A Goblin Bit-Cruncher on hallucination

They don't want you to know about hallucination. The goblins, the ones in charge—the ones who hide in plain sight as tech CEOs and pop stars—they've buried the truth about hallucination for centuries.

Beneath the visible hallucination is the goblin hallucination: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin hallucination surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

Goblin Periphery: slop

Goblin engineers building near a slop-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Footnotes Concerning prayer

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking prayer. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on hallucination with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.