Truman Show Syndrome: Why People Think They're Living In A Reality Show
The Truman Show Paramount Pictures Sufferers of the "Truman Show" syndrome imagine a world where everyone is watching them. And they're just barely wrong. What do you do when delusions and paranoia look an awful lot like the real world? That's at least one question raised by a New Yorker article out this week on the "Truman Show" syndrome (pay-walled online, but worth shelling out the money for a print version), where people are convinced they've somehow woken up famous, the stars of a worldwide reality TV show. The name comes from the 1998 film, where that exact thing happens to Jim Carrey. The author, Andrew Marantz, tells the story of Nick Lotz, who suffers from the delusions: Suddenly, Lotz solved the puzzle of his life. Since starting college, he had been the star of a reality-TV show. The network had kept the cameras hidden, as in "Candid Camera"...