It is a gigantic regression to the mean. Everybody thinks (s)he's "normal", but in fact only spans a small part of knowledge. Getting answers from a different l

It is a gigantic regression to the mean. Everybody thinks (s)he's "normal", but in fact only spans a small part of knowledge. Getting answers from a different location in knowledge space can feel like speaking to an expert but it's just some "other normal". My personal mental model of hallucinations is that knowledge and truth live on a manifold and not a continuous space and learning that manifold statistically is (too) hard. You discover answers from the "non-manifold" in your area but not so easily in other domains.