Is it normal to think you're in a reality tv show?

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This isn't a major issue for me, and in fact I now find it quite amusing, I just wanted to see if anyone else ever felt this.

Back at uni I started getting freaked out by coincidences, and things that happened to me that were too weirdly personal to me to be random. It made me think I was being watched and that someone was orchestrating events that happened on a daily basis. Like I was in some kind of reality tv show, like the Jim Carrey film The Truman Show.

I couldn't believe that coincidences were just coincidences or random moments of chance, and I began getting quite paranoid about it all. There may have been certain substances at uni that contributed to this paranoia (!), but it even got to the stage where I thought random people in the street and even friends were actors or extras in the show!? I would even talk to the 'director' when something happened - under my breath obviously and not out loud like a mad man. So if I tripped over or stubbed my toe when I was on my own, I'd say "Hope you got that on camera"!?

It sounds stupid and incredibly egotistical explaining it now, but sometimes things happen that are too weird for me to just past off as coincidences.

Does anyone else ever think that? I'd love to know if anyone else had freakishly weird encounters or things happened to them that made you think it had to be set up! Ha ha!

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  • Louie
    13 years ago | pl

    There is an Intergalactic reality show called "Earth" they take being from all different planets like giraffes, hawks, and Asians and they put them all on one planet, and hilarious shenaneginns ensue

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  • iGornet
    13 years ago | pl

    I went throught the 'Me Show' stage too. The feeling has gone now though.

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  • ieatrocksdirt
    13 years ago | pl

    i have had the same wierd feeling. its gotten so bad that i thought for sure that my boyfriend was in on it... i used to get self consious thinking that the whole world was watchin so i wouldnt do anything "wierd" like dancing badly in my bedroom, singing, even farting when i was completely alone was incredibly embarrasing.
    certian coincidences just seem scripted and completly planned out too.
    im really glad that someone else out there has these same feelings. lol

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