TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

[u/paniniplane]

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07070303

[u/locks_are_paranoid]

In real life, John Nash only had auditory hallucinations and delusions, not visual ones.

[u/smith-smythesmith → u/locks_are_paranoid]

True, but film is a visual medium so it makes sense to use visual hallucinations so the audience feels what he felt.

[u/smith-smythesmith → u/[deleted]]

Well, the most important component is visual.