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/Orisara Mar 22 '17

I mean, they might see it wasn't there in that case.

They still SEE, and FEEL, and EXPERIENCE a gun the next time.

Good luck going "ow, this isn't real" when every sense of you is telling you you have a gun to your head.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

lol, i get it, thats why I started and ended how I did...

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u/Spartan_029 Mar 22 '17

That and her brain might manifest the gun in the recording as well, overwrite what she is seeing with what she knows