I was expecting you to say something like depression, and I was ready to reply along the lines of; "We've known that for some time", but no, I can't do that because of your outside-of-the-box-brilliance. Seeing that image was like a sucker punch. I don't know how to comeback. I got brain-freeze.
So you're saying we all have pacman in our brains and he eats up our thoughts? Or is it ghosts that nail us and send us back to the start? O_o That's deep.
Funny enough you are correct... About the ghosts... They do haunt our waking hours and moan when the moon is on high... It's not in the game but you do have to catch each one and drive the metaphorical stake through its heart... Now if we could only figure out how...