PFC Chapter 2816: Demonic Restricted Area (2)
Chapter 2816: Demonic Restricted Area (2)
Chapter 2816: Demonic Restricted Area (XII)
Schiller did not relax his vigilance after entering the bedroom. He still did not speak or even write. He just gave Gordon a calm look and began to check the room.
Before Schiller could make any move, he saw the eyes of the painting hanging on the wall move.
Schiller understood a little, so he did not choose to touch the objects in the room, but took out a white candle and lit it.
Schiller soon sighed and complained in his heart, saying that he was only paid such a small amount for a visit, and he thought it was much more.
But he still began to look around the room attentively, especially the eyes moving around in the painting. Combined with his previous memories, Schiller showed an expression of understanding.
The chaos displayed by the hotel is a kind of pathology, which can be completely understood as the inner world of a mentally ill person. In fact, this is how the world appears in the eyes of many mentally ill people.
This does not refer to the monsters running around, the terrible bloody events, or the chaotic situations that are completely inconsistent with common sense, but the state reflected behind all these things.
Some people are feeling fear.
This hotel is almost entirely the embodiment of fear, a sound, a pattern, a rule, a feeling, all of which reflect someone's deepest fear.
For example, some mentally ill patients often react violently to inexplicable things, and they only react to one thing of the same type. For example, they are not afraid of thunder, but if a pot lid falls to the ground, they will go crazy.
Logically speaking, both are sounds, and the sound of thunder is much louder than that of something falling to the ground. To be honest, he had no grudge against the pot lid, but that one sound just stimulated him to get sick.
But the problem is not with the pot lid itself, nor the action of dropping something, but rather a certain sound that triggered his fear of certain things.
It is often difficult for ordinary people to understand the connection between the two, or in essence, there is no connection between the two. However, in the hallucination system of mental patients, the two are connected.
Many mental patients have described seeing very scary monsters in the corners of the room or in their peripheral vision. These monsters would be summoned by specific sounds or shadows. As soon as a similar sound or image appeared, the monster would appear as expected and want to kill them.
In the real world, monsters certainly do not exist, but in their personal spiritual world, certain sounds and graphics are given special meanings that can attract monsters.
So when faced with a mentally ill patient's intense reaction, what we should do is not to try to find out what is so special about the pot lid, or whether he has dropped something very important in the past, which is why he has a stress disorder. This is a fallacy of behaviorism gone to the extreme.
In fact, the patient's connection with this voice is likely to be his own fantasy. At this time, a professional psychologist will choose to care about his spiritual world.
Of course, the first thing to do is to ask what's wrong. The patient may not be able to answer well, but through some leading questions, you can find out what he is afraid of, what the monster in his hallucination looks like, what the pattern is, and how to make it go away.
It sounds a bit feudal and superstitious, but this is indeed a scientific treatment method, which even includes encouraging patients to bravely fight monsters and strengthen their willpower so as not to lose to monsters.
Even though all the doctors know that this monster does not exist, they still have to do this because if they cannot comfort the patients mentally and allow them to have the ability to fight against the feared things in hallucinations, then the next time the pot lid falls to the ground, they will become ill and go crazy again.
The ultimate way to cure this type of mental illness is not to eliminate the monster, but to allow the patient to coexist with the monster, no longer be afraid of its arrival, but to muster up the courage to fight it. Only by defeating it can they ignore it.
Schiller believed that the hotel was filled with too many images that awakened fear in some people, the most typical of which was the elevator bell.
This thing rings in the elevator, in the corridor, on monsters, and on alarm clocks. This is clearly a compulsive thought of the patient.
Some patients, when the disease progresses to a very serious stage, will not only react to the sound of a pot lid falling to the ground, but also to many similar sounds, to the point where they interpret all sounds as the monster's wake-up call.
This is obviously the case with the elevator bell. It will ring whenever the other person feels fear, such as when riding in the elevator, walking in the corridor, lying in bed sleeping, or when someone passes by the door.
At this stage, the patient is clearly being harassed by a monster. The monster appears when the patient is in a small space, when the patient is walking through a corridor, when the patient closes his eyes and falls into darkness, and when the patient suddenly hears a noise in silence.
Restaurants go even further, where the rules of Western dining etiquette are infinitely magnified. Those who follow them will survive, while those who don't will die, and even death will not be peaceful. They have to do it again and again.
This means that the appearance of the monster has begun to affect the other person's daily life, making them begin to fear that the monster may cause them to be disrespectful on important occasions, disrupt all their current life patterns, and make them fall from grace and become a complete loser.
That is why they have anxious and obsessive thoughts like "follow etiquette, follow the rules, I must follow the rules and nothing can go wrong", which leads to behaviors that reinforce the rules and create cycles.
Then, things got even worse in Wayne Manor. Not being able to hear, see, or speak meant that the other party felt like he was being watched, which meant that the monster had completely invaded his life, and it no longer only appeared in certain clips or specific scenes, but he began to feel that it was everywhere.
