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jberryhill

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4. Song lyrics
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 12:13 PM
Mar 2016

"Lyrics of many songs described what I was doing and where I was going, while providing advice."

Song lyrics are pretty much designed to relate to what people may be experiencing at different times and different moods.

Yes, I usually listen to the radio when I'm working and, unsurprisingly, songs on the radio often refer to things I may be thinking or feeling. But that's what lyrics are designed to do - resonate with people's moods and thoughts.

Persons with various forms of psychosis often believe that songs on the radio are speaking directly to them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas_of_reference_and_delusions_of_reference

Persons with ideas of reference may experience:

A feeling that people on television or radio are talking about or talking directly to them
Believing that headlines or stories in newspapers are written especially for them
Believing that events (even world events) have been deliberately contrived for them, or have special personal significance for them
Believing that the lyrics of a song are specifically about them


Have you ever thought that perhaps instead of an international effort to mess with you, that there may be a problem with your perception?
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