I know I keep bringing this up but I have a belief that life is a simulation. Anyone triggered by this don’t read this. I still believe my delusions even when I’m on my medicine but I don’t think about them as much and am not paranoid about them but with this delusion the only thing that changes is I don’t have actual psychical feeling I get that nothing is real. When im not on my medicine I’ll get lightheaded and peoples voices sound different. I don’t really know how to explain it but I can really feel that nothing is real. But even when I am on my medicine I believe life is a simulation because I guess people will think of them as coincidences but if I listen to a song on YouTube, a week later it will be on the radio. Ever since I was diagnosed schizophrenic, I’ve heard so many people on YouTube or in movies say the word “schizophrenia” or “schizophrenic”. Sometimes when I’m thinking of a word someone will say it in a sentence or the radio will say it. People say what I’m thinking sometimes, like if I’m thinking “wow it’s hot today” they’ll say something like “does anyone else feel hot?” Stuff like this makes my paranoia a lot worse but there’s no way to avoid them whether or not they are just coincidences or if they’re proof life is a simulation. I don’t know what to do.
I don’t like coincidences either, but that’s all they are. How long have you been on meds? It can take quite a while for things to seem normal after first going on meds.
I’ve been on medicine for three years but I just changed medicines two weeks ago. Which is when my paranoia that life is a simulation got worse.
All you can do is give it some time for things to settle down, and make sure you tell your psychiatrist that you feel your paranoia is getting worse (so far) on the new meds. The new meds might not be suiting you. There’s plenty of meds to try.
The new medicine is helping all my positive symptoms except for my delusion about life being a simulation. It’s helping with my hallucinations and all my other delusions except for feeling like I’m being Watched but I don’t feel like that as often and I’m not as paranoid about it but feeling like I’m being watched and life is a simulation still are fairly bad even on my medicine.
My delusions aren’t completely gone but they’re so much better. I still believe them but I’m not paranoid about them and I don’t think about them as much. My hallucinations are completely gone.
I also feel life is a simulation sometimes. I used to be convinced I was trapped in a dream and couldn’t wake up. Then I thought I was trapped in someone else’s dream. The feeling of unreality is common for me in different ways at different times. I also dissociate a lot, so I’m not in my body, and then I don’t know where I am when I get back in my body. De-realisation and dissociation are supposed to be symptoms of something else, especially with the huge memory gaps I have, and so many people I meet who seem thrilled to see me, and call me out by name, but I’ve never seen them in my life before. I’ve isolated myself for the past 3 years (almost 4 years) which is really bad, since my psychiatrist says social interaction is very important, but I don’t get those symptoms when I hibernate.
So, relax, feeling life is a simulation or you are dreaming is normal for a lot of people like us. You are not alone there. Just don’t hibernate like I do.
Hibernating as in sleep or being antisocial? Because I don’t sleep much but I’m very antisocial.
Not sleep, just stay in my flat all alone, and it is a struggle to leave the flat. I sleep 10 hours a night, as Quetiapine makes me sleep like the dead for 10 hours. I only take it at night. Without Quetiapine I can’t sleep.
Meh, who cares.
You should be concerned with intellectual things, what people’s people do what they do, and money…lots and lots of money.
A stupid coincidence is kind of cool, but it’s nothing. Really. It’s nothing. I’m not bashing you. I’m just saying that from a real person’s point of view it’s not even worth…whatever…you know. Hehe, let’s take it easy, and try to find something about this ride that’s going to make us greater in the next few years.
You are probably a scientific mind if phenomena like that intrigue you. You should go with scientific stuff if that’s the way you are.
Mr. Niceberg