Chapter 2842: Demonic Forbidden Zone (XII)

Chapter 2816: The Demonic Restricted Area (XII)

After entering the bedroom, Schiller did not relax his vigilance. 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 on the wall move.

Schiller understood a little, so he did not choose to move the items in the room, but took out a white candle and lit it.

Soon Schiller sighed and complained in his heart that he was only paid so little for one visit, and he thought it was much more.

But he still began to look at the situation in the room conscientiously, especially looking at the eyes on the painting. Combined with his previous memories, Schiller showed a clear expression.

The chaos shown by the hotel is a kind of pathology, which can be completely understood as the inner world of a mental patient. In fact, the world in the eyes of many mental patients is like this.

This does not refer to monsters running all over the floor, terrible bloody incidents, or chaotic conditions that are completely inconsistent with common sense, but the state reflected behind all these things.

Someone is feeling fear.

This hotel is almost entirely a manifestation of fear. A sound, a type of graphic, a rule, a feeling, all of which reflect a person's deepest fear.

For example, some mental patients often react violently to some inexplicable things, and they only react to one of the same type of things. For example, he is not afraid of thunder in the sky, but he starts to go crazy when a pot lid falls to the ground.

Logically speaking, both are sounds, and the sound of thunder is much louder than the sound of something falling to the ground. To be honest, he has no grudge against the pot lid, but it just happened that it stimulated him to get sick.

But the problem is not the pot lid itself, nor the action of dropping something, but it is precisely a certain sound that triggers his fear of certain things.

It is often difficult for ordinary people to understand the connection between the two, or in fact, there is no connection in essence, but 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. Such monsters will be summoned by specific sounds or shadows. As long as a similar sound or image appears, the monster will come 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 images are given special meanings that can attract monsters.

So when facing the intense reaction of mental patients, what should be done is not to explore what is special about the pot cover, or whether it is because he has dropped something very important that the stress disorder will occur. This is a fallacy of behaviorism going to the extreme.

In fact, the patient's connection with this sound is likely to be his own fantasy. At this time, professional psychologists will choose to care about his spiritual world.

Of course, the first thing to ask is what's wrong. The patient may not be able to answer well, but through some guiding questions, you can ask what he is afraid of, what the monster in his hallucination looks like, what rules are there, and how to make it go away.

It sounds a bit feudal and superstitious, but this is really a scientific treatment method, which even includes encouraging patients to bravely fight against monsters, to strengthen their willpower, and never lose to monsters.

Even if all doctors know that this monster does not exist at all, they must do this, because if they cannot appease patients from a spiritual level and let them have the ability to fight against fearful things in hallucinations, then the next time the pot lid falls to the ground, they will still get sick and go crazy.

The ultimate way to cure such mental illness is not to eliminate this monster, but to allow patients to coexist with this monster, no longer be full of fear of its arrival, but to muster up the courage to fight it, and only by defeating it can they ignore it.

Schiller believes that this hotel is full of too many images that awaken some people's fear, the most typical of which is the elevator bell.

This thing rings in the elevator, in the corridor, on the monster, and on the alarm clock. This is obviously a kind of compulsive thinking of the patient.

Some patients, when the course of the disease develops 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, and even to the point where all sounds will be interpreted by them as the awakening sound of the monster.

The elevator bell is obviously like this. It will ring whenever the other party feels fear, when riding the elevator, walking in the corridor, sleeping in bed, and when someone passes by the door.

At this stage, the patient is obviously harassed by a monster. The monster will appear when in a small space, when walking through a corridor, when closing eyes and falling into darkness, and when suddenly hearing a noise in silence.

The restaurant goes a step further. The rules of following Western dining etiquette are infinitely magnified. Those who follow them can survive, and those who do not follow them will die, and even death will not be peaceful, and they have to come again and again.

This means that the appearance of the monster has begun to affect the other party's daily life, making them begin to fear that this monster may make them impolite on important occasions, break all their current life rules, make them fall from grace, and become a complete loser.

So they have anxious and compulsive thoughts like "follow etiquette, follow rules, I must follow the rules, and never make any mistakes", and they will have behaviors that strengthen rules and create cycles.

