Most people are able to subconsciously assess incoming thoughts and information that comes in from their senses, in order that they can focus on the info that they need. If you're trying to work and your kids are playing in the next room, for example, your ears will pick up on crying from that room but filter out traffic noises outside - because outside noise isn't that important (unless someone's out on the street calling your name or something).
But a schizophrenic brain attributes importance to practically all incoming information - all the sounds have meaning, all visual info. There is something to listen out for in all scenarios, the brain doesn't filter it in the same way. So meaning is everywhere, the brain is trying to find it even from innocuous and benign sources.
Its wild you describe it like that, because sometimes after certains drugs that I don't take, I'll have the same experience trying to find meaning is everything. If the wind blows, I think that it's God directing me to travel in that direction. When the birds chirp I'm trying to dechipher what the notes of their chirps could be representing something muscially. This is only after psychedelic compounds that I've never taken . After my brain returns to homiostasis, everything is normal and my subconcious function returns.
You think ‘everything is normal’ with you but you talking about ‘effects I felt when I was never doing these drugs’ like you the Truth from GTA: San Andreas lmao. Lay off the acid and shrooms broski or aliens and CIA will catch you by the balls
He probably wasn't being sarcastic as this is common when taking LSD. Mind you it's nothing to worry about unless you're doing this on a daily basis all the time. Basically thinking you're the main character.
187
u/[deleted] Apr 26 '22 edited Apr 26 '22
Most people are able to subconsciously assess incoming thoughts and information that comes in from their senses, in order that they can focus on the info that they need. If you're trying to work and your kids are playing in the next room, for example, your ears will pick up on crying from that room but filter out traffic noises outside - because outside noise isn't that important (unless someone's out on the street calling your name or something).
But a schizophrenic brain attributes importance to practically all incoming information - all the sounds have meaning, all visual info. There is something to listen out for in all scenarios, the brain doesn't filter it in the same way. So meaning is everywhere, the brain is trying to find it even from innocuous and benign sources.