What is the disappearing Pan Bowen?

2065438+August 2009, the last "Pan Bowen's disappearance" in Zhihu was widely spread. Zhihu netizen, a classmate and Pan Bowen went into the abandoned dormitory to pick up badminton, but Pan Bowen never came out. What is even more bizarre is that no one remembers Pan Bowen at all, and even his name is not on the student list, except Zhihu netizens and his classmates.

After attracting a lot of attention, the netizen later posted an explanation that Pan Bowen was an "imaginary companion" created by himself to alleviate loneliness, also known as Tulpa. The netizen said that he experienced interpersonal exclusion in junior high school and his heart was very lonely, so Pan Bowen appeared in his spiritual world.

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The "Pan Bowen incident" is based on the ruins of everyone's growth, on everyone's memory of the friendship that suddenly gave up halfway, and on our memory of all the important people who have lost-they have disappeared and they have been forgotten.

In essence, it is about "losing"-losing while growing, sometimes depressed and sometimes afraid.