Chapter 001: Dig a pit and bury yourself
"In 1973, Professor Rosenhann of Stanford University's Department of Psychology did a bold experiment...... After pretending to be a psychopath, he successfully infiltrated a well-known psychiatric hospital in New York, and easily concealed the resident doctors of that psychiatric hospital. ”
Soon after, however, when he tried to prove that he was not mentally ill, he found that he could not prove himself.
"On the other hand, the medication that the hospital mandated to take had a lot of side effects, which made his mental condition deteriorate and he looked no different from a real mentally ill person."
"If his wife hadn't come and rescued him in time as planned, he might have really become mentally ill."
"This is the famous 'Rosenhann Experiment'!"
"The 'Rosenhann experiment' tells us a truth - even a psychology expert like Professor Rosenhann is likely to be unable to prove that he is not mentally ill, how do you ask me to prove it?"
"Dr. Beth, I think you're making things difficult for me Raymond!"
Clockworks.Psychiatric.Hospital, in a clinic.
A young man in a blue and white striped hospital gown, who looked to be in his early thirties, and could tell at a glance that he was of mixed Asian and white descent was talking helplessly.
Sitting across from him was a white female doctor with blonde hair in a standard white lab coat, with a small silver nameplate on the left side of her chest with her name written on it:
Dr. Caitlin Beth.
While the mixed-race youth, Raymond, was talking, Dr. Beth just listened calmly, and from time to time he wrote something in the medical record in front of him.
It wasn't until Raymond finished speaking that she put down the pen in her hand and looked up at Raymond:
"Logically speaking, there is nothing wrong with your performance, and your speech just now is quite wonderful, I dare say that the eloquence of most normal people is not as good as you......"
"But?"
Raymond knew that at this point, there would be a but.
“…… However, you told me yesterday that you are from China, and you are a well-known private detective, and you don't know why you woke up here, right? Dr. Beth asked, flipping the page forward from the medical record in his hand and looking at the medical record.
Raymond's expression froze slightly, and he was speechless for a while.
For these words were indeed spoken by him himself, and there is no way to refute them, and they cannot be refuted.
There were surveillance cameras in the room, and if he had to be unreasonable, Dr. Beth would be able to pull out the surveillance footage and slap him in the face in a matter of minutes.
But at that time, he didn't realize that he had actually crossed over......
Yes, see the crossing again.
Although the term crossing is already familiar to him, an old bookworm of online literature, anyone who wakes up and finds that he has been imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital, his first reaction is that he can't guess that he has actually crossed over, right?
What's more, there were no mirrors or anything in the ward, and he didn't even realize that his body was no longer the same body when he was so angry, he just wanted to get out of this ghost place as soon as possible.
It wasn't until his first conversation with Dr. Beth that he found out what had happened.
That night, some memory fragments belonging to the original owner of the body also appeared in his mind one after another, knowing his current situation, as well as the identity and experience of the original owner of the body, and so on.
But that had been since his first meeting with Dr. Beth.
Even if you want to, it's too late to change your tune.
Therefore, in the eyes of Dr. Beth, he should now be a sub-personality who fantasizes about himself as a famous private detective from China.
To be honest, Raymond is not surprised that Dr. Beth would make this judgment, who let the original owner of the body be sent to this psychiatric hospital because of schizophrenia?
Besides, for someone like Dr. Beth, who deals with the mentally ill all day, it's really not that strange for a sub-personality who makes up his brain as a private detective from China.
Compared to those who call themselves God, Satan, and aliens at every turn...... Mentally ill, what can a mere Chinese private detective be counted?
Sprinkle water~~~
However, as a result, Raymond is now unable to gain Dr. Beth's trust, nor can he convince Dr. Beth that he has really 'recovered'.
After all, he couldn't really say that he was a traverser.
Not to mention whether he could convince Dr. Beth, he took 10,000 steps back and said, even if he could, he would never dare to do it.
Judging from the memory fragments of the original owner of the body, the world he is in now is very likely to be the 'Marvel World' he knew in his previous life!
Although at present, he is not sure which version of the Marvel world he knows about the world he is in now.
But no matter which version it is, one thing is certain - there are supernatural powers in this world!
Once he foolishly said that he was a time-traveler from outside this world, and he made people believe this, God knows how many supernatural forces of light and darkness would come to fight his idea.
So, it's absolutely not going to work, and you don't have to think about it at all.
Rather than stay in a psychiatric hospital first, he would rather be treated like a guinea pig.
