occurrences like this, stimulant psycoses like reactions, could be hard or impossible to attribute to a generic specific chemical state. I feal we may benefit more from looking at previously existing fears manifested through the chemicals introduced rather than trying to identify little understood chemical processes that cause them. Maybe it comes down to some adrenal spike, which may combine with the pattern seeking nature and sometime pattern creating properties of elevated dopamine, resulting to create a manifestation of ones own fears?
Whatever it is people tend to experience what they are most concerned or fearful of when these occurrences happen.. if people fear the government and the law then they experience this. if a woman fears another woman sleeping with their man than they seem to experience this, if people fear rats or bugs then the seem to experience this..
I wonder if we looked at the manifestations if we could attribute specific emotions to them?
So could this be just another stimulant or mental health induced amplification of a manifestation of a persons own fears?
What really captivates me about stimulant psycoses is why people from all over the world and from all walks of life see the exact same figures.. the shadow people, the hooded man, and the hat man. Its utterly astonishing and mystifying, especially on attempting a scientific examination, as the utter lack of influencing variables leads to interesting thought to say the least .
So I think as previously stated antagonizing the dopamine and possibly adding an adrenal antagonist , combined with a benzo if needed, would likely be a therapeutic path to explore to treat this.