I am not saying you are lying, nor that I don’t believe you.
I do believe everything you are describing that you’re experiencing.
There is still a potential second issue here that you never seem to have considered. Causality vs Correlation.
Bear with me while I tell a small tale:
I’ll call our protagonist “John” to keep him anonymous
John had a car accident. He woke up 2 days later in a hospital, and there is where everything begun for him.
A few days later he started to have the feeling that some people were following him.
He could see them by the corner of his eyes, but every time he would turn his head to see them, he would feel a shock on his neck, and they would no longer be there.
John then begun looking for an explanation, and he looked for it for a long time.
Until he finally found a website telling him he had been microchipped against his will and he was now a test subject for the government.
The site explained everything for him, the figures following him, the shocks he was feeling…
So he believed it.
But from that point onwards, every time he begun talking about that to anyone, they would immediately think he was crazy.
Lucky for John, some years later he finally stumbled across someone who could help him… And after a long time, we discovered what was wrong with him.
What John knew:
- John was seeing shadows on the corner of his eyes: true.
- John felt a shock when turning to see them: true.
- John had one explanation which addressed both those things: true.
- John was not crazy: true.
What john did not knew at that time:
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John’s shocks were unrelated to the figures he saw: After testing he found out that if he turned his head very quickly to any direction, he would also feel the shock. John did not knew that because turning your head quickly is not an action we do everyday.
The confusion here begun when John associated the figures he was seeing to his shock sensation. This association happened because the only reason he would turn his head that quickly was to try and look at those figures… So here there was no Causality, only Correlation.
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John had a partially displaced retina on his left eye. This was caused by the accident and was the source of the figures he was seeing following him. Once this was treated he never saw figures again.
It just happens that seeing a shadow on the corner of your vision will trigger a response on the brain to assume there is “a predator” there. This is our instinct kicking in and clouding our judgement. Yet it is a perfectly normal situation.
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John had a trapped nerve, also due to the accident, which caused him shock sensations whenever he would turn his head too much, too fast. John did not know that since, as already explained, we don’t do that movement that often.
All this could have been diagnosed much faster if John had just pursued more options when attempting to understand what was going on.
The website he found gave him very “easy answers”.
His mindset was “this site explained all the things I am feeling now, and it is the only place I found that explained it to me. So everything else they say must also be true.”
I can understand why he would think that…
Yet, the site failed to actually explain the technology behind it. Because such technology does not exist.
In fact, when that text was input into one of the university “counterfeit detection” software (a software which tries to find similar paragraphs from one source in sites on the internet) and let to run over less academic sources, about a dozen other sites popped up.
From that point on was easy to spot that each blog/site/forum used the other to validate it’s points. But no where they got into any explanation about how such amazing technology could work.
Nor did they offered any explanation as to why all the amazing things that could be done from that same technology, also don’t exist yet.
Took some time to actually pinpoint one of the first sources referenced by a couple of those blogs as “ultimate proof”. Was an article about how those microchips work and what they could do.
After hunting down the author… It was discovered it had been written by a 16 year old girl, who made everything up from her own mind to serve as a supplement for a Role Playing Game she used to play. That ended up in her site, for her players to use… and ended up being read and treated as truth by one ill informed blogger, which in turn became the source for a dozen other bloggers.
Why am I saying all that?
Because ultimately, insisting on the easiest explanation (microchips based on a technology that no one can understand) was exactly what got John, a perfectly sane man, to be treated as crazy.
And being treated as crazy is what got him to suffer for almost a decade before someone decided to run a full battery of tests on him.
And ultimately, the fact that one explanation makes sense does not mean it is the correct explanation.
