Jim van Os has explained the concept of salience in various papers (e.g. Van Os, 2009b), the most recent of which was in this journal (Van Os, 2010). We in Anoiksis can relate to that as when one has a psychosis, certain details stick out, like the flank of an army, but they have a significance that does not correspond with the consensus conception of reality. This applies to hallucinations, which are sense data spontaneously arising in a part of the brain and which are not properly filtered out when being relayed by the neurotransmitters to the parts of the brain responsible for consciousness. It also applies to inappropriately salient thoughts – thoughts which arise in the mind and which, like dreams, are not censored by the synapses as having no application in reality. Delusions are often semi-rational, but incorrect rationalisations of how the thoughts come to be in the mind.