Weasley's Basilisk

Obā-san

Odradek

wot

Klinotaxis

oh, my god, I remember thinking like this in high school

I am so very glad nobody was around with a formalism

Salix Babylonika

what

Obā-san

Klinotaxis said:

oh, my god, I remember thinking like this in high school

I am so very glad nobody was around with a formalism

this was pretty much my reaction to this too

Sredni Vashtar

That sounds like a form of depersonalisation, to be entirely honest, although using autosuggestion to create such a mental state, while it has a perverse logic to it, is still pretty out there.

Crystal

This is a fascinating something.

Sredni Vashtar

I actually have a character in the thing I'm writing who creates a kind of second person in his head based on his dead, somewhat abusive older brother along these lines. Which is weird, because that was meant to be a part of that character's extreme alienation from social contact, which is clearly not the case with this dude.

Bee

fucking yudkowskites

Klinotaxis

Sredni Vashtar said:

That sounds like a form of depersonalisation, to be entirely honest,

it was certainly related to depression for me

Odradek

The important thing to take from this is that being a rational utilitarian apparently involves getting bullied by your imaginary friends.