A moment of deliberate self-questioning — or asking a trusted friend — to figure out whether what you're experiencing is manipulation or whether your own perception has genuinely gone haywire. A gaslight check is what you do when someone has spent so long rewriting your reality that you can't trust your own read on a situation. It's the 'wait, am I crazy or are they lying?' pause. Performing a gaslight check means refusing to let confusion win — you're auditing the narrative before you accept someone else's version of events.
She texted her friend doing a full gaslight check — 'he said it never happened, but I have the screenshots?'
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