From this point, it can be inferred that the other party is someone living in Wayne Manor, because generally speaking, the sign of the full invasion of life by hallucination monsters is that the most private space is also invaded. Patients usually feel that they are being monitored in their bedrooms or bathrooms at home, which will completely destroy their sense of security.
Schiller believed that Alfred was not actually monitoring anyone, but the butler had become the embodiment of fear, just like a patient with paranoid delusions who saw everyone around them as out to kill him. This butler who frequently appeared in various parts of the manor would obviously be the first person the patient, who had lost his sense of security, would suspect, because he was always silent and omnipresent.
Because of this, the other party imagined that Alfred was a monster, or had long been controlled by the monster, so he could not speak in front of him, could not show any expression, and could not even make any reaction, otherwise he would be discovered by the monster.
This is also a sign of further deterioration of the disease, from the initial hallucinations to suspicion of people in the real world, and it is only one step away from aggressive behavior.
This is just Schiller's analysis based on clinical psychology and psychiatry, on the premise that there are really no monsters in this world.
It’s a pity that there are monsters in this world, and it’s obvious that the one this person provoked was not an ordinary monster, but Nyarlathotep who enjoys teasing humans.
As expected, Naya appeared in front of the other party, but not in the form of a monster, at least not at the beginning.
But things were different later. Naya definitely revealed his true face in front of the patient, and even completely turned into a monster, and kept tracking him, following him and appearing in fragments of his life.
It can be inferred from the elevator bell that the patient most likely saw the monster's true appearance for the first time in the elevator, so the bell of the elevator arriving at the station would trigger the hallucination.
Then Nyarlathotep began to harass the patient more frequently, either in his living environment or at work, causing him to make many mistakes that affected his real life, which gradually began to deprive him of his sense of security.
And if it goes as expected, Naya has never revealed his true face to anyone else, and only does so to patients. In this case, whether he goes to see a doctor or someone he wants to get close to, he won't get any answers for verification, and he will only have one conclusion in the end, that is, he is crazy.
Then, the intrusion into the patient's life became pervasive, with constant surveillance and long-term peeping. As long as the patient made any move, such as talking, looking at other things, or even thinking, the monster would appear.
Eventually, patients feel that even the most familiar places are no longer safe, and they allow their confused thoughts to control their tired bodies and go to an unknown distance.
This has certain similarities with mental manipulation in psychology, except that the Outer Gods are advanced life forms after all, and they do not need to do this through human means such as hypnosis, but have more sophisticated methods.
If Schiller guessed correctly, Naya's true appearance was not just scary. The appearance of the Outer God itself was a kind of pollution. Even just one look at it could cause mental disorder, so Naya's appearance was like a punishment mechanism.
As soon as you see a monster, you will feel confused and painful, but the monster is omnipresent. No matter what you do, it will show up and make your current life a mess. But other people can't see it or understand you. It can be said that there is no way to heaven and no door to enter the earth.
After speculating all this, Schiller did not feel angry. He just felt it was a bit of a pity. If the patient could meet a better psychologist, perhaps things would not have developed to such a serious level.
Because psychologists have seen this situation too many times. A good doctor will not tell the patient that you are sick or that the monster is fake, and that all you need to do is stay awake. This is completely unprofessional, just like telling a patient with depression to be more positive.
The psychologist will ask very carefully about the monster's appearance, attributes, details of the attack on you, how you reacted, what you felt, and even how each part of your limbs felt.
And it is repeated and long-term questioning, using a variety of methods, including but not limited to description, drawing, and brain wave controlled mapping, until the patient is at his wit's end and can't say anything.
A good doctor can use all of the above to determine what is going on with the patient's mind.
If it were Schiller, he could easily realize that the monster was real and not an illusion based on the questions he asked, because there is a very significant difference between the two.
This is because it is entirely possible to determine from various reports whether the other party is illogical, conscious, and rational.
If all of the above are normal, and the only abnormal thing is the hallucination monster, then no matter how absurd it is, Schiller will believe that the monster really exists because he believes in his own judgment.
Therefore, the scene in the movie where the victim encounters a real monster and describes it in detail to the psychologist, but the psychologist does not believe it is almost impossible to happen. Any psychologist who dares to draw such a conclusion without conducting the above-mentioned examinations and without long-term observation basically does not want his job.
Or in other words, for psychologists, the moment the other party says there is a monster, they know they have come to life.
Because this type of mentally ill patient is the most dangerous. Once their sense of security is completely deprived, they are likely to engage in aggressive behavior if their persecution delusions are not controlled. Once their patients get involved in a lawsuit, they will definitely not be able to escape, and the lightest consequence will be a waste of time testifying in court.
Schiller sighed again and looked back at Gordon, wondering whether to tell Peter his speculation.
I'm in Malaysia again. Durian is really delicious.