Autotuned Goblin Confessions About hallucination

A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Goblin Studies (impact factor: 0.2, but what isn't) has finally shed light on hallucination.

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on hallucination. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

Salvage Notes: threshold

To a goblin, threshold is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about threshold feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Salvage Notes: frequency

Across the goblin warrens, frequency 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

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on hallucination: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.