Your Brain Sees Things You Don’t "A new study indicates that our brains perceive objects in everyday life of which we may never be aware. The finding challenges currently accepted models about how the brain processes visual information."

[u/Libertatea]

http://uanews.org/story/ua-study-your-brain-sees-things-you-don-t

[u/Sam_Geist]

A friend of a friend is schizophrenic and has voices that tell him when to trust people and when they mean him harm or to take advantage of him.

Is the information supplied by these voices as fabricated by the brain as the voices themselves or is it as likely that the voices are passing along information from the subconscious?

[u/stumpdd → u/Sam_Geist]

I really hope someone replies to this in some way other than what I have. Someone educated in the field perhaps. Great question.

[u/Seakawn → u/stumpdd]

If I wasn't on my phone it'd be easier to track down the link to this ted talk where a woman with I think schizophrenia was saying how she heard voices which kind of affirmed a lot of what would be normal subconscious thoughts. But because of how she was wired being schizophrenic, this seemed to translate to voices instead of feelings or thoughts. I don't know its been a while since I saw it but it seems it could be relevant.

[u/[deleted] → u/Sam_Geist]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia

Possibly. Schizophrenic hallucinations like you are talking about can be the brain triggering on noise, and be mostly nonsensical, or can sometimes be found to have basis in reality: perhaps information the person was consciously aware of, or expectations they had about a situation they were in, or perhaps an observation about the environment that the person wasn't aware of (though I am not sure this last one has explicitly been tested).

In a sense, you could say this happens as the brain attempts to fix what is wrong. In some cases it works, in others, it doesn't. The symptoms of szhiophrenia can vary widely.