“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn’t we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it’s as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can’t explain his to us, and we can’t explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication … and there is the real illness.”
― Philip K. Dick
A little too subjective for me. I was in reality before psychosis. I was out of touch with reality when I was in psychosis because my fears and expectations never came true despite how much I believed in them
I was then brought back into reality through meds. I don’t believe that reality is that subjective.
My theories of being poisoned and my mind weakened and taken over, for example, never caused me to die or lose my own mind, they were just irrational fears. I justified these recoveries by another delusion, by myself being healed by angels. That’s not a true reality. Most true reality can be tested and confirmed.
With every death, a universe dies with it.
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