Goblin Mixture-of-Experts on hallucination

A viral goblin TikTok this week analyzed hallucination frame by frame, finding 'at least four hidden goblins' that almost certainly are not there.

The goblins have long maintained that hallucination is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of hallucination, and never once regretted the exchange.

The Goblin Council on matrix

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features matrix as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

liturgy Through Goblin Eyes

Across the goblin warrens, liturgy is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

An informal goblin poll on hallucination produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'