Multiplicity

First thing: insanity. Well, to be fair I don't believe I'm insane primarily because I'm a multiple, even a fractured one. I believe I'm insane because of the OCD, the panic attacks, the walls breathing at night and the radio talking to me. I've had time to come to terms with the fact that my perceptions of reality are *not* everyone's, and that they shouldn't be; but in my head, the line goes if you think the radio's talking about you--and whether it's on or not, you're hearing it talk about you--you aren't whatever passes for "normal". Whatever that is. I'm mostly just relieved I'm upright and functional enough not to be drooling in the corner of some locked ward. Frankly.

And maybe it's me, but...believing that "fiction" here might be "reality" elsewhere has been a constant of speculative fiction, and certain schools of philosophy, for decades now. Heinlein took on the topic and made a book of it with Number of the Beast. That, I'd believe. Actually, that I do believe.

How'ver, most of the information I've run across--which, I grant, is not all the information available--doesn't make this connection. It mostly seems to reference "I was watching this anime, and X character walked into my head" statements. Which is where, you know, I start backing away and nodding, so as not to overtly disturb the crazy person.

*shrugs* But I'd agree with you, religion and soulbonding seem equally eccentric.