Yeah I don't see it as making things up because there are actual patterns there, it's just that some of them we think are meaningful in a way that's relevant to the outside world or something larger when no one else would see the same pattern.

So let's say I went to work and 3 of 5 of us choose to wear purple that day...that's a real pattern and I usually make a joke about not getting the memo for purple day but I know there is no significance. While psychotic I might think that there was some significance to the purple and try to decode it's meaning.

To give an actual example at one point I thought everyone wearing sunglasses was part of the group trying to recruit me or similarly that every car with one window rolled down was involved. These are real patterns but they probably don't mean anything. What happened was it was the transition from spring to summer when I got sick so these were actual changes that happened almost overnight....however normally they are so inconsequential I wouldn't even notice them.