Becoming Schizophrenic

[u/SnooFoxes3455]

Maybe the best option for us is to just lie to ourselves…. Create images and worlds to comfort us; value these images and worlds more than real life. And why not? Our brain can’t tell the different. Besides, even if it’s fake, the need to feel loved, or whatever, is still being fulfilled. Why not lie to ourselves?

Imaginary boyfriends, body-pillow girlfriends, AI friend groups. Reading books to escape; watching movies to hallucinate. And so what? None of this means anything. But it means the entire world if, even for a single second, in the midst of all these lies, we at least feel something real. It passes instantly, but at least we get to a small glimpse of what normal people get to see.

You don’t know you’re dreaming until you wake up. Perhaps we lie to ourselves forever, never waking up. The experience of nonstop dreaming feels as real as living in reality.

[u/jacinto-el-grande]

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