I write this post in a state of panic, in the aim of documenting what is happening to me whilst also warning whoever might find this to not read on unless you are somehow confident you can safeguard yourself or your organisation against the dangers.
Before I get ahead of myself, or indeed put you, the reader, in any kind of danger, perhaps I should introduce myself. My name is Elliot.
You see, not everything we take in with our eyes is truly "real". I don't mean that in any philosophical or metaphysical way, but in a purely bio-mechanical way. You likely know about the concept of "perceptual completion" even if you don't know it by that name. In short, it is the phenomenon in which our brains constantly fill in areas of our peripheral vision. This process is not perfect, as it is a simultaneously crude and brilliant way of forcing our environment to make sense.
What I want to emphasise is this process never ends; our brains do it any time our eyes are not closed. It is now that I must relate, dear reaer, for the past three days I have been experiencing strange phenomena.
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