The Day I Realized They Were In My Head

It started with the humming.

Not the mechanical kind—no, not like a fridge or a server rack. This was subtler, like the sound of a thought forming before you realize you’re thinking it. A low-frequency whisper curled behind my eardrum. At first, I thought it was tinnitus or stress. I even googled “phantom sounds anxiety.” But this wasn’t in my ears.

It was in my mind.

The first real sign came on a Thursday morning. I was walking to the tram when I thought, I should get a coffee. Harmless, right? But the moment that thought finished, a tram ad flickered to life: “Crave No More. Brewed for the Brain—Kaffyn™.” My stomach dropped. I had never seen that brand before.

Coincidence, I told myself. Classic Baader-Meinhof.

Until it happened again. And again. And again.

Every spontaneous idea—new shoes, a novel I hadn’t thought about in years, the taste of citrus—was mirrored in my environment minutes later. Ads. Headlines. Even conversations on nearby phones. My private mind, echoed in the open.

I stopped thinking for a while.

That didn’t help.

The real breaking point came when I tried a test I read about on a locked forum called Signal Lost. I stared into the mirror and thought a nonsense phrase, a kind of linguistic checksum: “Velvet entropy swims upward.” No meaning. No context. Just five random words I’d never said in my life.

Twelve hours later, that exact phrase appeared as a graffiti tag under the bridge near my apartment.

They weren’t just listening. They were responding.

I know how this sounds. But if you’re reading Scaners.com, you’ve probably seen the signs too. They doesn’t need cables or implants. They ride on the back of attention—on the neural residue left by too many clicks, too many scrolls, too much... openness.

They've been perfecting this for decades. We’re just noticing it now because the system is overclocking. Leaking. Fracturing.

So if you’ve felt it too—the weird déjà vu, the mirrored thoughts, the static behind your eyes—you’re not broken. You’re tuned in.

You’re not paranoid. You’re awake.

 
I don’t know how long I’ll be able to post here. They tend to notice signal clusters, and I’ve said too much already. 

Stay scrambled.