Also would explain trump supporters lol

I think you have something there, particularly in regard to people who go off on religious retreats, of one sort or another, who put themselves into situations of sensory deprivation, and "see" their god.

I don't know about all that, but most of what we "remember" isn't factual memory. There's no such thing. Memories, from the moment we encode them, are flavored by our perceptions, our biases, our preconceptions, our emotions. And what we recall is further flavored by how we're asked to recount it.

For example, Elizabeth Loftus and John Palmer conducted the 1974 Car Crash Experiment (they didn't really crash any cars, don't worry) to evaluate whether wording questions a certain way could influence a participant’s recall by twisting their memories of a specific event.

The participants watched slides of a car accident and were asked to describe what had happened as if they were eyewitnesses to the scene. The participants were put into two groups and each group was questioned using different wording such as “how fast was the car driving at the time of impact?” versus “how fast was the car going when it smashed into the other car?” The experimenters found that the use of different verbs affected the participants’ memories of the accident, showing that memory can be easily distorted.

Memory can be easily manipulated by the questioning technique, meaning that information gathered after the event can merge with original memory causing the addition of false details or "confabulation". It's even documented that suspects have confessed to, and worse, believed they were guilty of, crimes they never committed, in some cases Satanic ritual abuse, because repeated questioning made them doubt their own memories.

Some fascinating material there.
For more on consciousness, read "Descartes’ Error, Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, " by Antonio Damasio.
My belief about "religious experiences" is related, as I see them as "interior" interpretations of experiences. I once worked with a woman who said she'd become a serious believer after having an experience, that she "Knew" had to be of a connection with her god. I do not recall the details, but what she described could have been interpreted in other ways, as well. But, if one is set up, programmed by one's experiences to think that the world operates in mysterious ways, then a given experience could be seen as "Aha! There is god speaking to me!"
I made a comment, once, in public, to a friend, about a coincidence. A woman nearby, on the bus with us, easily overheard it and came out with her programming: "There are no coincidences." Her unspoken assumption was that "coincidences are god's way of speaking to you."

This whole stay at home has me addicted to TED.

That is why religions are such a whimsical fantasy!!!

That was good. Definitely worth 17 minutes of my time. Thanks.