On one world: state of mind = state of metabolism. (Thank god we don’t live there, huh? But it could be even worse: theatres on an adjoining planet show previews of past attractions that are produced by the pancreas!)
A man’s friend said to him: “The reason you don’t enjoy movies is that you will not ‘suspend belief.’” To which he replied: “Hell, I have to do that most of the time that I’m looking at reality.”
There are three great curses: not knowing; not knowing what it is that you do not know; and third, thinking that you do know. (There is an even worse, fourth curse, which afflicts those who dispute the first three…and who live with idiots.)
Any, I-have-a-reasonably-good-grip-on-reality person is beyond hallucinating in their own life; seeing the ghost of Goethe living in their potting shed.
But it is much rarer to not hallucinate in other people’s lives; believing that their ideas are hallucinations and illusions rather than reality.
One approach to doin’ The Thing is to say to yourself continually,
“I’m doin’ The Thing” without thinking about it further.
J.