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Originally Posted by chickenfoot
Granted I've never had visual hallucinations (that I know of, how would you know?) but I think this research is selective and doled out among the population.
Does this explanation seem like the ramblings of someone going through a psychotic episode? Do I seem psychotic? No, because I couldn't possible be!
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So there is really limited DARPA funding in the US compared to NIH/NIMH/VA funds for research so they actually tend to be behind compared to univerisites and even more-so than private companies. There was a golden age in the 30-70s but that has long passed
You can tell visual hallucinations if they are impossible given real world laws of physics etc---my street wasn't normal for 10 years and then for 5 minutes the center line went zig-zag and so did the cars. People didn't change from wearing kimonos to jeans and T-shirts within 1 second of me looking away. It's the rapid impossible changes that give them away...
1% of the population has schizophrenia---that's super common---more so than type 1 diabetes, more than alzheimers etc----super common----are you in some way immune from psychosis? Because I know I couldn't tell until someone told me...I'm not sure how you would know and I am always afraid that I won't know in the future....