I’ve heard many cases of people suffering from psychotic episodes, who experience very similar paranoid thoughts – like having the feeling of being under surveillance. Why is this a relatively common thought pattern?
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I can only speak from experience. That nagging sense of “Wait a minute… What if???” Because it makes sense at those moments that *all* of reality could have been misinterpreted. I think there are two things going on. One is a need to be more of a main character when the world has pushed so many of us to the side. Solipsism especially is a severe overcorrection to that. The other is a reaction to a seriously unbalanced state of emotions and thinking. A lot of things seem possible in those moments, and actual reality seems to be the least plausible of them all.
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