Ultimate Schizophrenia Simulation - Why Dreaming Is Like Psychosis

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[@vryanz83]

As someone who has very vivid dreams, and sometimes wakes up almost exhausted by them, this makes my heart ache for those who experience psychosis. ♥️ This is a wonderful analogy.

[@callmethecoolestduckontheb5358]

Never ache for psychosis, as someone who experiences both extremely vivid dreams (so vivid I have an entire other world in my dreams, I watch myself wake up in this world as I fall asleep and I watch myself fall asleep in that world as I awake) I also experience heavy periods of psychosis. Let me tell you, psychosis can be terrifying, or isn't just like having a dream, it also includes intense periods of paranoia, it can be terrifying to have a psychotic breakdown rather than a normal breakdown and it is not something you should ever wish for. I used to always wish horrible mental disorders and things upon myself and now that I am suffering from symptoms of things like schizophrenia or bpd, I understand now that those are things I never should have wished upon myself because I now may very well have them. Trust me that is not something you want. It is not just a break from a reality, it's a waking nightmare.

[@Badass_Brains]

@@callmethecoolestduckontheb5358 Research suggests that psychotic people tend to experience more nightmares than the average person. Would you say that this is the case for you? Do you normally experience lucid dreams? I hope that your symptoms are improving :)

[@gttgodsent]

I'm the same; lucid and vivid describes my dreams, I'm also diagnosed as schizoaffective.

[@SchizophrenicCathy]

This reminds me of how my sister and I explained my schizophrenia to my niece and nephew when they were young, but getting old enough to learn about their Aunt Cathy. We basically told them, when I "get sick", my episodes are very much like being stuck in a very realistic daydream that I can't control and that my brain thinks is real. They both had a few questions, but pretty much got the idea right away. Then, they were both like, "Okay! Can we go play now?" Like it didn't even phase them. It was actually rather amusing. And we were glad we explained it to them when we did, because just a couple years later, my nephew acquired a couple of mental illness diagnosis that require therapy and medication. And learning about my illnesses ahead of time made understanding his a bit easier. He even talked to me about not liking taking medication every single day. I told him that yes, I agree that having to take all that medication does suck, but I am grateful that I have that option, as my life would be a lot harder if I didn't!

[@stoneyvowell1239]

I agree that it's a lot easier for children to understand it that way and anybody else. When I tried to explain it to the doctor I got my diagnosis from I told him about some of the experiences when I was younger I said I knew it was just my brain playing tricks on me and I thought I was just maladaptive daydreaming.

[@annnnn9074]

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[@SchizophrenicCathy]

@@annnnn9074 You should totally start a KZbin channel! It sounds like you have a lot to share with the world! Good luck! Let me know if you start making videos, and I will definitely check them out! Good luck to ya!!

[@annnnn9074]

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[@SchizophrenicCathy]

@@annnnn9074 Aww!! I will. 😊

[@war5561]

Wait, you’re totally right; I’ve never been depressed or unmotivated in a dream. As someone with adhd, and depression those are two very consistent things in my life and I never realized this until just now. Weird.

[@peterboyd7149]

My Medication makes my dreams more vivid. A bad nightmare can leave unsettled for the whole day. Explaining that to people is hard.

[@camagu9201]

I dream everyday and I have pretty cool dreams most of the time. I fly a lot and I've done some really cool things in my dreams. Sometimes, for some reason, people in my dreams don't like it when I fly.

[@d3adm3mori3s9]

Me too, the graphic death dreams are the worst

[@latoyabrathwaite]

Sleep paralysis for me comes with auditory hallucinations, and it's terrifying because I can't move. I can understand how scary hearing voices can be for someone with schizophrenia.

[@blainegoodkey8096]

I’ve never heard this analogy from anyone else but it is the way I understand my son’s psychoses, especially as he recovers. I notice his paranoid delusions “fading” just like my dreams do. A few hours after I wake up I can’t remember many details. When psychotic he has negative feelings toward certain people and I’m amazed how those feelings seem to evaporate as he recovers. Thanks for confirming my intuition that he truly has forgotten those thoughts and feelings.

[@dsego84]

Noticed the same thing with my brother, how it fades out, fascinating to observe. But I think the reverse might be true as well, it can sneak back in and he is successful at hiding it from us until it's too late and it takes a hold. Unfortunately, he distances from family and sees us as enemies so it's hard to help.

[@mahnoor2775]

This was such a helpful analogy😲

[@d-meth]

Really? Do you ever think your dreams are real and at the same time being told they aren't by pretty much everyone? Because I think that's the biggest issue =/

[@mahnoor2775]

@@d-meth Yes, you are right its definitely not exactly the same. That is the part Lauren talks about in the end.

[@hannahgallagher6008]

I love this analogy! I don't have schizophrenia, but I have been in psychosis before since I'm bipolar. When I try to explain what it is like to people, I often describe it as being in a fever dream. It was interesting to see that neuroscientists make this comparison as well!

[@leiasart4610]

Sorry, besides the point but - you are so beautiful here (and always of corse) lauren :') And I just love hearing you explain all these things and giving that kind of insight, I really appreciate the channel!

