[tluyben2]

Atheist here; you are implying a religious person would believe that taking this (and others as 'a gateway drug' implies) drug makes it easier for demons to possess you? Is that a common thought in some circles? I was raised religiously (catholic and reformed), but never heard about this.

[LargoLasskhyfv]

What do you think of this then? Some Loa riding you, like you would a horse, or putting you on like just another coat?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loa

Combine with parts of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis as you see fit, for instance some bored coder looking into why some parts of code suddenly fail, and putting you into debug mode :)

edit: also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn