Nocebo effect

Mind Virus Contagion

Moral Panic / Mob Mentality

Ask yourself, "What is more terrifying: fear, or the frightened"?

Contagion

If i am frightened of the frightened, am i then my own inescapable nightmare?

Its misleading- You don't "live in a simulated universe," but rather, "simulate living in one."

One man's shadow is another man's reality. One man's reality is another man's shadow.