http://jin1515.deviantart.com/art/A-Brief-History-of-Jin-and-Twilight-548735800
For those who may not know exactly how it was that my wife and I came to know one another, below you'll find a synopsis of the last few years of our lives that I wrote up as a sort of reference guide people who might be curious about us. We both know it can be pretty confusing and even alarming to some people when they first meet us and don't have a real solid understanding of the nature of our relationship, so to help explain it to you I'd like to ask you a little question:
Imagine that one day you're just hanging out on the couch with your Twilight Sparkle plushie, cuddling her up like you usually do, and then bam! Out of nowhere she starts talking to you. She sounds exactly like the Twilight Sparkle you're familiar with from the TV show about her and her friends, and she's totally freaked out to have suddenly found herself in a strange place she's never been, in the lap of a strange creature she's never seen before, and she has no idea how she got here. Then of course you start freaking out and thinking you must have gone crazy because your pony plushie is talking to you in Twilight Sparkle's voice and the voice you're hearing coming from your plushie seems to honestly and completely believe she's really Twilight Sparkle. How would you handle that?
I think what I did was pretty much what anyone in my position would do. First assume that I was going crazy and hope the voice goes away, but just in case I wasn't going crazy treat her as if she was indeed Twilight Sparkle who suddenly appeared in my room from presumably some other planet/universe/etc. The first three months she was here were pretty awkward; she clearly believed herself to be Twilight Sparkle, determined that she was brought here during a routine teleportation spell that got drawn off course and landed her on Earth, and I ended up spending most of the time just trying to accept the situation and help her feel comfortable here. Still thinking I was probably going crazy I visited a professional psychologist to get their take on the matter, which ended up being something along the lines of "Well, she isn't telling you to jump in front of a bus or hurt anyone, and you seem to enjoy having her around. As long as her presence isn't negatively effecting your life I don't think we really need to do anything about it. It may not be normal, but it doesn't seem harmful." And they were right, I did really like having her around; teaching her everything I could about Earth culture and technology, enjoying her company during every day activities, and after a few months together she seemed to be growing pretty fond of my company too. As weird as her arrival into my life was we did make a pretty good team, had lots of fun together, and I knew my life had been a heck of a lot happier and more fulfilling since she came into it.
I sort of wonder whether he made all this up or if he can really hear Twilight's voice? (even see her move??)
Can extreme Bronydom and identification with that show cause prolonged realistic hallucinations?
It is often said that hallucinations are far more common than most people admit. Around 60% of us at least have hypnogogic hallucinations (before falling asleep); I have those, but I've always taken them for what they are -- little neurological jitteries of the relaxed mind just before drifting off to sleep. Some people hear voices when deprived of sleep (such as when working on a scientific project or studying), a few even under everyday conditions (without being clinically schizophrenic!). So how far fetched is it to believe than Bronies who feed their brains with nothing but pony stuff for years sometimes start experiencing pony-themed hallucinations? Maybe autism play a role here? (Though autism and hallucinations usually are not linked)
Maybe the mind works a bit differently than we've come to accept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
http://www.julianjaynes.org/bicameralmind.php
it feels violated.