[@skidwilldanceforyou]

If you’ve ever feared for your life literally. Just imagine that feeling

[@d-meth]

How do you mean? Like badly injured and fearing death? Being attacked and terrified they'll kill you? Having an asthma attack and unable to talk (call 911) or use inhaler? Losing control of a vehicle and fearing you'll go down a ravine or crash and die? Wanting to harm yourself yet kinda having second thoughts?

[@skidwilldanceforyou]

@@d-meth yep that’s the feeling constantly

[@poopskinniccer9992]

Every van is a FBI NSA van trying to steal you.

[@superchef78]

@@poopskinniccer9992 woah! Spot on. This is exactly right. It makes you not want to look out the window and if you’re a passenger in car it really freaks you out because they’re all over the road. Especially the newer white, small vans with no windows.

[@gergs988]

As a kid I used to hallucinate often. I didn’t know there was language to describe this experience at that age, but I likened it to “dreaming while awake”. Haven’t experienced it for many years, but I really appreciate how this video was able to describe psychosis in such a profound way. It’s easier to understand this on an empathetic level. Really awesome work you do, thank you 😊

[@Badass_Brains]

It's amazing that you were that intuitive about what was going on even at an early age. Do you ever experience hallucinations nowadays? Can you lucid dream?

[@Chucanelli]

I didn’t know that psychosis in schizophrenia wasn’t continuous. It makes sense, I guess I’d just never thought about it. Thanks for this concise, informative video!

[@ToEKnee213]

Very educational and interesting! Thank you for "dumbing it down" for us (me). 💜

[@dyrefate]

Great video. I also think there's a lot of symbolism in both dreams and psychosis.

[@alexandriavictoria1220]

This is a really good way to show someone what psychosis is like. For me, I don't have Schizophrenia but I genuinely want to know more because I have a character I'm writing and I also just to be more informed, so relating psychosis to something as simple as dreaming I feel is a really good way to look at it. Another great video! Keep up the good work and bless everyone who is going through these mental challenges! You guys are truly inspirational!

[@AAA-cc4pg]

Schizophrenia is a lot less complex than people who don't have schizophrenia think.

[@erinmurphy3263]

I've always wondered the extent to which some psychosis might essentially be waking dreaming.

[@Badass_Brains]

Quite trippy that everyone's brains simulate psychosis like that!

[@julietamagnetto7357]

After watching many of your videos about psychosis and having gone through anxiety attacks and rocd, I went through a period where I started feeling that so many of my thoughts were irrational and out of control, and I started dreaming that I had psychosis. I´m pretty sure it drew me closer to what the experience, but of course I won´t know it as well as an actual sufferer, though it just felt so real and lifelike. It was very sad. I feel for people who go through it in their lives every day.

[@izelnesimoglu1859]

Your videos continue to grow my empathy and insight! Thank you

[@jennbreton3030]

When you wake up from a dream - you’re aware you were in a dream. When you “wake up” from psychosis, does one realize that what they were experiencing was psychosis? Or is it like it never happened at all?

[@kth260]

A bit of both

[@hectormanuel8360]

Sometimes. It can be difficult to realize what happened.

[@godfreycarmichael]

Great question!

[@camagu9201]

How can you wake up when you're already awake? You don't wake up from psychosis. Ever seen a math equation and thought ''this is too hard to simplify?'' You can see the equation and all the numbers but there's something you're missing.

[@drwt4685]

when your dreaming it feels real intill you wake up schizophrenia your dreaming whilst you're awake it's a dream you can't wake up from its either full on in your face when at your worst or slowly fading away at your best but it's always there

[@justicegomes7090]

thanks so much for making this video. it makes so much sense. my best friend suffers with psychosis and i have been trying to hard to help and understand her more. this video has helped a lot. i wish there wasn’t such a bad stigma :(

[@OffGridDreamLife]

I am a social worker and 80% of my clients have schizophrenia. I don’t think there has been a day that’s gone by that I haven’t thought about the terrible stigma there is for the disorder. I always assure my clients that I do not judge them and that the disorder they have does not define them in any way!

[@fiftyfiveseventythree]

I like the dreams where I realize I am dreaming and take control, I don't have this happen often but they are so enjoyable when I do realize I am dreaming. The last time I was psychotic I thought I was wolverine from Xman.... It was strange to say the least.

[@Badass_Brains]

How long did your belief that you were Wolverine last? And do you experience lucid dreams often?

[@fiftyfiveseventythree]

@@Badass_Brains My belief I was wolverine lasted about a day until my anti psychotics kicked in. As for the lucid dream I've only had it happen a couple times in my life, but it is interesting to do whatever you like in the dream you are given.

[@Badass_Brains]

@@fiftyfiveseventythree sounds trippy, glad it didn't last long!

[@fiftyfiveseventythree]

@@Badass_Brains Indeed. the staff didn't like what I was saying, they tackled me to the ground and put me in a choke hold on me at one point for making the other psychotic patients act out, lol.

[@anastasia1522]

Thanks for this video, it was very interesting! I've had "negative symptoms" during dreaming, I've had dreams where I felt as if I was very sleepy, couldn't fully wake up and was trying to splash water on my face.

