Talk:Reading Steiner/@comment-31519682-20170314182449/@comment-7888499-20170315042355

Interesting theory. I disagree about Okabe being a partly-formed Gigalomaniac and projecting his "memories/delusions", though. To give one reason why from Steins;Gate 0, even outside of Japan there are people who experience the "lighter" versions of Reading Steiner without any connection to Okabe. And, in the original work, Faris, Luka, Mayuri and one of Mayuri's friends (in SG0) have dreams or deja vu recollections even if Okabe is not in the same vicinity as them. As for Kurisu in the movie, she recalls only after Okabe disappears from the world line all together. I do think that Okabe and the others are individually/on their own recalling possible realities from other world lines, rather than making delusions into reality.

Having said that, while I think that Reading Steiner is not Gigalomania, per se, I would not write off that the SciADV creators could make them related somehow in future stories if they wanted to; sharing some similar root causes/triggers, for example, like you hypothesized. It is worth noting, however, that all three branches of the SciADV franchise have "perception/observation/recognition" as a theme; C;H recognizes delusions as reality, S;G observes the infinite possibilities of existence through memory and the world lines, and in R;N it is one's perception of the speed at which things occur and the virtual world overlaying reality. Maybe I have it wrong, but I thought the R;N protagonists "perception of the speed of time" was caused by a GE/Noah like experiment. Aki and Kaito certainly acquired a syndrome different from Gigalomania, so I think their cases fall into shared causes, but different variables lead to different conditions.

Any connection that I myself would make between Steins;Gate and Chaos;Head's "recognition=exist", is in the not-necessarily-canon SG movie, where Okabe is no longer able to recognize himself as belonging to the Steins Gate world line and consequently vanishes from it. Well, lots of food for thought. Please, pardon if I misunderstood some point you were trying to make and thank you for sharing and starting an interesting discussion!