I've never thought about this until now. Reality verification.
Of course, if you were already conversing with a phantom, and then you ask the phantom if they are real, I feel like you're already past the point of sanity.
What if all of the speech is coming from Gabe? It's all in his head. Even the final speech bubble is wrapping around and back to Gabe!
We're through the looking glass.
I see lots of things other people don't see. Like how it doesn't matter whether or not the Reese's candy looks like a tree. It's a piece of chocolate and peanut butter combined. You're supposed to eat it not look at it. I don't even get why people care when food doesn't look enough like non-food. It all looks the same when it's done moving through your digestive system. I also see and talk to cartoon horses. There's nothing wrong with that. They're my friends and help me be kinder to myself. It's not like we're planning on replacing human society with anthropomorphic cartoon animals or anything. Stop giving me that look.
It's even worse if those two examples are related.
They're both utterly ridiculous notions. The difference is most people don't seem to be rolling their eyes at the first example as much as they will (and should) at the second. That to me is real oddness.
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Of course, if you were already conversing with a phantom, and then you ask the phantom if they are real, I feel like you're already past the point of sanity.
We're through the looking glass.
If you were real, I'd hug you.
Thank you! I try.
They're both utterly ridiculous notions. The difference is most people don't seem to be rolling their eyes at the first example as much as they will (and should) at the second. That to me is real oddness.