[@crabbtrixexp]

i think psychiatrists would be more helpful if they acknowledged that dreams like psychotic symptoms are not just a malfunction of the brain, or arbitrary delusions, but more a real thing, designed to tell us something about ourselves and our purpose in life. Carl jung had far more figured out about the purpose of our dreams and our subconscious mind, than Sigmund Freud, but Jung's work gets too overlooked. It would be much more helpful to us if we were able to analyse dreams in a way that would unlock symptoms of schizophrenia rather than having to be medicated. Interestingly i find my dreams more vivid and scary on olanzapine, because my brain doesn't go into a proper deep sleep, so that's probably why we sleep so much on them, because its not quality sleep, so we need more than normal. Of course I don't mean that psychosis is real in a way that can cause physical harm to us, but that it can be harnessed to heal us, and expel the fears that we are struggling to move past, because being medicated kinda leaves us in limbo imo, and shouldn't be the cornerstone of treatment that it is.

[@jasonsketching7474]

I’m on olanzapine and have the same problem. I can’t sleep deep anymore and keep having vivid dreams.

[@fishdonthavefeelings4751]

Elliott Smith!

[@crabbtrixexp]

👍👍👍!

[@crabbtrixexp]

I know, I’ve been on lots of different antipsychotics, and they all effect my sleep this way, if they’re keeping me well then I guess it’s a worthwhile trade off. But I’m trying to get off antipsychotics, however it’s taken a number of years for me to get down from 10mg to the 5mg I’m on now, it would be great to be well without them, but I know that’s not always a possibility, but can be worth trying, and I feel safe cutting down, and feel like I’m still adjusting to the dose I’m on now, so I’m not going to reduce it any more until I feel like I’m ready.

[@kahlinrox]

as a mental health nurse in training this video is super helpful and insightful, having that extra bit of understanding i am sure will do wonders to improve the care i can provide :) thank you so much!

[@lucasmiller401]

Very educational video, but was anyone else expecting an actual simulation?

[@pewpandagamermom]

As someone who appreciates literary devices, that is one of the best hooks for a presentation I have ever heard. Kudos!

[@collinrobinson9966]

I've been watching your channel as of late. I was recently diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. There are moments where I still don't believe it. But watching your channel helps me understand more of what I've gone through, and may go through.

[@camagu9201]

I don't think anyone ever believes it - such vivid "'hallucinations". Never heard of a schizophrenic get hit by a bus because he was dreaming while awake.

[@MrSoldierperson]

I've been telling my son this for months!!

[@samuelabela7685]

I knew it. When i was slipping into depression my most prominent sensation was derealisation. And to empathise with psychotic people i figured they might be sharing a similar experience to mine.

[@Badass_Brains]

Do you ever experience lucid dreams?

[@samuelabela7685]

@@Badass_Brains yeah why? I had sleep paralysis too.

[@ExtravagantDouchebag]

Very creative and useful video that lets us all understand and *connect* to one another regarding psychosis. Thank you -- you and your husband are beautiful people that make living on earth so heartwarming :)

[@suzanneblanton1008]

I love the fact that your baby is going to be hearing your voice while you are doing these videos 👶💕....you are probably going to have to be telling a lot of bedtime stories....lol

[@jordahawke9748]

Y'all are AMAZING people!!! Thank you SO MUCH for your help though your videos. Keep up the blessed work that you are doing to help those that you may not even realize you are helping. Congratulations on the little one! You are helping this world more than you know!!!

[@davea.3160]

Another great video! Great job guys! I hope the pregnancy is going well too!!

[@darkapothecary4116]

I remember dreaming well it is waiting for them to fade out of my mind that is the blessing. Once I was terrified and disturbed in my waking hours

[@kittymeowc8061]

Thanks for making a tangible example. I have pretty terrifying vivid dreams at times so I feel for those who experience this.

[@lyokokid1077]

I have really bad psychosis when I get sleepy. Like even a little bit sleepy. I have never been diagnosed with Schizophrenia. I have visual, auditory, olefactory, and tactile hallucinations.

[@d-meth]

It's a sleep disorder not schizophrenia though. Your brain starts dreaming before your body is ready to =/ Kinda opposite of sleepwalking. OK, maybe not opposite as much as "similar but different". You should try and get a sleep study done.

[@nerysghemor5781]

This honestly makes the idea of schizophrenia less scary to me as someone who has never experienced it. I am a very active dreamer and I remember my dreams almost every night. I can literally sleep and dream for *entertainment*, so that makes it a little less frightening. And even though I sometimes have nightmares it's not always like that at all. :-) The hilarious thing, though, is when my rational mind starts commenting on plot holes in my dreams. XD Do people who have schizophrenia find themselves catching the illogic in their hallucinations or delusions on their own, or nitpicking their "plots" sometimes?

[@Badass_Brains]

"The hilarious thing, though, is when my rational mind starts commenting on plot holes in my dreams." Do you normally have a lucid dream in that moment?

[@nerysghemor5781]

@@Badass_Brains Sometimes, though other times it just brings humor to the dream.

