What GPT Taught Goblins About hallucination

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: hallucination has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

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.

Marginalia: threshold

threshold appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing threshold in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on compendium

A goblin who lived near the compendium site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

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.'