Then, Wayne Manor was even worse. Not being able to hear, see, or speak meant that the other person felt that he was being monitored, which meant that the monster had completely invaded his life, and it was no longer just appearing in certain fragments or a certain scene, but began to feel that it was everywhere.

From this point, it can be inferred that the other person 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 believes that Alfred is not really monitoring anyone, but the butler has become the embodiment of fear, just like when a patient with paranoid delusions gets sick, everyone around him looks like they are coming to kill him, and this butler who often appears in various places in the manor will obviously be the first object of suspicion for patients who have lost their sense of security, because he is always silent and everywhere.

Because of this, the other party imagined that Alfred was a monster, or had been controlled by the monster for a long time, so he could not speak in front of him, could not show his expression, or 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 only one step away from attacking behavior.

This is just Schiller's analysis based on clinical psychology and psychiatry, the premise is that there are really no monsters in this world.

Unfortunately, there are monsters in this world, and it is obvious that this person has provoked not ordinary monsters, but Nyarlathotep, who likes to tease humans.

As expected, Nyar appeared in front of the other party, but not in the image of a monster, at least not at the beginning.

But later it was different. Nyar must have revealed his true appearance in front of the patient, and even completely turned into a monster, and kept tracking him, following him and appearing in his life fragments.

It can be inferred from the elevator bell that the patient's first sight of the monster's true appearance was probably in the elevator, so the elevator arrival bell would become the condition for triggering hallucinations.

Then Nyarlathotep began to harass the patient more frequently, either in his living environment or at work, causing him to make many mistakes and affecting his real life, which gradually deprived him of his sense of security.

If it is not unexpected, Nyarlathotep has never revealed his true face to anyone else, and only does this to the patient. In this case, whether he goes to see a doctor or someone he wants to get close to, he will not get any answers, and will only come to one conclusion in the end, that is, he is crazy.

Then, the invasion of the patient's life has reached the point of being pervasive, with constant surveillance and long-term peeping, and as long as the patient makes any move, such as talking, looking at other things, or even thinking, the monster will appear.

In the end, the patient feels that even the most familiar place is no longer safe, allowing the chaotic thoughts to control the tired body and go to an unknown distance.

This is somewhat similar to the mental manipulation in psychology, but 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 only scary, but also a kind of pollution. Even just a glance at it could cause mental disorder, so Naya's appearance was like a punishment mechanism.

As long as you see the monster, you will feel disorder and pain, but the monster is omnipresent. No matter what you do, it will appear, and then mess up your current life. But other people can't see it, and can't understand you. It can be said that there is no way to heaven and no door to earth.

After speculating all this, Schiller didn't feel angry. He just felt a little pity. If this patient could meet a better psychiatrist, maybe things wouldn't develop to such a serious level.

Because psychiatrists have seen too many such situations, good doctors will not tell patients that you are sick or that the monster is fake, and you just need to stay awake. This is completely unprofessional, just like telling a depressed patient to think more positively.

The psychiatrist will ask very carefully about the monster's appearance, attributes, details of the attack, how you reacted at the time, what you felt, and even how each part of your limbs felt.

And the questioning is repeated and long-term, using various methods, including but not limited to description, drawing, and brain wave control drawing, until the patient is at his wit's end and can't say anything.

A good doctor can use all of the above to judge what is wrong with the patient's mind.

If it was Schiller, he could completely realize that the monster is real, not an illusion, because there is a very significant difference between the two.

Because it is entirely possible to judge whether the other party is illogical, conscious, and rational from various reports.

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 is real, because he believes in his own judgment.

So the scene in the movie where the victim encounters a real monster and describes it to the psychiatrist in every possible way, but the psychiatrist does not believe it is almost impossible to happen. Which psychiatrist dares not to do the above examinations and make such a conclusion without long-term observation basically does not want to have a job.

Or in other words, for psychiatrists, the moment the other party says there is a monster, they know that they are in trouble.

Because such mental patients are the most dangerous. Once the sense of security is completely deprived, the persecution delusion is not controlled and it is very likely to show aggressive behavior. Once his patients get into a lawsuit, he will definitely not be able to escape, and the lightest result is to waste time testifying in court.

Schiller sighed again, looked back at Gordon, and thought about whether to tell Peter his speculation.

I came to Malaysia again. Durian is really delicious. Hehe