From a psychiatric perspective, viewing the targeted-individual (TI) narrative as “gasoline on the fire” emphasizes how pre-existing stress, vulnerability, and perceptual distortions can be dramatically intensified by immersion in this belief system. Here’s the interpretation: Show more The phrase "to pour gasoline onto fire” means to make an already bad, tense, angry, or problematic situation much worse — usually by saying or doing something that escalates conflict, increases anger, or adds more intensity to an existing problem. J No doubt that living in a situation of desperation for years (poverty, mental illness, the inability to live autonomously) and feeling that one's every move is being watched and correlated—by me or, in the past, by social media “moderators”—is bad enough. But to further be entrenched in the targeted individual delusion that one is being watched through walls, ceilings, and even one's own eyes is a nightmare few can properly understand.