I have had what I thought were experiences that were proof of my delusions, but it was just my busted inputs feeding me false data. I’m able to recognize it when it happens now (tactile hallucinations around pacemaker implant site).
I am not a huge fan of Jordan Peterson but he and his brother had a creepy experience of hearing the loud fluttering beating of wings in the trunk of their car, opened it to find nothing. That’s a shared hallucination.
A you have to dismiss black and white thinking
So good and evil is a terrible way to look at the world.
And don’t make everything grey either. It is far more complicated than that. One thing I realized though is that there are some genuinely nefarious neurologies out there, so having a playful stance towards their existence is healthier than hating or fearing them. You take back your power. Don’t be driven by a slave mentality towards them.
B you have to connect with love somehow. For me it is through strong statements that individuals have made to me in my life. Find communications to hold on to that can ground you
My wife and I once thought we heard a woman screaming while we were driving so we stopped. There was no woman. When we started again we discovered a back window in the van was open just enough the wind sounded like a scream when it went through.
Most of the things people think are mysterious, aren’t.
Yup. I don’t live in a world of imaginary beings in the sky that punish people for being people or things that go bump in the night. If they do, I bump back.
Me and a friend had what i think was a shared hallucination. We were driving once and we saw this sort of foggy low whisp of cloud when we were driving up to it, it felt like it went through the car. The hair on my neck was standing up and we both looked at eachother and were like holy ■■■■ wtf was that. Same thing happened to him and so we immediately drove home cuz we were scared.
Yeah taking a verrrrry conservative view of basically anything considered supernatural or magical and being skeptical helped me a lot to close off some stuff.