Online, the screen acts as a “fragile nook” that distorts reality, turning simple messages into a disorienting labyrinth of potential.
We hallucinate because, within this “digital abyss,” we build people in our minds, filling the gaps of silence and text with our own deep longing and unhealed hunger.
As explored in Fever Dreams, this medium allows us to communicate as our “purest thoughts” while paradoxically turning us into “spectators in our own lives”.
We often find ourselves falling in love not with a tangible human being, but with a “projection of our own desires” and a “shimmering mirage of belonging”. This internal fiction is reinforced by the “delayed tomorrow” loop, where the promise of meeting becomes a flickering mirage that perpetually recedes into a “heavy fog”.
We hallucinate online because the digital realm offers a protected space to reveal our inner worlds without the “raw, unfiltered, and humiliating” honesty required by physical presence
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