Does anyone else have the God delusion?

Ok I find a Hindi word for son of the God “Avatar”.

Zeus here. Let there be no pretenders to the throne. I am he. I have spoken.

(is that creepy?)

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10 shares of Florida Orange juice stock please.

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Shares or servings? Love orange juice.

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I am God when I decide to squish an ant with the end of my thumb.

God is so far beyond us. He designed the Universe!

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I hear it is very common. However I think that this and thought broadcasting are some of the few delusions that I haven’t had. The most I believed was that I was something called a beta czar and that people like this controlled the world from behind the scenes.

I think we all know the world is more than it seems…

Quantum physics states everything needs to be observed before it exists.
We’re all observing and creating and making the world change… For all we know the world only exists inside our headspace. No wonder we’re convinced we’re Gods

Definitely trying to be aware this is a delusion… or at least you can be really ‘far out’ with an idea.

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Wow this is exactly how it went for me! This is literally my story… the world seemed to reflect that I was this uber God because I was influencing everybody all the time.

My non ill friend says he can influence people on live TV and make them react!
I do the same thing but it doesn’t need to be live.

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I believed I was God and could beat anyone in a fight. I thought I could lift up cars and buses and airplanes when the right time came. I thought I was God and that I had 231 children. I actually have no children at all of my own.

I believed mike Tyson was scared of me because I would beat him up at some stage. I thought I was the ultimate God Fighter!

There’s a lot more delusions but I won’t go into them.

I also thought I would sleep with 1000s of women. I believed many people were my children on the TV, even though they all were adults and are really nothing like me. (It’s really weird)

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If i wasnt still working to convince myself im crazy, id say i had met another “proprietor of a universe”. Quantum mechanics played a huge part in my beliefs as well, especially the idea of the multiverse. I first began my theory, my unusual belief about existance when i was about 14, convined in the idea of multiple universes, each inhabited by some powerful being who could shape the outcome of that universe, before i knew anything about quatuum theory. In college, when i was raving psychotic i had so nearly convinced my friend of my beliefs that he went to the head of the physics department to ask if my theory was viable…well the physics department head said my ideas were not cemented in reality and that quantum ideas were just postulates. Haha. XD

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I believed I was God my freshmen year of hs…and later would believe I was the next messiah/child of God…so yeah been there done that…

In my case I believe the delusion came from me being self conscious about how average/falling below average I became academically. I’d been special and super accomplished my whole life and then all the mental illness stuff happened and I was barely scraping by. None of that stuff mattered if I was God, that allowed me to still be special…

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One day I felt god said me that I was in the right way :roll_eyes: Nowadays I’m worst than that day.

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When i believed i was god i tried to do magic and perform miracles. In my mania i compromised able to be special.

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Yes the delusions of reference resulted in delusions of grandeur for me. By thinking I was the center of everything (delusions of reference) I began to think I was the chosen one. When I realized I had a lot in common with Jesus Christ (along with the chosen one belief), I started to believe I was Christ himself!! And this definitely impacted my life in many negative ways. When that belief has only echoed throughout your head for a short moment, it still impacts your life, because you have experienced it. But when it comes ingrained in you for a long time, it changes your whole psychology of your brain in my opinion. It changes how you act for the longest time, how people treat you, you are separate from others, GREATER than others…in your mind. It is a very difficult thing to live with!! I think I have recently come to terms that delusions can be the most difficult symptom. And they are certainly usually the longest lasting if the meds work they usually don’t get rid of the delusions right away. But they may get rid of voices and other symptoms quicker than others. But yeah it is very disturbing but I’m learning to live with it and accept myself as beautiful for what I am. It doesn’t define me, my delusions, but it is an aspect of me that has had an impression on me. And I gotta learn to live with that. And the delusion always comes back for me. The messiah delusion always returns… Even if for a day after not believing it for months. But most oftentimes longer. Schizophrenia isnt for sissies!!! I just hate how it always comes back, it feels like a curse, but I’ve learned to tell myself that “Even if I am Jesus, well,Jesus would live his life as normally as he could. As if he was Jesus, not the messiah. The chosen one is chosen by others, and the best I can do is life my life the best I can.”

Jesus didn’t think “Wow I’m Jesus, dang sweet that is!!!” he may have thought he’s the messiah, but he was just living naturally because he was trying to be the messiah, not trying to be Jesus. He was being himself, the messiah. Not himself, Jesus the messiah.

If that makes sense

I’ve never had delusions about being God, but I have had delusions that I was a genius before. Thinking you’re a genius is a fun delusion to have, but you can end up looking like an idiot at times. A lot of people think they are genius’s, and, I suppose, within the context of their own lives they might be. People’s lives can make a lot more sense when you see the underlying causes of their actions.

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I thought I was a genius but it went along with my messiah/I’m gonna be a super success/change the world delusion. I figured I must be a genius to do all those things.

Then when I found out I wasn’t a genius I justified it by saying "Oh but I have the optimal IQ because it’s optimal between intelligence vs. difficulty of life (that’s 120 IQ, is considered the optimal IQ for creativity because you are more intelligent than 119, but struggle more than 121…it’s at the top of the bell curve.)

Now I just wanna live for me. I know I’m nothing special, no one is truly special. Or everybody is special. Whichever way you want to look at it.

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Einstein believed that imagination was more important than creativity. I think good morals are more important than all of creativity or intelligence. I often think of the brilliant German physicists who worked for Hitler. I’ve heard that a couple of them were affable, likable people. There is some speculation that the head German physicist who worked on the atomic bomb for Hitler deliberately led the program down an unproductive line of research, because he realized that Hitler could never have the atomic bomb.

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That’s really cool. I like learning about world war 2 a lot. I think I’m gonna read a book about how much drugs the nazis were doing because I find that subject interesting. It’s a new book in investigative journalism. Those are true heroes who stopped Hitler from getting an atomic bomb…but kind of swept under the rug in history.

We take for granted how many people are heroes we’ve needed to keep our world as placid as it is, even if it is still a mess… I’m sure many people would do the same thing in someone else shoes but a hero is a hero and deserves the credit for what they have done!!! If everyone in the world was a hero besides me, I would be happy. I used to get jealous of heroes for taking the spotlight but now I realize we need as many heroes as we can have.

They should have stopped the Americans too seeing how they used it…