Good morning, Lain. |
Good morning, Touko-san. |
Have you seen anything since then? |
No, I haven’t. Honestly. |
Have you heard anything? |
Sometimes I hear gibberish. |
Very confused? One person? More than one? |
More than one. Men and women. |
Are they people you know? |
Probably not. |
You said that you heard things from the sky. What do you think is in the sky? |
There’s air. |
Uh, huh. And aside from that? |
Clouds. The sun. The stars. |
Do you know about the radio waves for TV and cell phones? |
Yes. The information travels wirelessly? |
Right. The information flies through the sky. |
Am I hearing that information? |
Hmm. It might be that you imagine you are hearing that information. |
There’s a sickness like that? |
There is. |
It’s called delusion. |
It’s a symptom of schizophrenia and neurosis. |
In simple terms, such symptoms may appear when you concentrate too much on something or feel stressed. |
But... |
But? |
Most of the time, you will hear things that are related to you, to some extent. |
For instance, they hear voices that bad-mouth them. |
Paranoia? |
Right. |
You’ve been studying up on this stuff. |
Ok. I’ll fill you in a little more on this. |
The definition of "delusion" is taking a mistaken idea and believing in your own mind that it is correct. |
But for you, Lain, you say that you might have felt or sensed something. |
You don't have conviction in your feelings, so they aren't delusions. |
You have thoughts, in technical terms, we call it contemplations. |
Contemplations? |
You can forget that term if you’d like. |
As I mentioned before, a delusion is generally something intertwined with one’s self. |
Most of the time, there are no delusions that don't involve me. |
I’m not delusional? |
Fundamentally, no. |
Still, there are all sorts of delusions, and if you try to "pin" one of them onto someone, you may start pinning other ones on that person, too. |