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From one point of view, schizophrenia seems like an impingement on individual realities by other realities, as from the individual's standpoint the unseen seepa
by omarchowdhury 10y ago
From one point of view, schizophrenia seems like an impingement on individual realities by other realities, as from the individual's standpoint the unseen seepage into the consensus realities are stark enough to bewilder the sufferer from determining what is real and what is not.
It is interesting that a step towards the remedy in Buddhism to the suffering of the consensus reality (samsara) is seeing that the attributes of that reality are self or mind arisen and have no substantial basis.
And yet, we take our individual realities to be quite solid and real. Might schizophrenics be those who have a perceptual filter inadvertently opened? An eye unbound able to sense beyond the individual? It would seem to an outsider the only difference between a schizophrenic and a sage is composure.
- wyager 10y agoSchizophrenics do not seem to be able to make more accurate predictions about anything than non-schizophrenic people. This suggests that schizophrenics do not have any particular additional "senses".
- ap22213 10y agoIs that speculation, or do you have evidence? I'm genuinely curious, for personal reasons. Schizophrenia and mood disorders run on both sides of my family. The schizophrenia is rare - the mood disorder not so rare. But, we are all kind of eccentric and artistic and driven to be creative. Anyway, one thing that we often talk about is this sense of being able to subconsciously and intuitively 'feel' what others are thinking and feeling. It can be a painful experience because it acts like a sixth sense in a way. That is, it's physically painful to be around people with underlying anxiety or anger or tension, even if they're suppressing it enough that others don't notice. People have said that I'm able to predict what they are thinking and feeling before they even know that they're they're thinking and feeling it.
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- Fr0styMatt88 10y agoYou may find this interesting: http://www.medicaldaily.com/monkey-see-monkey-do-emotions-are-contagious-because-mirror-neurons-brain-318692 http://www.medicaldaily.com/monkey-see-monkey-do-emotions-ar...
- olewhalehunter 10y agoWhat incentive would there be on their behalf to offer such a thing to neural intruders if they could?
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