Does any one else get delutions in cartoon form?
I felt many times like a cartoon. Emotional disaster.
I hurt a few people as i didn’t had the emotional feel.
What I ment to say does any one get cartoons in there head
I saw creatures that looked like Pokemon in my mind once when I was in the hospital. Also, when I was a child, like 10 or 11, I had this strange 3D cartoon boy in my head called “Rich” and we would make bets with each other and see who got the most points for being correct about our bets. Stuff like “I bet you can’t make it upstairs in 5 steps” or “I bet you’ll see a red car crossing the road before the light turns green.”
My visual hallucinations are often in cartoon or anime form.
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There is research to suggest that we sort of think in cartoon form, simplifying that which we see into caricatures. For example when people see a photo or a cartoon like caricature of the photo, the remember the latter better (Nelson, Metzler, Reed,1974). This may because the line cartoon drawing is the way we cognise and store the photo anyway.
Further, when we see faces flashed side by side simultaneously, they appear deformed and caricature-ised
This may be because while we caricature-ise faces all the time, we only notice when we see two faces shown briefly side by side (Tangen, Murphy & Thompson, 2011).
So if illusions are uncontrolled, intrusive thoughts, then it is perhaps not surprising that visual ones (thoughts/illusions) be distorted like a comic or cartoon, because visual thoughts are always like cartoons, but normies don’t notice.
Nelson, T. O., Metzler, J., & Reed, D. A. (1974). Role of details in the long-term recognition of pictures and verbal descriptions. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 102(1), 184–186.
Tangen, J. M., Murphy, S. C., & Thompson, M. B. (2011). Flashed face distortion effect: Grotesque faces from relative spaces. Perception, 40(5), 628 – 630.
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Er, what’s up doc?
Technically that is a hallucination not a delusion. And yes I get them.
Closed-eye hallucinations, yes.
Another phenomenon that suggests that humans have the tendency to caricature-ise things (i.e. represent things, and perhaps think of them, in their most characteristic form) is so called “primitive art.”
Both ancient Egyptian and pre-colonial South American artist had the tendency to display the human form made up of caricature-ised body parts:
Eyes are most eye like when they are pointy ovals, or at least as eyes as viewed from the front. Chests likewise look most like chests when they are viewed from the front.
But feet and noses are most foot and nose-like when they are viewed from the side.
So ancient Egyptians and Aztecs had a tendency it is argued to draw their gods with their nose and feet drawn from the side in silhouette, but with chest/torso and eye facing forward embedded within that silhouette. The Egyptian art is called “frontalism” or “composite.”
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I saw cartoons in the clouds during an episode.
Thanks for all the explanations
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