ok this is important to me. gaslighting is not a synonym for lying. itâs a type of lying. if someone says to you âthe sky is green,â thatâs a lie. if you say âthe sky is blueâ and they respond âno, itâs green, youâre wrong, your eyes are playing tricks on youâ THATâS gaslighting. the crucial requirement is that they try to convince you not only that you are wrong but that you shouldnât trust your own senses. that youâre imagining something/hallucinating/dreaming. the abuser is trying to make themselves more of an authority on reality than your own mind, often with the goal of making you reliant on them to tell you âtruthâ from âfiction.â






























