wired.com — Being crazy is hard, but it's worth the effort. Especially if you're a cop, paramedic, or social worker who may someday need to deal with a person having a psychotic episode. At those times, empathy can be crucial.That's where Virtual Hallucinations comes in.
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jcarlockMay 24, 2007
How is this different from a movie? Sound/video... You could watch a beautiful mind, or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and get a better idea of what psychosis is. Also people keep on saying take LSD for these effects... LSD does not have these effects. Mild hallucinations stemming from reality, not crap appearing and disappearing. Or people looking at you funny. You cannot virtualize paranoia which is the primary issue with schizophrenics and people that take LSD. Through this 'looking glass' you only see and hear the same things, you don't FEEL what these people feel be it psychosis or drug induced.I'm sorry, money wasted. Now if you were able to emulate the visualizations from Fear and Loathing in real time, on the environment around you, they would be much closer. How about educating the police farther than 2 years of college so you don't have the ignorant policing the intelligent. BS senstivity training is not what I mean, sit them down in a psych ward and tell them to rationalize with the guy thats building a house of cards, but has no deck...
almightyMay 24, 2007
I have taken 17 hits of LSD at one time before. I can assure you I was not insane, everyone who was sober around me can testify to that. I was not paranoid, I didn't have strange thing appear and disappear, I didn't hear voices, I was for all intensive purposes "sane" in the eyes of sober and clear thinking people. I have heard people say that if you have taken 7 hits at one time you are considered legally insane. I think that is absolute load of sh!t. I will put money on the fact that if I was trippin, you would not know I was at all.
foenetikMay 24, 2007
Really, just make them watch David Lynch films.
android32May 25, 2007
LSD and schizophrenia = not the same AT ALL. But I'm glad you aren't going to touch acid because you're apprehensive of it, and if you're apprehensive of it, you will have a bad trip.
mrjinksMay 25, 2007
You're full of s**t.
swrostmoreMay 25, 2007
No, I haven't kept up on the latest DXM research since I graduated high-school and met people who know people, if you know what I mean. Even if it doesn't directly damage your brain, its still a crappy high, my advice is stick to the natural stuff.
psygnisfiveMay 26, 2007
Drugs are a very subjective thing. I thought it was fascinating, honestly, but downing two whole bottles of Robitussin cough gels is nauseating. lol
Closed AccountMay 26, 2007
All of ours perceptions are an illusion, who is to say which are real?
Closed AccountSep 7, 2008
Lucid dreaming isn't hallucinating, it's dreaming. Sleep paralysis is, though.