THEY CALLED ME CRAZY: Extraordinary Interviews with Minds

WHAT IF THE PEOPLE WE CALL "CRAZY" ARE THE ONLY ONES SEEING CLEARLY?The first time Jimmy Wang met a man who could hear colors, he expected to record a symptom. Red was C major. Blue was E-flat. Purple was a chord no human language could describe. But when the man finished, he asked a question Wang could not answer: "Do you think I'm crazy?"They Called Me Crazy is a collection of forty accounts from people whose minds work in ways most of us can barely imagine. People the world dismissed, medicated, mocked, and stopped listening to. People who see time as a physical landscape. Who believe reality resets itself while everyone else sleeps. Who are convinced our universe is a simulation - and offer evidence far harder to dismiss than you expect.Inside, you will meet: - A young woman who claims her dreams are connected to other people's dreams - and that every night, she enters someone else's dream instead of her own.- A man who believes time moves backward, and that the memories you have today are events that have not happened yet.- A software engineer who is convinced our universe is a computer simulation - and presents astonishing evidence to support his conclusion.- A mathematician who argues that every event in the universe is predetermined, because with enough information, the entire future could be calculated.- An elderly man who claims he can communicate with the dead using a machine he built himself.- A woman who believes the person in the mirror is not really her - and that everyone around her has been replaced by doubles.Most people dismiss these stories immediately.But what happens when the people telling them sound intelligent, thoughtful, and completely sincere? What happens when their worlds begin to make a disturbing kind of sense?Jimmy Wang does not tell you these accounts are true. He does not tell you they are false. He simply writes down what he was told - and leaves the verdict to you.Because the most unsettling ideas in this book come from the very people society was quickest to dismiss. Their reasoning is often disturbingly logical. Their worlds are often startlingly complete. And once you step inside them, one question becomes impossible to ignore: What if the people we call "crazy" are not the ones who misunderstand the world?Read their stories. Follow their reasoning. Then decide for yourself where sanity ends - and something else begins.They Called Me Crazy is Book One of the Observer Bias series, inspired by real psychological phenomena. The questions it asks will follow you long after the last page.