[@cinemasailor]

Because of the similarity between the two states, I’ve often wondered whether schizophrenia actually IS a sleep disorder in some way. Dreaming while awake.

[@camagu9201]

Cool thought but you can't dream real life.

[@feeelf]

Same. When doing some hobby research on these topics I've been tiptoeing on the same track off and on - especially since many with psychotic symptoms struggle with sleep overall.

[@Badass_Brains]

You are not wrong. During dreams (REM sleep) your brain is simulating psychosis in a variety of ways (altered brainwaves, neurotransmitter release, regional changes, etc). Schizophrenia is theorised to be a disorder of consciousness.

[@jmk1962]

Really useful example for us to understand what psychosis is like for our loved ones.

[@rawlife222]

This is great, dear Lauren, I would love more videos like this, how to let others see, how life is for „us“, thank you so much! You’re a great guide and give me strength with your knowledge.

[@kathrynanne6332]

Wow, what a great explanation. I have vivid unsettling anxiety dreams almost every night, so at least I can get a small dose of understanding what it's like for people in psychosis. The good thing about dreams is that all the stupid stuff you do in them goes away whenever you wake up. I guess those who experience psychosis have to deal with the fallout in real life.

[@kelseymariebell99]

‘You’ve already had psychosis occur.’ Thank you! I took Flagyl and had what to me was an experience of psychosis, like walking in a dream, told my therapist, she said it was not, and I thought it was related to the land, Big Island, Hawaii, and even a past life, and, stopped Flagyl, it stopped. I can only imagine having to work, function, drive and that that could occur. Thank you for all you share!

[@kelseymariebell99]

Elements of it, stopped. The, “past life,” connection and experiences still occurred. And, the visual aspect and feeling of it, and it being, “out-of-control,” or creating like a dream or ketamine state (have taken via injection, via a doctor) what you experience in, “the void,” with how impulse manifests visually, in some dimension, that went away, and seeing that in the waking state, when I stopped the Flagyl. Interestingly, in neurofeedback, with ADHD, there is too much theta in the waking state. (Not FDA approved, and, a pattern observed.)

[@sulana8912]

This is crazy to me, I have schizophrenia and lately I am experimenting with lucid dreams. I believe dreams are the key to understanding our subconscious, and psychosis is apart of my subconscious...I am interested in hypnotism too. Any other schizophrenics into exploring consciousness?

[@dwasd6951]

Just don’t do psychedelics, exploring your conscious with things that open doors to demons isn’t nice

[@tabden]

Hate to disagree with you on one point. My daughter is and has been in a persistent state of psychosis for 6 years - treatment resistant.

[@d-meth]

@@dwasd6951 🤣 Psychological trips can be positive or totally neutral and really amazing. "Bad trips" are rare. Although if you already suffer from negative hallucinations I wouldn't mess with psychedelics 😜 Dreams totally are your more or less conscious thoughts and it's easy to proveby just writing down dreams and comparing with things we saw or thought about the day before. Sometimes the connections are weak like hearing a voice that was similar to your friends (reminded you of a person) and then dreaming about them/interacting with them in a dream or watching a movie with a certain scene and then having a similar one in your dream. Also common is having "bad dreams" when uncomfortable, as in dreaming about negative events from your past (or a story loosely based on them) when you kicked your covers of and arenow cold...

[@dwasd6951]

@@d-meth I know I’ve done acid about 20-21 times and had mostly good trips but it’s not good to expose your spirit like that so it can be attacked by demons just happy I’m set free by Jesus 🕊

[@Badass_Brains]

"Any other schizophrenics into exploring consciousness?" - Both REM sleep (dreams) and psychosis are characterised by primary consciousness. Schizophrenia is thought to be a disorder of consciousness because dreams are simulations of psychosis.

[@Worshipsatch]

Thanks for the video... It seems Freud was really spot on, even after so many years...

[@painzockt]

This analogy makes me now afraid of having dreams D: But it helps to understand a litle bit better how a psychosis might feel.

[@solecrush]

I don’t know if it helps other but I play my guitar and hypnotize it out ...music with lyrics also trigger me ...sometime I DO catch myself staring like it were a dream ...so I created an environment

[@hank1231]

I've been experiencing sleep hallucinations most of my adult life...they are never good. I can't imagine dealing with hallucinations like that n the way people with schizophrenia do.

[@maryannscott5567]

Wow. Thank you so much for this video! Lots of love. Stay safe.

[@kathymarler1446]

Amazing! Again, this was so helpful!

[@kristasoderland-gloystein3338]

Lauren and Rob, I don't know if you'll see this comment, but I have to try. :) I am currently working on my first novel, in which my main character lives with schizoaffective disorder. I came to this conclusion while "getting to know" her and have been gobbling up every piece of information I can find so that I can present the best possible point of view of what it's like to live with this illness, not having experienced it myself (side note: I still haven't found someone I can talk to who has that lived experience, but it *will* happen before publication). I've watched many of your videos and keep an eye out for topics that might prove especially helpful, and this one nailed it for me. I've been trying to figure out how to get myself in the state of mind to write my character's psychosis scenes, and nothing has worked very well so far. But I remember many of my dreams vividly, which I now realize could be a good place to start for reference. Thank you for your videos. My goal is to write a book that will look at schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder through the most correct and empathetic lens possible, and I wouldn't even be able to get close were it not for your videos. I can't imagine the challenges you face as you decide what to share here and how vulnerable it must make you feel. But you are doing something that not only provides support for others who live with these conditions, but will help me in my pursuit of spreading information to many others. It doesn't sound strong enough, but I'll say it again. Thank you.

