In this article I aim to understand meaning construction from a cultural psychological stance and investigate how human beings - both individually and collectively - create norms and beliefs that become guidelines for how we perceive. The real and the imaginary are closely intertwined- sometimes to the extent that one of them is taken for the other. Considering some specific product of the imagination as if it is real amounts to a delusion — the topic of this paper. A person constructs and attributes meaning and associations to objects and people and these constructions have been made by both personal and socially shared ideas. The dilemma seems to be concerning perspectives on truth and what lies prior to the determination of this. The attempt of this article and the autoethnographic research is to comprehend the extent and diversity of delusions. This will be examined in the attempt to investigate and distinguish delusions from everyday life to what can be considered pathological hence scrutinize the borderline of healthy versus maladaptive. This borderline will furthermore be discussed with the basis of symptom criteria from the ICD- and DSM diagnosis systems. This seems to be of big importance when diagnostically comprehend the pathological elements of the delusions in the sense that the judgement could come to determine life situation. These discussions lead to an understanding of delusions as semiotically made when distinguishing between general versus pathological psychological conditions.

在本文中，我旨在从文化心理立场上理解意义的建构，并研究人类如何（无论是个体还是集体）创造规范和信念，这些规范和信念将成为我们感知的准则。实部和虚部紧密地交织在一起-有时达到了其中一个被另一个拿走的程度。考虑想象力的某些特定产物，就好像它是真实的一样，构成了一种错觉—本文的主题。一个人建构并赋予对象和人以意义和联想，而这些建构是由个人和社会共享的观念所做出的。困境似乎与对真理的观点以及确定真理之前的观点有关。本文和自传民族志研究的尝试是为了理解妄想的程度和多样性。将对此进行检查，以试图调查和区分日常生活中的妄想症，并认为是病理性的，因此仔细研究了健康与不良适应症之间的界限。此外，还将根据ICD和DSM诊断系统的症状标准来讨论这一界限。当从诊断上可以判断生活状况时，这在诊断上理解妄想的病理因素时，这似乎非常重要。通过这些讨论，您可以区分一般心理疾病和病理心理疾病，并以符号学的方式来理解错觉。