What is life? What is the world? What is going on around us?
We call our patients delusional. We say they are experiencing the world abnormally. Their hallucinations are things that really don't exist.
I know this question has been asked many times before, but what makes us so sure that we are experiencing the real world? Most people only ask this question when they are high (like the cute kid in the youtube video after getting his teeth pulled), but really I found myself asking this a lot on my first day in the locked psychiatric unit. These patients can be very persuasive. They believe wholeheartedly in their delusions and sometimes they make you really question your own world view.
And what is our "normal" world view? It is a consensus perception of the environment around us. But just because we all experience it does that really mean that it is the truth? Or that it is correct?
Enter the Matrix. Or a bad acid trip.
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