[@federicopettinicchio]

There is one key difference which is interaction with others, in a dream you all share the same psychosis. There is a shared reality. In a psychotic episode there is no such a thing as an underlying shared reality. That sounds like a small difference but it makes all the difference in the world and triggers all sorts of mechanisms, distrust and feelings of isolation become very common and get then fed back into delusions. Similarly to how in a dream if everything is going well and you have a negative emotion the dream tends to shift around it. The bottomline is that you will not have the same emotions and thoughts and you will not behave like you used to, so people will not treat you in the same way, and that's very destabilizing. It's similar to a dream but the degree of control you feel in a dream is nowhere to be found and interaction with others is nowhere near as effortless. Compared to other people with schizophrenia I have it good in my psychosis, 90% of the time I find it enjoyable even, socially crippling but enjoyable. The remaining 10% though is downright horrific to the point that I wouldn't wish it to my worst enemy. The loss of inhibition equals a loss of control, the intrusive thoughts that make you scream shut up repeatedly not because you expect them to stop but because while you scream they aren't there, the crippling emotions I didn't even think were physically possible before I experienced them. I have it good because my hallucinations are very mild, mainly limited to hearing different words in songs that create their own narrative and in the peak of my psychosis visual hallucinations at the corners of my peripheral vision, very mild as well. Also another thing that's missing is how much it warps your attention, that's hardly noticeable in a dream because the requests within are in line with your attention but when you are psychotic your attention is all over the place to the point that I can gauge how psychotic I am by putting up an audiobook and checking how much I can follow the story. At peak psychosis I would have no fucking clue what happened in the chapter I just listened to even if that's all I was doing. The cognitive decline is real, even while good there is a stark contrast in performance to before becoming schizophrenic but while at peak psychosis it's pretty much a lost cause trying to perform any cognitive task that requires a consistent attention span.

[@ThomasJr]

*The analogy is limited, yes, because when we're dreaming, there are two ways that we can become aware that what we're experiencing is a dream: first, we can wake up, second, during the dream at times it's possible to realize that all is just a dream. I'm not sure how the second happens, but at times (not many) I was able to realize that the surreal experiences I was going through were not the reality. Basically I do this by noticing how surreal and unreal and (at times) very negative the experiences are, mostly when the dream is scary, which in my case is common. So, feeling like you're falling, or something is chasing after you, or that someone wants to kill you (a delusion in the real world, but real in the dream), or that something bad happened to someone you love. Many times my dreams are nightmares, so much so that I realize that it is actually a bad dream in the very middle of the dream. Schizophrenia is like having nightmares even when you're not sleeping, as Cecilia put it.*

[@romana316]

I actually almost always am aware that I'm dreaming.

[@elhamk945]

Ok this was excellently described. THANKS! For many years I get nasty nightmares from my early 30s. They happen once or twice a month and are very draining and scary. It can be challenging in the middle of the night for my kids but they kindly wake me up calm me down. Sometimes I am so shaken literally one of them sleeps next to me. I guess I do experience psychosis in the middle of the night and also now understand how frightening this can be for a schizophrenic person.

[@jameslewis5131]

Life is dream we have always been hallucinating our collective conscious reality how can you tell yourself your awake were all asleep and dreaming an interpretation of what reality is

[@nihil8436]

Very true, but this is frowned upon, best to stay well away from the mental health system with these views, they simply pathologise the human condition. A natural modern day progression of people being burnt or hung for claiming the worls was round or that asteroids come from space.

[@adakadak1012]

Sorry but that is not correct. You are in the PHYSICAL world. Where you can touch physical things. Therefore, you are not in a dream. Also, you and every other human on this earth is an individual. With individual free will. There is no such thing as a "collective conscious" when you, the individual is living life in your own way. Someone is watching too many pseudo faux spiritual KZbin channels. Where people act like they know everything. Stay away from those.

[@jameslewis5131]

Modem neuroscience mostly debunks freewill and says our brain\mind simulates reality it's not the way it actually looks the brain is hallucinating dreaming it up philosophers like metzinger Kant Spinoza schopenhauer in there own ways have said life is dream simulation check out you tube video your brain hallucinates your conscious reality different animal's different dreams interpretations of so called reality

[@jameslewis5131]

The will to life is an unconscious force a dream and were the puppets who pretend not to have strings attached

[@devora4809]

That might be true

[@chrisl3330]

It's like watching the news and not being sure if it's real or not. :-(

[@craig243ful]

thats how i exsplain it to people its like dreaming but your awake

[@cheriebellefleur8334]

It is a very interesting analogue, thank you for sharing with us, Lauren! :)

[@humblepie7048]

I have a lot of sleep disorders, sleep paralysis with hallucinations being one of them. They are terrifying and I cannot understand the fad of *wanting* to experience SP. Essentially, with SP, you are fully awake and fully asleep in REM at the same time. Sometimes I see things before my eyes are even closed. Whatever sounds I hear around me while in this state are turned into a very warped and horrifying version of "reality". Sometimes I think I am awake and moving around the house or outdoors, when in reality I am very much paralyzed and still lying on the bed. I have often wondered if psychosis was anything like dreaming while being awake. It sounds like, to some degree, that it is and definitely is not in others. I am sincerely grateful for informational videos like this one. Education is always so important.

