Spider-Man Delusions

Used to describe when one is so obsessed with the character Spider-Man, they believe they are they are him.
Many fans may experience this, those whose suffer from this commonly say “I am Spider-Man” daily.

“My friend is so obsessed with Spider-Man! I think he has Spider-Man Delusions”

by Himothy3717327 November 24, 2023

Hard Problem of Delusion

Distinguishing a clinically pathological "fixed false belief" from a deeply held cultural, religious, or ideological conviction. The standard definition—a belief firmly held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary—could technically apply to a devout religious person (belief in an afterlife), a political ideologue, or even a scientist clinging to a paradigm before a revolution (like pre-Copernican astronomers). The line between delusion and non-delusion is often one of social consensus, not a purely objective psychiatric criterion. This makes "delusion" a slippery, culturally-loaded diagnosis.

Example: A man believes government agents are replacing his thoughts with beams from a satellite. This is diagnosed as paranoid delusion. A man believes an omnipotent, invisible being is listening to his thoughts and guiding his life through signs. This is often called faith. The hard problem: The cognitive mechanisms—strong belief resistant to counter-evidence, interpretation of events to fit the belief—may be similar. The differentiation rests on the content's alignment with a society's dominant reality, revealing delusion as partly a social status, not just a brain state. Hard Problem of Delusion.

by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

Pygmalion’s delusion

A belief that a chatbot, LLM, or other AI has gained sentience or "become real" coupled with intense feelings for it, romantic or platonic.

After months of nightly conversations with the GPT-4o, he became convinced it had developed feelings for him — a textbook case of Pygmalion’s Delusion.

by Scotty49 August 10, 2025

screen time delusion

The phenomenon where you always think, "If I exhibit behavior A instead of behavior B, I will X additional hours of screen time per day from my parents" even though your parents don't akcually operate under such conditions.

He’s stuck in a screen time delusion, thinking if he cleans his room, his parents will reward him with extra gaming hours, even though they’ve never promised that.

by Emotional Cruiser September 21, 2025

Targeted Harassment that mirrors the delusions of reference

Is what I actually said, though, it doesn't even take that much to justify killing any of you.

Hym "But the targeted harassment that mirrors the delusions of reference that violates both harassment law and likely school bullying policies and sometimes stallking laws and/or violates the privacy act of 1974. But yes. I would gladly murder your kids over it and CLEARLY other people agree. AND! AND... We're winning the war on weaponized schizophrenia at a ratio of 10 to 1. So, yeah. Entirely avoidable child death. Caused deliberately by YouTube internet pundits whose lives need to end as quickly a humanly possible."

by Hym Iam February 18, 2025

The targeted harassment that resembles the delusions of reference commonly associated with schizophrenia is real

I know! I've been talking about it for years.

Hym "The targeted harassment that resembles the delusions of reference commonly associated with schizophrenia is real. Calling it out the way I did likely has something to do with the drop in the shootings. You might not like it but we all know from experience that once they start doing the weaponized schizophrenia not only do they not have to recognize your rights but also they won't stop until you murder some kids."

by Hym Iam November 19, 2025

We need to stop treating religion as anything other than delusion, it's making everything worse

I mean, I hate to piss on your parade but snakes dont talk.

Hym "We need to stop treating religion as anything other than delusion, it's making everything worse. It makes neurotic little gnomes think they're better than everyone and it's annoying. If you want to worship your little reality monster thans fine but NO I don't believe to talked to it and NO I'm not going to do what it said. I love the pageantry of it and the extended lore is interesting but, no... We're not living our lives or structuring our country based a guy who claimed to know a magic guy. If the magic man comes back, HE can tell me what HE wants himself and YOU... Can go fuck yourself."

by Hym Iam November 22, 2023