The Delusion Case

A short interview about a short and delusional encounter...

“Mr… Anderson… you need to tell us what happened. We can’t help you if you don’t say anything.”

“ Um… It’s a long story and it hurts to think about it, but I’ll say it anyways. It was really strange, to know that I could interfere with supernatural things is just…”

“Focus sir.”

“ Ah, sorry, anyways that day I was trying to hurry up and head home. It was literally about to start pouring. I knew I shouldn't have stayed outside for so long, but it had been so long since I had seen my friend, and I was really excited to catch up on all the things I had missed. In Austin Texas, the weather is normally warm and calm, but it was pretty weird that day. It was really cold that morning and I could have sworn there was no cloud in sight, but then it was as if it was cloudy all day. I looked up and it looked like it was night. I just wanted to get home. After a while of walking, I decided to jog…”

“ Why?”

“Why? Why what?”

“ Why did you decide to Jog?”

“ Well like I said it was about to pour and walking would take longer so I went to jog. Is that a good explanation?”

“Very well, go on.”

“ I decided to jog to get home faster. It was really creepy, and as a kid, creepy people can do creepy things. And I was way too young to die. I was exceptionally hungry not that it matter, but I was craving mac’n cheese like I am now. I was gonna stop at a small store ya’know for some of that craved mac’n cheese, not like I could have cooked it then but anyways. Then I accidentally bumped into someone. You know now that I think about it it didn’t feel like it was on accident, it was like they ran into me! I know I’m a handsome guy but trying to ruin my face and body out of pure and random spite I was not having it. Anywho, right after they bumped into me I took precisely two steps and then turned around. Whatever had bumped into me had turned around as well so I looked into eyes, and OH MY GOD.”

“What! What happened, what did you see?”

“ I saw the reddest eyes I’ve ever seen!”

“Red eyes… you mean like bloodshot eyes?”

“ No… like literally red eyes… what do you call it… iris…his iris was literally red! I had to blink five times to quintuple-check that! It, well I assumed it was a human-like figure with a rare red iris disease or something so I just looked and was like, ‘You good bro?’ And you know what?”

“What?”

“ He flew away…”

“Wha… flew… like wing flew, jumped flew or ran fast flew?”

“He like hovered and kinda jumped flew, but he didn’t jump, he stayed in the air. After he left I was like paralyzed. I could not move. I thought I was gonna die, then I entered this other realm…”

“How old are you Mr.Anderson?”

“Sixteen, but why does that matter?”

“Sixteens year-olds tend to think that they can do magical things based on the unrealistic videos and games in this world. Are you sure you quote unquote entered another realm?”

“Sir… Supernatural Protection League Officer, no… I’ll shorten it to SPLO if you want me to stop giving my testimony I can go eat Mac’n Cheese back in my allotted prison cell, but if you’d like me to continue shut up and stop doubting!”

“Got it, But I’m just a psychiatrist.”

“Thank you, anyways, as I entered this other realm I saw some things arguing in a shiny corner. Now as the energetic teen I am I thought I could do so really cool parkour with the scenery around me…”

“Describe your surroundings.”

“Um… there was mostly ice and lava. Like ice structures and lava things. Don’t ask how it goes together. It really is hard to explain you know, I left after a short time, and couldn’t really see much.”

“You left? How?”

“Well not even 2 seconds after I had entered I saw this discombobulated praying mantis thing, it looked like a ritual was taking place. It had a funny hat, and beads all over it and it had guinea pig guards with weird rail gun things. It was the weirdest sight I have ever seen…”

“Bwaaahhahha”

“... what's so funny? I’m being serious here! I almost peed my pants!”

“What happened next, pfft”

“ Well, The praying mantis thing took a straw and stabbed me with it… Then it started drinking me!”

“Next!”

“And I was back on the sidewalk, but it was pouring wickedly, I think I saw a cat drown!”

“How did you get home?”

“Oh… I didn’t, I think I woke up here.”

“As in, you can’t remember what happened?”

“Sir SPLO, I am being honest… “

“Oh, I know that you're trying to be honest, are you sure this wasn’t a dream? Kids have very strange dreams that seem real.”

“ No one listens! My life has changed ever since I bumped into that thing. Right above you’re head is the hamster with a gun! Please listen to me, sir SPLO!”

“If you insist this is not a dream I will tell you one thing, your life has indeed changed and you will now spend the rest of your life in a mental asylum, go into realms, and be sucked up for as long as you’d like. The others will believe you.”

“Others?”

“Oh yes. Others claiming the exact same nonsense as you.”

“They believe in this, they see these things like me?”

“Yes, to the point where we call them the Irises. They all, including you, have a faint glow of red in your eyes, claiming to have been placed in another realm. And we wanted to nip this problem in the bud, you like testing huh? Cause you’ll get a lot of it!”