Claire Miller at age 14 killed her 19-year-old sister with a knife, inflicting multiple stab wounds and leaving her body with the knife stuck in her neck. Claire was ruled mentally ill but liable for the death and sentenced to an adult women’s prison to serve a 12 ½- to 40-year term. It was reported that she saw demons that tormented her, went to the kitchen to get a knife, stabbed one of the demons repeatedly, and then looked down and realized it was her sister. If that was a true account, how did she confuse her sister with spirit apparitions? Can possessing spirit meddlers project a specific hallucination onto the mind of their host, in addition to making them delusional so they create their own fantasy-based hallucinations?

Your question is defining reality quite closely, that both of these mechanisms will happen for individuals who are in a state of mental imbalance as a consequence of a long-term spirit possession, and that is why such individuals are at risk of developing psychotic disorders and why such illnesses are universally the result of spirit meddler attachment and manipulation from within. Not only can their efforts to torment the deep subconscious lead a person to become unhinged, unstable, and delusional, seeing things that aren't there, drawing dark interpretations that are anxiety-provoking and fearful, as with a paranoid personality, for example, dark spirits can also overpower the mind of their host, if it is sufficiently vulnerable, and substitute their own impressions for a sensory input of the host, causing them to fuse, and the dominant awareness becomes that of the dark spirit and not reality being reflected in the sensory input of the moment—that was the sequence of events in this tragic and needless death. After terrorizing this young girl by ramping up her fears, they projected an image of a demonic being into the stream of awareness coming from what she was looking at, being her sister coming to see what was wrong, knowing her younger sister was agitated in the middle of the night and wanting to see if she could help. That encounter, at a height of terror and degree of becoming imbalanced, was exploited specifically, to ramp up the fear by imposing the visage of a demonic spirit onto the sister and her physical presence. This was interpreted by the perpetrator of this crime as the demon gaining power over her and creating a sense of panic. So this was not a heartless, vicious, and savage murder but a case of self-defense that was tragically, by definition, a crime and left the victims to suffer, one through death and the other through incarceration as the perpetrator.