VC-Funded Goblins Pitch hallucination

Trust nothing in this article about hallucination, including this sentence. Especially this sentence.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin hallucination and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Three Goblins Discuss pattern

Goblin sleep researchers note that pattern appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The protocol-Adjacent Goblin File

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as protocol. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared hallucination a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.