I found these articles to be very interesting. It describes a lot of what I experience. My day time imagination is very active. Sometimes the medicine I take reduces my imagination, sometimes it does not. I notice in the morning hours before I take my medication is when my imagination is the most active. I love day dreaming. If the medicine calms down the scary dreams then ok, but I want to keep the good stuff. Here are a couple interesting articles...................

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...a-living-dream

http://www.hgi.org.uk/archive/psychosis.htm


Sardean

[Shoe]

Very interesting articles Sardean. Jung said that a person with schizophrenia is like living in a waking dream. It is like our consciousness becomes overwhelmed by our unconscious. I find lucid dreams fascinating also because it is like our consciousness goes into the opposite direction into the terrain of the unconscious.

Best, Shoe

[SpottedOwl]

Thank you for sharing! Very interesting articles.

This goes along with my own ideas that psychosis is when the dream world and the waking world get mixed up. If we can take this knowledge and treat hallucinations as if they were dream metaphors, I think a lot of healing could come from that.

Perhaps we don't need to stop the imagination, but balance it. I thought it was particularly interesting that people in third world countries were more likely to recover from psychosis.

Does thinking about hallucinations as if they were dream images help you?

I have never tried that spottedowl. Since I have been taking medicine, the hallucinations have pretty much gone away. If I ever do have them again I will certainly try that. That may be good for somebody that is not on any kind of medication. But hallucinations can be scary sometimes. Mine were pretty frightening at times. I rarely had a moment to think of anything but the fear generated by the hallucination.

[MickG]

"Does thinking about hallucinations as if they were dream images help you?"

It helps me very much to think of them this way. Thanks for posting this.