[@JamesH-oj1ly]

Wow you've just described my experience, I've woke up many times to my brian warping external noises to the point where it sounds and is interperated as very scary, I've been looking into what this may be, have you any ideas?

[@DopamineSchizo]

great original points!

[@tamarabradberry9299]

Vivid dreamer here. Thanks for the analogy

[@ivorymantis1026]

So. I don't know why but I can't tell if I'm awake or dreaming half the time. No matter how bizarre or chaotic a dream I produce feels, my mind says "this is normal" and I just go about my day. If I wake up from a nap, I can *literally* wake up into a dream and start going about my day until something goes wrong. Like just recently where I had a short bout of sleep paralysis after a catnap. I saw something making a violet light behind me and just felt this electrified sensation as it rolled up and down my body from behind. Tickling at me with it's jellyfish appendages and sounding like radio static. I fell back asleep in my dream. Then woke up. Is this a trait? Every time I try to venture out and talk with someone on these sorts of things I just get amused psychologists intrigued in all the random scenery, bizarre alien scenarios, and basically entertained by the situations I land myself in. No one really gives me any other insight because I'm not a deranged psychopath.

[@susanf1566]

I suffered from night terrors for years which cause me to have visual hallucinations only in my sleep. I sometimes can recall if I wake up during it but most of the time it's my husband that let's me know when I have them. It's always someone trying to stab or shoot me. I have about 3 to 4 per week. Taking valerian root before bed helps with severity. Prior to getting them I use to have vivid dreams and dreams within dreams. Not as much anymore just night terrors.

[@timothycurnock9162]

You are such a great representative. 😊💯💯

[@streaming5332]

Dreaming is essential to staying sane, you process your experiences in your dreams. You're in big trouble if you don't dream. Schizophrenics often don't have dreams. She's giving the impression there's something wrong with dreaming. Quite the opposite. Any professional will tell you you need to dream to stay mentally healthy. I've never heard the theories she's put forth before.

[@godfreycarmichael]

Really useful information. Very thought provoking. Real life seems so boring and mundane compared to dreams. But I don't think I would like to be stuck in a dream.

[@vincilai6531]

such a cool analogy! thank you!

[@BlairPittams]

I often call it a living nightmare

[@raymondturpin3265]

I have a cousin that said he has never remembered a dream. Cant recall a one. I personally often remember my dreams nightly

[@andreasvader]

i also remember especially good dreams. i remember something from bad dreams

[@5p674]

Excellent video!

[@adolphaselrah9506]

I once dreamt that I got a haircut with my sister. My sister is married. I'm still confused why it was a haircut that I dreamt about instead of something cooler.

[@aaymathebest4705]

Hi Lauren,can you tell please about your medicines and effect on child?can you arranged a meeting with your phsyciatrist instead of everything telling on your own?can you arranged a meeting with your phsyciatrist,so he did a interview with you regarding your symtoms,illness,medications,about ypur delusion,hallucination?

[@nihil8436]

Are you pregnant and on medication?

[@barrybobert9294]

You should stream on twitch or something

[@C_Error404]

I dont think psychosis is like dreaming not just because I experience both regularity but I feel like you are in a very different state of mind when hallucinating (atleast I am) so to me it's a VERY different "experience"

[@Juefawn]

I think there is a chemical affinity between dream state and psychosis. It's probably hormonal. I don't know much about this and I read popular neuroscience research, maybe I will search the net more specifically.

[@dorothywatkins677]

Thank you so much for this video I am schizo affective bipolar type and sometimes I think I'm just bipolar but this really helped. Actually I just had an appointment with my psychiatrist and we reafirmed that. You make great videos, please continue to do that:) also do you have a instagram?

[@JesseUnderdog]

I DO NOT recommend this but a state even closer to schizophrenia happens when you don't sleep for days. When you dream, your brain does what it needs while no excessive perceptions interrupt. That's the way it should be and thus it's generally more peaceful (high fever, too much stress, noisy environment, etc. can offset that and cause nightmares). Every day your brain needs to go through your experiences from the day and store them into proper memories. When you don't allow your brain this down-time (get sleep-deprived) it runs out of capacity to store all the things you experience and switches to an emergency state when it tries to do this on the fly, that is while you're awake. The problem is, it's trying to do 2 fundamentally different things - forcing your brain to sleep state while handling the alert/awake state - both of these states use the same neurotransmitters but each uses them differently. Your dopamine and serotonin is being admitted when it shouldn't, you're basically dreaming while being awake, that is while being fully perceptive, and brain has very hard time distinguishing/switching between the two and easily misinterprets the signals. You start hallucinating, you can't focus or find the correct associations for words, faces or noises, you get confused - you get delusional, paranoid, your mood is all over the place since the brain is simply on overdrive and was not designed to do that (it was designed to do it with as little perception as possible - that's why we filter out sounds, close our eyes and don't move much while sleeping). This my personal observation but please SLEEP AS MUCH AS YOU CAN since you're killing your brain irreversibly when not sleeping properly.

