Not to trivialize the sad and disturbing condition of schizophrenia, but what if you were constantly having schizophrenic hallucinations and you knew they were in fact hallucinations, could you control them, like a "lucid schizophrenic" episode? |
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Not to trivialize the sad and disturbing condition of schizophrenia, but what if you were constantly having schizophrenic hallucinations and you knew they were in fact hallucinations, could you control them, like a "lucid schizophrenic" episode? |
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Schizophrenic psychosis is usually a completely uncontrollable symptom. After all, if the mentally ill could control their symptoms, we wouldn't have mental illness would we? |
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Although I've never experienced any schizophrenic episodes myself, I always assumed they would be more like the hallucinations that occur during sleep paralysis. |
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Well to my understanding schizophrenic episodes are so powerful that the person suffering from it is often unaware the hallucinations are, in fact, hallucinations. Their perception of the world has been altered so severely that they think the hallucinations, whether they're auditory or visual, are part of the real world, and the distinction between whats real and what's not becomes blurred. That's what makes schizophrenia such a debilitating illness. |
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Yep, the same can be said of hallucinations experienced during SP for people that don't know what they are. |
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yes you can make hallucinations go away with A LOT of practice.most people prefer to ignore them knowing they aren't real. |
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Yes, it is possible, with A LOT of practice, to make hallucinations go away(not stop them) but most people prefer to ignore them knowing they aren't real. |
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Hmm, in reading this, I thought of an interesting question. Do you think that an avid and accomplished lucid dreamer who, later in his life, acquired schizophrenia or some other form of psychosis could more readily able to train his mind to tell reality from his hallucinations, as he has already trained his mind to do so when dreaming? This is, of course, assuming it is even possible to do so if one is diagnosed with the mental illness. Just a thought. |
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With Lucid Dreaming though I'm guessing you can overcome stuff like this. |
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"He who is the cause of someone else becoming powerful is the agent of his own destruction" - Ezio Auditore da Firenze (1459 - 1524)
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