Yes.
It might be that these people are demonically obsessed. Demons can shoot ideas as well as images (ie nightmares; fantasies) into the minds of people living within the kingdom of darkness. Then the victims develop obsessions with the ideas (ie Marxism, New World Order concept that originates in the preflood world) or images, in this case, with themselves sans offending appendages or themselves as animals, etc. Spirited