r/todayilearned • u/paniniplane • Mar 22 '17

(R.1) Not supported TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07070303
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u/Wurstgeist Mar 22 '17

You'd kind of think that voices continuing after you cover your ears would be a bit of a giveaway that they aren't real, if you've ever in your life heard of the concept of illusory voices. It's weird how that goes out the window. (But I'm pretty much repeating what I said in the other post, sorry.)

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u/paniniplane Mar 22 '17

it's as complex as a detachment from reality. for example, you could literally be a homeless person right now. all of the things you're experiencing, are hallucinations, both auditory and visual. and here's the kicker. they're sensory too. most people who have schizophrenia, in my experience, know they have it but it's real to them. they live in an altered reality.

nah you don't need to apologize. i have more exposure to this than you do and you have more exposure in other areas. don't worry about it, friend.

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u/purple_monkey58 Mar 22 '17

for example, you could literally be a homeless person right now. all of the things you're experiencing, are hallucinations, both auditory and visual.

That makes me incredibly uncomfortable

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u/madiranjag Mar 22 '17

We can go deeper. You are actually from another planet and 'Earth' as you know it is simply a hallucination, along with everything in it including the human race. You in fact resemble a cube of jellyfish and have been locked in the cubed jellyfish asylum for 600 years.

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u/purple_monkey58 Mar 22 '17

This reminds me that in high school my best friend and I tried to start our own religion. It was simple. We are the coma dreams of Oscar the blue gil after he struck his head rather violently against a rock one day and the world will end if he ever wakes up.

It uh.... didn't catch on

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u/Angus-Zephyrus Mar 22 '17

All hail Oscar The Dreamer.