Do you ever feel like you're the only real person on earth?

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When i was a kid, i had a theory that went something like this:
My life was just some sort of game or test, where everybody else were mere extras, and in order to get to the "real" world to meet "real" people, i had to complete and pass this test, however i felt so useless that i thought i could never pass and would be stuck in this "fake" world for ever!
I still sometimes think about these things, but nowadays think more along the lines that I'm the fake one.

I was kinda like you, except I thought that I was an alien and everyone else were robots. Weird--never thought about it till now.

I used to have this theory that I was the only living being in my environment. Everything and everyone else was an illusion created by a Master or several Masters. I also thought it was possible there were more living and actual people, but our worlds would probably never meet. In this theory only what I saw was there, behind every closed door there was Emptyness.

^ I am the puppet master.

I too had the feeling, and still do, that no one's "real."

I feel that way on many occasions. I never tell anyone, though...lest they think I'm crazy.

The idea is sort of Solipistic in philosophical nature, but with an added twist. I have my own off the wall lunatic theories but I relagate them to fantasy land unless they prove otherwise.

Lunatic theories of my own:

Solipistic Hell: This is a idea which springs from a "two entities" idea, one entity being myself (the prisoner) and another (the warden who controls the world), basically "everyone" else would be a sock/lich puppet of the Warden, everytime I would be speaking to a seemingly indivual person I would actually be speaking infact to the same entity using a marionette to interact with me. The generally idea is that "I'm forgetting who I am" and that I've done something unbeknownst to myself that has deemed me "dangerous" so the Warden has locked me in a simulated reality of sorts to keep me "under control".

My other "simulated reality" lunatic theories revolve around the same "two entities" principle with different twists added.

I had the idea that most other people were actors who'd been given the script that told them how to act and how things worked, and that this was how they knew so many things that I didn't, particularly things about social behaviour.

I used to, and still do, think about this all the time. I just can't help the feeling that everyone else is a robot, who claims to have thoughts and feelings but acts according to a specific set of principles, or only follows through on extremely predictable actions. I find it ironic that people often tell me I'm unpredictable and they never what I'll say or do, as if that's a bad thing. I'd rather be a human than a robot! I think this whole "is everyone else just pretending??" notion is why I felt so moved by the movie, The Truman Show. To those who haven't seen it, I HIGHLY recommend it--it stars Jim Carrey as a man whose entire life, and the people in his environment, are strictly controlled and given scripts about how to treat him; all of his interactions and adventures are then broadcast on TV to the "real world" as "The Truman Show." I've ALWAYS felt that way about my own life!

As a kid and teen I did but as soon as I invested my time in psychology and chatted to other people I see this is a problem with most intellectuals or others because of that social awkrawdness or lack of desire , the brain switches out as with intellctuals the situation of people not understanding yor view points are either thosse of supremecy or inadequateness, its just a lesson learnt deal being autistic, I still kinda feel it now to be frank but oh well the world spins on

My semi-makebelieve theory when I was a child and a teenager was that I was a changeling alien who had been brought to Earth as an infant. The humans, because they were all of the same species, had abilities to communicate with each other in ways that I couldn't understand due to my alien nature. Eventually, after years of study and observation, I was able to comprehend some of the humans' behavior, but I was still slow at communicating with them and interpreting their responses, like someone who learns a foreign language after the sensitive period for language acquisition has passed.

Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I have realized that while I am not a transplanted alien, I do process information differently than non-autistic people do, which means that when I interact with neurotypicals, I seem foreign to them, as they do to me.

When I joined my first Asperger's support group earlier this year, I realized for the first time in my life that there are people in the world to whom I make *immediate* sense, and who make immediate sense to me, without me having to go through an elaborate process of explaining why I operate in the way that I do. In the group, I don't have to waste extra energy maintaining my aspie-to-neurotypical two-way translator, and as such, I am able to engage in these interactions without going into a state of overwhelm. These meetings are the first time I have ever truly enjoyed a group social interaction.

I have come to realize that I am not a lonely alien in a world of humans, but that there are other people who can "grock" me (i.e. understand me), and whom I can "grock" as well.

My $0.02.

~ Caterina

yes. being a christian i understand that a lot of people are empty shells who are used by satan as 'puppets' or marionettes, it's not that they're not 'real' people, but it's very easy for satan to occupy their empty spaces and at such times, they aren't 'real'.

mm I didn't believe it until I actually asked the question (took me 3 years to work up to it) "Demon, what is your name?". That was 15 years ago and I've had to ask that question many times now.

To this day I feel like an android programmed to act how people really should be acting. Of course, with a few glitches here and there.