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