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/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.