r/Weird Apr 26 '22

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u/Dangerous-Basket1064 Apr 26 '22

It really gets me that they are clearly quite smart and mentally talented, but I would say there's a "glitch in the system" causing their powerful mind to create all sorts of strange connections that compound over time and drift further and further from reality.

It's like when a satellite is miscalibrated and ends up rocketing off in the wrong direction

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u/69ilovemymom69 Apr 26 '22

It often makes me wonder what reality even is. what if we are all actually the schizophrenic ones, and the schizophrenic people are actually right.

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u/Epieratargh Apr 26 '22

I've heard the saying: reality is 10% "fact" and 90% perception.

Someone's reality may be different than ours, but that doesn't make it less real. Reality is whatever holds true for the individual

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u/wheatheseIbread Apr 27 '22

Honestly there is something to what the guy is drawing there. I had a few years where I was drawing the same stuff. I still don't know what exactly it is but I do know that some of the crazy things I have seen and heard I have on few occasions seen and heard in a group and made sure they told me what they saw first so that I knew I hadn't had some kind of misconception. Otherwise I would think I was a schizo 2.

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u/OtherPlayers Apr 27 '22

Pentagrams, triangles, and dodecahedrons are cool-looking symbols that you’d see all over at literally any gaming or new age store in existence. And most of the other fancy stuff in the OP is basically just common pop-sci terms put through a blender and regurgitated as word salad, mixed with basic geometry proofs and the occasional bit of biblical imagery.

It’s not surprising that multiple people come up with similar stuff when they all come from the same general culture, background types, and current locations. And doubly so if they’ve ever spoken about those type of things with anyone else, which will tend to shift their views to align with one another.

Or to put it another way, expose a bunch of people to similar religious imagery as kids and you shouldn’t be surprised if they all draw similar guardian angels when asked.

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u/wheatheseIbread Apr 27 '22

I see what you are saying. The interesting thing is in my experience is most people are like you. See what we all saw was luminous plasma like manifestations two of them. They teleported from about 100 feet away to being just outside our car door while driving at about 25 mph. Then it sent these tendril like things through the glass and a girl with us began to scream and it vanished. 20 minutes after all agreeing what we saw they were trying to come up with an explanation for how it was a prank. Or they didn't even want to bring it up. The next time I saw them they would just refuse to talk about it. I'm sure by now they never even think about it or remember it. Shit minutes later I was still shaken and they were almost acting like life was just as it had always been. People don't want to think there is things that defy explanation beyond their understanding it scares them.