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Originally Posted by mgran
For example, yesterday morning I imagined a whole text conversation on my phone between me and my landlady, which culminated in her telling me to move out. About half an hour later I was feeling much less blurry and upset, and started to wonder if the conversation had actually happened. So I checked my phone, and no texts had come in from my landlady. So the whole conversation never happened, and yet I remember it... at the same time as being aware it didn't happen.
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This is exactly the kind of thing my son was talking about it. I told him he could try and explain it to me for three hours, and I don't think could grasp it. But if he talked to someone who had been through the experience, he could convey it with three sentences.
He says he starts with a nugget of truth, then imagines a bunch of what ifs. Then he can't work out what's true and what's a what if. But I've watched delusional thoughts take hold of him. He'll be talking, then suddenly mid-sentence he'll say something like, "Oh, I've just realized my wife is being gang raped." Sometimes he'll even add, "I don't know how I know these things." It literally seems like it happens so quickly, like there's no mental process behind it at all. At least that's how it appears to me as an observer.
One time he just burst into tears and said, "Adam is dead!" So, I called Adam and let my son talk to him to see he wasn't dead. As soon as he heard Adam's voice, he realized it wasn't true.