In its extreme form, it appears as mania.

We all fall prey to it to some degree. Finding a balance between delusion and disappointment can be harder than you'd think. Sometimes things go well, and you expect it to go even better. Sometimes it is comfortable to believe a lie you told yourself.

The 'law of attraction'/my-will-bends-the-world/"I am God"-delusion is an example i have seen in the wild.

In itself, it might feel exciting in the moment, but embarrasments typically lie in wait after it settles. "Yeah, i used to sincerely believe i was God....". In common with other delusions, a loss of touch with reality ensues, which in turn invites more delusions to manifest.

I much prefer youtube to serve as more of a open-loop system, rather than a closed-loop system. Remember the youtube algorithm in the 2000s that couldn't predict people's internal minds? I've now figured i can turn off microphone access, as well as many other system permissions for MicroG (open source Google mobile services proxy) without impacting any of my apps' basic functioning, despite warnings of "boo hoo some systems might not work with insufficient permissions!!!", blah blah whatever. Suddenly i can tell the youtube algorithm no longer predicts my mental patterns as well as before, possibly lacking data points such as continual microphone, camera, position and IMU surveillance. It seems like the digital twin of my personhood is losing precision, acting only on the information i deliberately give it. For those with similar systems, where GMS is not implemented as an unmanageable rootkit, but rather under direct user control, such as on rooted Android phones: i highly recommend limiting MicroG's permissions. They are not needed. They only serve to collect data on you to create a digital twin in order to manipulate you and make every human on earth a chess-piece. The results seem promising. Turn the tables against brain control NOW!

For those wondering; yes, you need a rooted android phone in order to do this. Rooting your phone is a neccessity if you want any kind of control of your own system. Either that, or get a dumb-phone.

Take control, or be taken control of, or retard-maxx to the point of becoming uncontrollable. That's the paradigm. If a choice is not made, your hand will be forced.