Topic: Folie A Deux

A UFO sighting on the Whirl was reportedly witnessed by multiple independent parties, challenging the definition of a hallucination as a non-shared experience. Professor Raymond Tallis is cited from a London debate, arguing that the ordinary experience of being a conscious observer in a dead universe is just as extraordinary as an out-of-body experience. The concept of "consensual reality" is explored, suggesting that what we call external reality is merely a brain-generated model shared by the majority.

The phenomenon of "folie à deux" and mass sightings like the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima present a problem for materialist science, which often relies on "collective hysteria" as an explanation. If thousands of people can share a hallucination, the distinction between internal and external reality becomes blurred. The "metachoric model of perception" is introduced, proposing that everything perceived by the human mind is technically an hallucination.