That you perceive the world like you were dreaming? Or that there is something off with it like something strange in the way you perceive it for some moments? Is this a positive symptom?
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I have that all the time and I mean all the time. It’s getting better, but i spent so long in psychosis that reality doesn’t feel real.
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I have experienced this I believe. I don’t know what kind of symptom this is though.
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Yes I was seeing and hearing things the wrong way while in psychosis I actually thought I had passed away or something weird. But the meds are helping.
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my pdoc said, “schizophrenics while delusional are like dreaming while they are awake.” very true.
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I have primarily visual hallucinations so my vision looks like a kaleidoscope when I’m not on medications. It makes it harder to stay grounded or trust reality for sure.
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Sounds like dissociation.
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That’s exactly how my psychosis goes. I enter a dream world while awake. Very dangerous.
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I had it so bad i developed a matrix delusion
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It must be dissociation there are times I perceive my body like it were different for example the color of my hair or my eyes being different than their actual colors it lasts seconds but it happens more than 5 times a day I perceive I wear a hat when I do not wear one.
The hat thing happens to me too. Its weird
A lot of the time I feel like I’m not real… sometimes when I’m driving I feel like I’m hovering over my car and that nothing’s real and it wouldn’t matter if I yanked the wheel over and hit a tree.
Yeah things can become dreamy. I remember I was in the ambulance being transported to the hospital. I was talking with famous people in my mind and believed I was transported to hell… not cool.
Yes I knew that something was wrong
I think so
Dreams are an as yet unknown quantity since I last checked.
I regard the psychotic state with the same recklessness as the thousands of people who’re probably studying it right now and still don’t have a clue
Oh Dopamine must be it. Lets make SZ’s ■■■■■■■miserable and take away the thing that rewards humans by living and doing good things…
I question the stableness of reality.
How can I have a conversation with a group of medical professionals, a two-way conversation that made total sense to me, yet all they can hear is gibberish.
How can a doctor sit there after I describe in detail my distorted reality, then ask the question, has anyone else told you this before - and she says yes?!?!?!?!
Something more to this experience than I think anyone is really prepared to give any credence too
Instead medication for years and then see what happens when we pass.
It’s now a waiting game for us all to see the truth
No one here on this planet can categorically explain these things - dreams, psychosis and what happens when you die.
The best we can do is have a sticking plaster so we can at least be present here
I’d say although it all sounds great and fantastical, reality is here and now, we need to be in the here and now as I fear psychosis in death.
Here ya go:
When my psychosis is the result of a manic episode where i haven’t slept for several days to a week, yes.
It is very much like dreaming while awake, it makes little sense and topics and themes jump all over the place.
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Lack of sleep psychosis is so intense for me too
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Im currently on month 2 of a manic/mixed episode
I find 20mg of Haldol helps me block the psychosis enough to get some sleep. It’s almost twice my regular dose, and the most extreme psychosis I’ve had recently took 40mg to help. I’d advise talking with your doctor before trying this if you are on this script, because the next couple of days are pretty rough.
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I cant take haldol i have a bad reaction to it. Im on invega. I see my pdoc on wednesday so im going to ask for a mood stablizer and a prn for psychosis
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