We investigate a multi-household DSGE model in which past aggregate consumption impacts the confidence, and therefore consumption propensity, of individual households. We find that such a minimal setup is extremely rich, and leads to a variety of realistic output dynamics: high output with no crises; high output with increased volatility and deep, short lived recessions; alternation of high and low output states where relatively mild drop in economic conditions can lead to a temporary confidence collapse and steep decline in economic activity. The crisis probability depends exponentially on the parameters of the model, which means that markets cannot efficiently price the associated risk premium. We conclude by stressing that within our framework, narratives become an important monetary policy tool, that can help steering the economy back on track. Significance statement: Despite their inability to cope with the Global Financial Crisis and various subsequent calls to "Rebuild Macroeconomics", Dynamics Stochastic General equilibrium (DSGE) models are still at the forefront of monetary policy around the world. Like many standard economic models, DSGE models rely on the figment of representative agents, abolishing the possibility of genuine collective effects (such as crises like the 2008 GFC) induced by heterogeneities and interactions. By allowing feedback of past aggregate consumption on the sentiment of individual households, we pave the way for a class of more realistic DSGE models that allow for large output swings induced by relatively minor variations in economic conditions and amplified by interactions. Several important conceptual messages follow from our work,for example the de facto impossibility to price extreme risks and the importance of narratives, which may be an efficient depression-prevention policy tool whenever confidence collapse is looming. * Quoting O. Blanchard in (4): We in the field did think of the economy as roughly linear, constantly subject to different shocks, constantly fluctuating, but naturally returning to equilibrium over time. [...]. The problem is that we came to believe that this was indeed the way the world worked.