Interesting idea, but would it help them, really? Let's see; they're having a delusion, so they do an RC and they figure out that they are not dreaming...then what? They are still stuck with the delusion. |
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I got a strange idea when I saw an episode of House today. It was about him being shot and put to sleep with ketamine during surgery. After this he finds himself going a little crazy, hallucinating and never really knowing when he is in the real world or in something his head made up. He then realizes that nothing of what he is experiencing is real, but he is still stuck in this twisted world, where he knows everything everyone is about to say, because technically he is the one saying it, until he takes such action that his doped up brain (he thinks) just cannot accept. Something that really defines the impossible and unreal. So he slices up a guy with a robot surgeon. He has now discovered that EVERYTHING since the accident (maybe a week earlier) has been a hallucination or a dream, and he wakes up lying on a bed rolling to the emergency, only seconds after he was shot. |
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Interesting idea, but would it help them, really? Let's see; they're having a delusion, so they do an RC and they figure out that they are not dreaming...then what? They are still stuck with the delusion. |
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I have no idea, either, but that was a really good episode. |
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It probably wouldn't work because most mentally ill people like that are awake, but hallucinating. That's much different than being asleep. They wouldn't be able to breath by holding their nose, but they might think they can and pass out... Who knows. I guess there isn't much they can do. |
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In virtually all cases, severely psychotic people are 100% convinced that what they are perceiving is real. You cannot even get them to consider the possibility that they are hallucinating and having delusions. They totally believe that the people putting them in the hospital and making them take medication are the ones who are screwed up. They are not phased by logic. |
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How do you know you are not dreaming right now?
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