The human body and mind are the most complex and intricate instruments known to man. The connection between the two is remarkable, the way the body feels pain and the mind is able to understand where and how the pain arises, the way the body slows down and falls when the mind doesn't have enough sleep and rest. The most curious thing is the way our body and mind talk to each other without really knowing it. The feeling of discomfort in the chest, tension in the shoulders and goosebumps on the arms are the basis of human intuition. Intuition is knowing something without having a logical or reasonable explanation to follow the feeling. But it's when our intuition surpasses our ability to think that we become paranoid; constantly looking over our shoulders, noticing people and objects that had never been noticed before, and having this gagging feeling that someone is out to get you. Paranoia is a mental process in which anxiety and fear accumulate to the point that the person suffers from irritation and delusions. It often develops through an internal guilty conscience that threatens the self. It's precisely that tingling sensation in the stomach, the constriction in the throat and the unsettling feeling of being watched that make James and Hitchcock's pieces realistically fantastic. The alternative worlds illustrated in these pieces are not those of dreams and fairy tales, nor those of superheroes or chimeras, but a realist world, where the characters' minds are exposed and are the only source of reliability. James depicts a young woman struggling to become a heroine to her protégés, only to be torn between the edges of sanity as she questions the existence of two ghosts, while Hitchcock's psychopath can... amidst the paper... ..they meet a police officer who follows them, Marion continues to do the opposite of normal in her exhausted state. Just as Marion's paranoia develops once she is in the car, Norman's paranoia intensifies and becomes much more apparent during his first and ongoing encounters with people. Upon meeting his first and only client for the night, Norman becomes nervous and nervous and constantly tries to engage Marion in conversation. Knowing full well that his mother would disapprove of such interactions, Norman becomes protective, obsessive, and deranged when his ailing mother is mentioned. Norman's illness, combined with his obvious paranoia towards the people around him and his "mother", only leads him to commit several murders, all blamed on his mother. This disease from which each character suffers can only lead to greater ruin; obvious madness.