Truman Show Plot: Difference between revisions

== [[Real Life]] ==

* [[Real Life]] is not an example of this trope! Now get back to troping.

** There's actually a real life phenomenon known as "Truman Show Delusion" (a persecutory/grandoise delusion suffered by some schizophrenics) in which people think they're being watched as part of a TV show. [[Sibling Team]] psychiatrists Joel and Ian Gold coined the term in 2008. Several of their patients have referenced the film explicitly in describing their delusion.

* Apparently, [[Andy Kaufman]]. When he was a child he would address a hole in the wall, seemingly under the belief that it contained a camera and he was on TV. This was adapted in his biopic, [[Man On the Moon]], which appropriately enough starred Truman himself, [[Jim Carrey]]. It's unclear whether Andy actually believed this or was just kidding (like so much of his behavior), even as a kid.