Once the conspiracy narrative is adopted, it becomes a lens through which reality is viewed. Pattern recognition and hyperactive agency detection combine to form a tendency to see disparate events as connected, with an unseen agent behind them. Confirmation bias then kicks in. Every event, no matter how random or innocent, can become evidence for the conspiracy. Anomaly hunting feeds into this as well. Everything even slightly unusual or unfamiliar becomes an anomaly that proves the conspiracy. Every coincidence is part of the pattern.
