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Melinda: How are you doing?Eli: You're asking me that?Melinda: You're the one with the ghost problem.Eli: No, I'm the one with post traumatic stress. I lost a patient.And in case you forgot I kinda died. It takes a lot less to make someone think youheard voices. Is he refering to Melinda or he's talking of himself? And does it meanit's easier to say he heard voices? Melinda: Sounds very rational.

Avangi · Accepted Answer

I have the feeling your underscored passage is missing a word.   - A.

Madhulk · Answer

AvangiI have the feeling your underscored passage is missing a word. - A.

It's corrected now.

Avangi · Answer

Madhulk And in case you forgot I kinda died. It takes a lot less to make someone think you heard voices.

I think he's talking about himself. A person is more easily convinced he's hearing voices after he's "kinda died."

In my opinion the sentence is poorly written, using "someone" and "you" in referring to the same person. It's like saying, "When someone is walking in the dark, you must be careful." How many people are we talking about?? (Maybe I have it wrong.) - A.

Madhulk · Answer

There are only two people in this conversation. Melinda, who sees ghosts
and Eli a psychiatrist who doesn't believe in them but starts hearing them
after he almost died but was saved by the paramedics. So my question is still open for
'It takes a lot less to make someone think you heard voices.'(why the past tense?)
And does it mean it's just easier if you say you're hearing voices as in
it's easier people to just take you for a nut job?

Avangi · Answer

I'll stick with bad writing. Seeing ghosts and hearing voices could be considered as two different phenomena. Melinda sees and Eli hears?
Yet another unclear possibility: Melinda needs to convince Eli that she "heard voices." Eli implies that Melinda had something to do with his NDE as a means of convincing him, but he insists that such an extreme measure was not necessary.

I don't think your blue explanation works, because if someone thinks you're a nut job they obviously don't think the voices are real.

Of course there's a big difference between convincing someone you hear voices and convincing someone those voices are real (such that others can hear them too).
Bad writing. We'll never know.

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