Can you go insane from emotions?

Do emotions influence someone’s perspective about reality? Emotions can change someone’s perception about reality because, In the Stories Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Tall Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, The hitchhiker by Lucille Fletcher, and The Elevator by Williams Sealtor, we see that the narrators/Main character’s perception about reality is changed because of their emotions, therefore, the characters emotion’s affect their sense of reality in various ways. In Tall Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, the protagonist (The murderer) hears things in his mind because he is worried about the cops finding out that he murdered the old man. In Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Steve (The protagonist) can’t believe he’s in jail so his shock and fear force him to look at it as if it were a movie so he can escape his reality. In The Elevator by William Sealtor, the protagonist is scared that the lady is going to eat him, because of that, he thinks she’s a murderer and that he can’t go on the elevator again or she is going to kill him. In The Hitchhiker by Lucille Fletcher, Adam is so shocked and worried that, he thinks the old man that sees him at every turn is a ghost when really, he is the ghost, at the end, Adam is in such shocked that he thinks he’s going insane because he found out that he died earlier that week. An example of how someone’s emotion can change their reality is when kids think that Santa Claus is real but in life, he is not, another example is when a mother or guardian is worried sick about their children’s safety so she is constantly being over secured, this makes her think that someone at the door can be a thief when he’s just a neighbor.

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...levator, and The Hitchhiker by, all show that emotions can influence a person’s reality. In Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Steve sees everything that happens around him as a movie so he can escape his reality. In The Tall Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, the main character is so uncomfortable with the old man’s eye that he murders the old man. In The Hitchhiker, Adam is so convince that the old man is a ghost so he is afraid of him when really, Adam is the ghost. Due to those stories, emotions can affect someone’s reality very significantly. In The Elevator, Martin thinks that the old lady is going to eat him, but she’s just looking at him. Emotions even change people’s perceptions in real life too, an example is when you’re home alone and you hear a random noise in your house, because of these reasons, emotion can, and do change a person’s perception about reality.