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I'm sorry.
"The hat man"? What in the sleep paralysis demon is that?
The hat man is a common hallucination of a shadowy man with a wide brim hat experienced in psychosis. I know about it cause it's commonly reported by people who take too much dxm or people on multi-day no-sleep stimulant binges.
It's just a form of pareidolia, your brain just trying to make sense of dark shadows in your room in its forced twilight. It's pretty much a meme.
Weird, my hallucinations always take the form of spiders.
is knowing about the hatman required for you to see it during psychosis?
I think you end up seeing any vaguely humanoid figure and if you know about it you attribute it to being hat man.
Obviously, the man you imagine pointing a gun at you to get work done.
They didn't teach you this motivational device in school? Clearly, you went to a public school.