Someone has
delusions, of grandeur, of being an artist, of being captain of the universe, etc., then whomever presents reality
over and over until the delusion has been
eliminated.
Once Oscar realized he wasn't an artist and his
video game playing was vastly
overrated in his mind, he stopped calling his mother a
dream squasher and realized she was a delusion squasher, and that he had to get a real job