It's always surprising to me how anybody can believe something like that.

Like, legitimately, it just doesn't make sense to me. Until you have evidence that something is true about yourself, shouldn't you adopt an agnostic point of view? How do you live for any length of time at all, and not come to understand the way that the experience of actually doing a thing can be dramatically different from the way it looks from outside? What kind of benefit is there to thinking this way? It's so strange to me.