Could they? If only a couple of seconds?
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I think if normal people felt a paranoid delusion for a little while, they would be scrambling to get back to normal. People donât know how painful it is to be afraid and to think your delusion is real. They donât get that it IS real. Itâs real to you and that is what makes it painful. never mind people talking in your head. Thatâs a whole other thing.
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I think they could. It might be hard at first, but they would get used to it. If I can get through it Iâm sure anyone else could. Iâm pretty sure though that theyâd want to end the simulation as soon as possible. No one wants to be subjected to that torture for very long.
They would be like, âWhen can I take this VR set off please?â
P.S. Happy Cake Day!
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Happy Cake Day @Sharp
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Yes, Happy Cake Day 
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Depends on whoâs Sz world we drop them into⌠If they came to mine they would probably just be confused⌠What the â â â â is going on I can hear them say confused and humoredâŚlol⌠At least mostly⌠Wouldnât want them to see the things that haunt my nights sometimesâŚfeeling helpless and alone unable to call out as the world drifts awayâŚreplaced by terror and visions beautiful in their terrible powerâŚleaving them questioning whatâs real and⌠Might be fun if you could turn it off and just be normal againâŚ
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Happy Cake Day Flame!
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Cake or death? I guess we know I picked cake lol tyâŚ
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I think this video may help answer your question.
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No, I donât think they could. Just look what acid/lsd makes them doâŚthey can go berserk and do actual things based on their hallucinations (i.e. that c!a guy who allegedly jumped from a balcony after being dosed with one of the first lsd concoctions).
If they canât trip out on acid without moving around in reality and doing odd behaviors, how would they handle sz?
I have this idea that szâs have some kind of ability to exist in two worlds easier than a normie. Look at how many of us have acted normal during a psychotic episode to fool peopleâa normie couldnât do that on lsd!
Then again, a lot of us do have the whole âIâm tripping on acidâ effects from sz, like walking around talking to themselves or doing odd things (there was one guy in the psych wards who couldnât stop giggling, putting pieces of paper in his mouth, pulling it out of his mouth, and sticking it to the door of someoneâs room to see if it would stick. It did, he got like 8 little spitballs up), so thereâs a point for the normies, I guess! I say this as someone who once painted crosses on all the windows and entrances in my motherâs house for fear that evil people would arrive and then be warded off by the crossesâŚthe cop was like âhmm, whatâs with all the crossesâ and I was like, oh those arenât crosses haha theyâre just Xâs I just did that for fun hahaha and he was like âIâm calling an ambulance.â 
Happy cake day!
I followed the normie tradition and trolled the comments section on that video⌠His audible hallucination simulator barely scratches the surface⌠Plus I dislike Anderson cooper âŚhe looks too lizardishâŚ
Aw⌠I was not stable⌠Top commentâŚalso some of the comments are hilariousâŚhaha still makes me laugh thoughâŚhe does look like a she elfâŚ
I think the idea that people with schizophrenia are better able to handle schizophrenia or psychosis than people with transient psychosis is absurd because schizophrenia is a disease with varying degrees of severity and any individual who reaches a certain level of severity will lose their insight into their disease. If you have insight into your own psychosis then you have a lower severity. To be able to make choices to avoid doing something you obviously need insight into your situation, so in other words you can only âhandleâ your schizophrenia or psychosis when your level of severity is lower than a certain point. Medications lower your severity.
Yes, because we are ânormiesâ experiencing schizophrenia and a lot of us seem to cope.
We are ânormiesâ experiencing schizophrenia.
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Thats not always trueâŚ
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what about building up tolerance to those experiences? wouldnât that mean weâre better able to handle it after prolonged periods of extreme psychosis? people adapt to high levels of duress
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When Iâm having a full on psychotic episode I donât handle it very well. I do crazy things. Itâs led me to try to kill myself more than once. Itâs gotten me committed a few times.
But I have residual psychosis most of the time when Iâm not having a big episode, I still hear voices and see things and get paranoid and have delusions⌠Theyâre just not nearly as bad as when I have a real episode. And theyâre easy to get through, most of the time, except at night. At night I still struggle.
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Sadly you canât build tolerance to psychotic experiences unless youâre referring to the anxiety or inner tension you experience during the episodes. Once you are sufficiently psychotic then you donât know that you are and thatâs it. What can happen is that with time you become less psychotic and thus gain lucidity.
These facts lie in the very word of being âpsychoticâ.
Whatâs with cake day
I think I missed it
But I did do a happy birthday lamp yesterday
Anyway
I came across a video once that others can experience voices
I was too scared to watch it
this would explain why psychosis isnât as bad as in the younger yearsâbody adapts, mind adapts.
The defining feature is psychosisâthe behavioral effects of which are anxiety and fear. So yes, you can develop tolerance to the effects of psychosis.
Sz have been found to be resistant to lsd, as in this really old article
Just says that szâs dosed with lsd, for whatever reason, didnât trip out as much as those who werenât sz. The szâs needed higher doses of lsd to reach that same benchmark. Szâs are inherently different, chemically, from normals. Why is it absurd that we react differently to the same stimuli?
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