[@babykrul]

Oh my god... the days before every deadline... I've never felt so dead as those times. I could still see reality, but just the way your heart jumps at every little thing, the sweating, seeing a distorted face in the mirror, getting a bit manic during the day, realizing you have another day to go before you can sleep... horrible horrible. you're right. You just motivated me to plan better. This was a wake up call. THANK YOU! I always thought like 'oh well I'll recover after' but yes there is some damage done irreversibly.. it's just not worth it.

[@Catlily5]

Sleep problems happen before mental illnesses start and continue as part of most mental illnesses.

[@kilianschwarz2172]

Love your videos! You’re awesome!

[@ikabanaa]

Love this video!

[@peternolan814]

Hello Lauren, Most interesting. Well done. All the best and many thanks, Peter Nolan. Ph.D.(physics). Dublin. Ireland.

[@nonakabyrd5759]

Always have said this very thing!

[@krise114]

Every time I am falling asleep, I hear conversations while in between sleep and wake. Sometimes it’s conversations between many people. Sometimes it is just me and another person(s). Sometimes it’s just “background noise”. But sometimes they are detailed conversations that I remember upon waking. Sometimes it involves math and numbers. Is that what it is like to experience schizophrenia in waking life ?

[@painzockt]

Sometimes I exerience this when I'm half asleep,or have a fake awakening in a dream.Makes me worried if its an onset Symptom of schizophrenia, that i'm about to develop Symptoms. Or sometima I think, fck, now I have it.

[@ClassicMaggie]

love your new hairdue

[@cepolt]

Being on three hits of LSD will do the same. It's like being in a dream as far as moment to moment time. I've always described it as bending your mind to the point of insanity and coming back. Intact, I believe the scientist who discovered LSD remarked something similar ( to briefly know what it's like to have insanity and to come back).

[@marvintu4729]

Schizophrenia...I experience it in Chinese language and still continue in English (depends American or British) and Indian and Nepali language mostly as I am in that region for almost around a year ...and dreams it's all about making me think someother are culprits not the one I think is My step mom,My Only sister Younger daughter and the women and her family who used to live with my father after my mother died two and half decades ago.... something is going to happen sooner or later

[@Endgame7]

Holy crap. Good job.

[@a.o.9594]

This is I hate dreaming I wake up from dreams lots of times in a panic.

[@johnphantom]