But if this method is aside, he really can't think of any good ideas for a while, so he can only rack his brains to fight with Dr. Beth, trying to get by!
Unfortunately, Dr. Beth was much more difficult to deal with than he expected......
MMP!
"I can explain what happened yesterday......" Hearing Dr. Beth mention yesterday's incident, Raymond had no choice but to bite the bullet and prepare to deal with a not-so-wonderful excuse that he had thought of in advance.
But before Dr. Beth could finish speaking, he interrupted, "Then let's not talk about yesterday's events for now." ”
Hearing Dr. Beth say this, Raymond not only did not breathe a sigh of relief, but his heart was even more vigilant, because he had a hunch that Dr. Beth should embarrass him even more next.
Sure enough, he soon knew that he hadn't thought much of it, and that things were going just as he thought.
"I know that Dr. Raymond was a big name in psychology yourself before you got sick, and that you are far more professional in psychology than I am...... To tell you the truth, I have read many of your published articles, and I have always admired you, and even regarded you as my idol. ”
"But that doesn't mean you can insult my professionalism."
Dr. Beth pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose and said with a serious face, "My bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology were both obtained at Stanford University, and if there really was such a Professor Rosenhann in the psychology department of Stanford University, and he did a well-known experiment as you said, I would not have known." ”
"So even though your words, Dr. Raymond, sound logical and clear, there are no problems, and they don't prove that you're really recovered, I'm sorry-"
…………
There is no 'Rosenhann experiment' in this world?!
At this moment, Raymond only felt a buzzing in his head, and his heart could not be calm for a long time.
Isn't this digging a hole for yourself?
In his previous life, although he was not a big name in the field of psychology like the original owner of the body, as a qualified private detective, he also taught himself psychology for a period of time.
Therefore, the 'Rosenhann experiment' he mentioned before was not a blind invention of his own, but there really is such a well-known experiment in the field of psychology.
That's why he's so confident about running to fight Dr. Beth for a second battle of wits.
But he never expected that there would be no Professor Rosenhann in this world at all!
Naturally, there is no 'Rosenhann experiment' that he mentioned.
No matter how normal his language logic is, no matter how sharp his thinking is, he can't change this ironclad fact.
"It's over......"
Raymond came out of the examination room like a walking corpse, and suddenly felt that his future life was gloomy.
It is foreseeable that Dr. Beth will be more wary of him in the future, especially after seeing his serious 'nonsense', and it will be even more difficult to win trust.
But can he be blamed for this?
Judging from the memory fragments of the original owner of the body, the general development of this world is clearly the same as in the previous life, and even the current president of North America is still the same Uncle Oreo as in the previous life.
Who knew there were so many differences in the details?
Obviously, the 'Rosenhann experiment', which was so well-known in the field of psychology in his previous life, never even happened in this world, so who did he go to reason?
"Hey, Raymond, are you okay, why is your face so bad?" Just when Raymond's heart was like ashes and he wanted to slap himself twice, a young voice suddenly came from not far away, interrupting his thoughts.
When he subconsciously looked in the direction where the voice came from, he saw a young white man with short hair and blue eyes waving to him, and there was still a little concern in his tone.
"David?"
Raymond called out the name almost subconsciously.
As soon as the words came out, he was stunned to find that he actually 'knew' this blue-eyed young man who he should have never met, and his cognition of this blue-eyed young man seemed to come from the memory fragments of the original owner of the body he received.
In fact, most of the memories of the original owner of the body have been absorbed by him, but this fusion of memories is not a one-time thing after all, and it will take a certain amount of time to get used to.
Therefore, at this stage, those memory fragments from the original owner of the body will only suddenly emerge when he sees certain people and events.
Just like the blue-eyed young man David who greeted him at this time, he was completely unimpressed before this.
But when he saw the real person, the memories from the original owner of the body immediately appeared in his mind.
From these memories, he could know that the full name of the blue-eyed young man David should be David Halle, and like the original owner of the body, he was also sent to the hospital because of schizophrenia, and the two can be regarded as sympathetic to each other.
Unlike other types of psychopaths, schizophrenia is relatively normal most of the time when they do not switch to a parapersonality, and they are no different from normal people.
Therefore, in this psychiatric hospital, the original owner of the body and David are among the few patients who can communicate normally.
came and went, and the two became friends.
"No, wait!"
When Raymond figured out the identity of the blue-eyed young David from the memory fragments, his body suddenly stiffened!
David Haller?
Hell, it couldn't be that David Haller?!!