Like you get transported into an alternate universe where everything is almost same, but with tiny differences. The world looks normal to everyone and you’re the only one that have memories of the differences.
Do you think you would trust your memories or would you think you lost your mind?
I’m the only one remembering? Yeah I’m visiting a head doctor
I’d start looking for what filled their place: who graduated in their place? What person is filling their job position? Their brothers/sisters are the same? Wife/husband and kids? Etc.
If there is evidence of a filled void, I’d trust my memory; if not, I’d think I’ve gone crazy.
I would assume it’s psychosis and let everyone know I’m going crazy and need supervision. That seems way more likely that someone magically disappearing.
Lost my mind
I would never stop until i figured out what happened.
Probably go crazy
The answer is: it doesn’t matter. It was real to us.
If you’re not going to lash out or try to reverse it somehow, I guess that’s a perfectly healthy way to look at it.
I already don’t trust my memories.
I would look for psychiatric help and go over memories of that person with other people. I’d probably wonder if they were real or would also disappear.
Edit: oh shit i just remembered that i confuse things that happened in dreams with real life things sometimes. maybe this would be a more extreme version of that? dreaming a whole person. wow
That already happened to me with everyone that I went to school with.
There we graduated and they vanished. Doesn’t bother me a bit.
I can’t imagine you could hallucinate a person in such detail and over such a long period of time that there would never be any indication they weren’t imaginary. I would trust my memories and question the circumstances of their disappearance.
You brain makes up the details in exactly the amount you need to. That is a core problem when your brain itself is the issue.
and it’s for exactly this reason that arguing with a delusion strengthens it. If you show a person with Cotard delusions how to find their pulse they’ll come to the conclusion that dead bodies can still have a heartbeat and if you show a person with capgras delusions a DNA test now the doppelgangers can mimic DNA too. the new information just gets integrated in a way that supports the delusion. all you can do is try to distract them while the antipsychotics hit and try to keep them socially connected through unrelated stuff like hobbies, music, etc.
IIT most people are going the other way, but IRL I think this is how the vast majority operates.
That being said, the psychotic person I deal with quite often has pretty similar reasoning about the people sneaking into her house and moving things around (it’s always her, there’s even cameras but she was there, dammit, regardless of what’s on the screen).
Inb4 they starting doing Zersetzung, rearranging furniture and then use AI to create a fake security footage.
Oh boy, if she actually understood AI there’d be a whole other layer to deal with. As it is, she continues to believe her fixed delusions, but also can’t support them, so most of the time we can just ignore it and interact normally.
I have the rule of never worrying about things I cannot change. So I would just move on with my life and trust that the person I was and will be is making the best decisions possible given the information and constraints of the time. YOLO
Assuming there’s nothing wrong with you, there must be something wrong with the universe
I need to watch the 4400 again
It would depend on the person for me. Like, I’ve got family I abstractly care about, but they’re not a very present part of my life, and they could probably vanish without me even noticing.
Then on the other end, completely removing all trace of my partner would be very noticible and distressing.
I would assume it was Superboy Prime again
