Projection

A slide deck that everyone has been promised, everyone has prepared for, and nobody can successfully display.

Dave spent two hours saying ‘let me share my screen’ before we realized the quarterly report was a projection in every sense of the word.

Projection by Brokefast July 2, 2026

Projection Cutting 

Projection cutting is when you're talking about your opinions and sharing something with a group of people or just one person, and someone interrupts you rudely or doesn't acknowledge what you said and starts to talk about what they think, as if your thoughts, views or ideas don't matter.

Girl 1: Wow, Jane was really projection cutting me today in class.
Girl 2: Totally - we don't even care about her skeevy opinions anyway.

Projection Cutting by luckytoad March 4, 2010

Projection Bucktee 

A football fantasy term used for a person that fiends seeing high projections. Makes decisions based on projections. And starts and sits solely on projections to see that overall projection be higher. To a point where projections overpower rational knowledge

The only reason why armin started Amari cooper this week is because he’s a projection bucktee.

Projection Bucktee by Cheetooburritoo October 19, 2022

Projection Erection 

when trump aka Casino Mobster gets aroused after projecting his shortcomings on perceived enemies

in a recent, word-salad Projection Erection speech outside the courthouse, Tubby claimed Letitia James and Biden conspired against him using White House visitor logs. as The Former Guy gets a boner every time he makes a confession-accusation, it obviously means donald committed felonies with visitors to his mobbed-up white house

Projection Erection by Uncle Joosie January 12, 2024

Projection of Truth

A cognitive bias where one projects the property of "truth" onto one's own beliefs while denying it to others—assuming that what one believes is simply what's true, and that disagreement can only be explained by error, bias, or bad faith. Projection of truth operates when someone says "I'm just telling the truth" as if that settled the matter; when they treat their own interpretations as facts and others' as opinions; when they cannot entertain the possibility that they might be wrong. The projection lies in the identification of one's own perspective with truth itself—the assumption that one doesn't have beliefs, only knowledge; doesn't have opinions, only insights; doesn't have a perspective, only reality. It's the cognitive foundation of dogmatism, the certainty that makes dialogue impossible.

Example: "He didn't argue—he just asserted that he was telling the truth and she was lying. Projection of truth: assuming that his version of events simply was reality, and any alternative was deception."

Projection of Truth by Dumu The Void March 19, 2026

Projection of Reality

A cognitive bias where one projects one's own experience of reality onto the world itself—assuming that the way things appear to one is simply how they are, and that others who experience differently are deluded, mistaken, or lying. Projection of reality operates when someone says "that's not real" about experiences they haven't had; when they dismiss alternative perspectives as fantasy; when they cannot accept that reality might appear differently to different people. The projection lies in mistaking one's own perception for the thing perceived—confusing the map with the territory, the experience with the reality. It closes off understanding of others' experiences, making genuine dialogue impossible because one's own reality is treated as the only reality.

Example: "He'd never experienced discrimination, so he insisted it wasn't real—projection of reality, assuming that what he hadn't seen couldn't exist."

Projection of Reality by Dumu The Void March 19, 2026

Projection of Bias

A cognitive bias where one projects the accusation of bias onto others while remaining blind to one's own biases—assuming that bias is something others have, not something that affects everyone. Projection of bias operates when someone says "you're biased" as a conversation-stopper, never acknowledging their own situatedness; when they analyze everyone else's motivations while assuming their own are transparent; when they treat bias as a flaw that only opponents possess. The projection lies in the blindness to self—the assumption that one occupies a privileged position outside the fray, that one's own perceptions are clear while others' are distorted. It's the meta-bias: the bias of thinking oneself unbiased.

Example: "He could list every bias his opponents had but had never examined his own assumptions—projection of bias, treating bias as something others have while remaining invisible to himself."

Projection of Bias by Dumu The Void March 19, 2026