube or that they're the main character of someone's algorithm.In a world where people genuinely film their entire life for an audience - the line gets blurrier Before the Truman Show gave it a name, similar delusions existed under different frames. In the Cold War era, it was government surveillance. In the 80s, it was CIA cameras. The delusion is evolving toward AI. There are already documented cases of patients believing an AI is narrating their life, or that they're inside a simulation being run by a machine. One psychiatrist noted something deeply uncomfortable, some patients, when shown that no one is watching them become depressed. They don't become relieved like "oh, Thank God" . They become depressed because the alternative that they're just ordinary felt worse.The patients aren't stupid, They believe this False premise and the only difference between them and you is that you haven't found your false premise yet. NOTE : This also does not take away your right of questioning events, rather I think it gives you the knowledge to know when it's delusion and to call it delusion.This is the first insight in a three part series I'm developing titled "falsus- Everything and Everyone is false including me" the three part series would dive deep into delusions related to our world and how it feels fundamentally false in others eyes.Would really love to hear your thoughts in the comment section.

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