As a schizophrenic that has been doctor tested as at least a genius (I was angry and not trying, I quit the test 3/4ths the way through with the doctor writing in his notes that I can get I said "This is unproductive", my average if I had finished the tests is 158.2 with the limit being 162 and Einstein/Hawking being estimated at the limit). I think "A Beautiful Mind" illustrated schizophrenics fascination with connections, called apophenia, which is my work in its entirety. To sum up what I believe is a new form of logic, briefly: No quantum computer now is designed to use entanglement, and I think i have come up with a new form of logic that can be applied only using entanglement; dynamic connections, or dynamic geometric logic, or logic through the changing shape of geometry, like a truth table that the truths change and is essentially functional programming, and is logic without information. I came up with a model for a new type of computer based only on dynamic connections, from playing a game, Counter-Strike (a Half-Life mod) when it was in its original beta phase. The system was very poorly designed, like the accuracy system for the weapons was designed that if you slow down to a walk, your guns were more accurate, but they set the parameters up so that it triggered this extra accuracy just going the slightest speed under a full run. Using +moveup which was meant for swimming in the scripting language, which is the only "language" I used, you could get half way between a run and a walk for movement speed and get the accuracy of a walk and the silence of it, with movement sound being another similar flaw they made in the game. That combined with scripting firing of the gun so it briefly made you do +moveup before actually firing the gun and turning it off immediately after firing the gun effectively gave you a more accurate gun at a running speed. There were many holes in the original CS system, I repeatedly told them about them on their message board, getting repeatedly banned. I remind you: I only used the extremely simplistic scripting language built into the game, so I was exploiting and not cheating, even though in effect it was cheating. CS 1.6 should have been CS 2.0 because they made major changes to the engine due to what I was spreading around. At least one of the hacks that I kept to myself and did not put into my script still exist in the current CS system as far as I know. It was basic to the Quakeworld original engine Half-Life is based on. The script that is part of my work, for CS 1.6, has a fully automated taunt system for giving people a hard time. I built a randomizer and relational database that sometimes spits out a taunt based on the weapon or weapon type you are using just before your gun is actually fired when you fire, only using the one command, alias. Alias just lets you create or reassign a command to an indicated string of commands, and nothing else - basically, I can name (better fit than name: emulate) that tune in one note; with dynamic connections. I did not set out to do this, it just happened. I originally wanted a script to quickly buy weapons, and it developed from there. I have kept every beta and final released versions of the script from beginning to end, to show how it developed. I propose a "Dynamic Stateless Computer" that operates on "Logic Geometry" based only on connections, or links, or pointers - a much more simple computer than the three basic Boolean logic gates operating on mathematical binary bits that is every computer out there. The shape is the logic and the logic is the shape. Quantum mechanics is beyond me, but if this only needs connections, ie a quantum entanglement (short video on entanglement: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGKqdKGvmMeAm6M ), can we build a computer that operates and does its entire run instantly? Like I said, all I need is dynamic connections to perform logic... no need for information... the changing shape is the logic. I understand some of quantum computers is supposedly instant, but sorting with Grover's Algorithm takes time. You are best off going to Github and seeing online without downloading the paper and models. When someone looked at my calculators, they accused me of: "You're not doing math! You're emulating math!" Look at the simple calculator first, it only does addition and subtraction. Then look at the complex calculator that does multiplication and division. As you well know, if I can do those things, I can do anything mathematically. In the main model I created if-thens, complex do-whiles, a randomizer and a relational database. github.com/johnphantom/Dynamic-Stateless-Computer Through the exercise of the most complex do-while I asked a question related to that, and the answer uses the ancient Chinese/Pascal's Triangle (which millions have looked at over thousands of years) in a new way: mathhelpforum.com/threads/combination-lock.17147/ I basically had to count nothing as something to count, as in you can have different items to count the permutations of but a default state of no item is possible for each, some or all to count in the permutations, and it doesn't seem anyone else in history was able to use the really basic mathematical concept of the Triangle in that way for the solution. It is similar to how hats can be arranged on pegs question of how many permutations you can have that is commonly associated with Pascal's Triangle, but they did not count the empty pegs as part of the permutations that they can have. The technique of the implementation is a little interesting, with it being able to reach any of the 209 possible permutations of 4 wheels with 4 numbers (don't know if I should count 0, it is special in this case - if you do count 0, it is 5 numbers) in 4 keystrokes or less - it's how it scales that is the curiosity, where if I had 18 slots and 18 unique items to form a permutation it would have almost 3x10 to the 18th power or 2,968,971,264,021,448,999 possible permutations, each reachable within 18 keystrokes or less. I don't have any idea as to how this would be physically built - none of the aspects of it, except for the dynamic geometric logic that I also do not have any clue if it really is what I ask above. I just can do these things I demonstrate and in my extensive almost 50 years of digital computer experience I have not seen anything exactly like it. Maybe you wonder about my computer experience? I have always been fascinated by computers, starting in 1972 using a prototype Cogar 4 that my dad got his hands on, when I was 3. By the time I was 5, Singer wanted to use me in a commercial to sell the computer, because if a 5 yo could start it, load the OS and then load games, that proved anyone could. My first mentor helped develop ethernet after working for my father, and allowed me to hold one of the first breadboard ethernet cards developed when I was 10 telling me, "This is the future." My first real program (programming since at least 5 if you count the Cogar ASM I had to type to get to the OS and games) was in BASIC when I was 11 that I learned from a manual without anything more than a small example for each command, written with pencil on paper; a rudimentary AI demonstration called "Animals". Second program I made I had another computer (we had moved and left the one at my dads company behind when he sold it) and was a dot bouncing around the screen. Third program, with a 12 year old's understanding of math, I attempted to do 3D. I first professionally programmed in 1982, started building computers and networks for a small computer company in 1986 owned by my second mentor, Peter De Blanc who lead ICANN for a period, was an official beta tester and developer for OS/2 2.0 and developed a device driver for it for the extremely complex Truevision Targa+ 64 video editing board (pic: imgur.com/a/hMe21Qe ) directly flipping bits on it in 1991. The code for the model for the dynamic stateless computer is about 640 lines and took me 6 months to complete, with the code for the Targa+ device driver being over 4200 lines and took me one 20 hour sitting that compiled and ran the first time that I have 3 witnesses for. That's almost 30 years ago. My experience has only gone up from there. This dynamic geometric logic is something I found, that I have never seen anything like even searching for it on the Internet for the past 20 years. I think this is basic to everything and is a new science, as it only operates on one concept - dynamic connections. I am looking for help explaining this and turning the old Counter-Strike 1.6 script into a package for Counter-Strike:Global Offensive, the latest version. I am not talking about converting the code, it works - I just need help with the current packaging for CS:GO. Any input would be great, thank you. [e-mail] (this was my first email address that I got in 1996 BEFORE Microsoft bought them so if you send an email there please make sure you add me to your address book, as this email addy is marked as spam all the time.)

[@GPoole05]

Love this!

[@earthmama5561]

Continuing the dream state analogy... would the practice of lucid dreaming possibly assist in alleviating symptoms? I am nothing more than one of higher risk due to both genetics and working on the path of awareness, awakening e.t.c

[@Mallus01]

I think dreaming and hallucinations comes from the same place in the brain. And maybe one day we can cure hallucinations

[@madalynrhian9372]

I will start out having a normal dream then it will turn very dark quick. Almost like it is the purge and everyone around me in dying. I have to be the hero in my dreams. When i get hurt it feels real and i end up waking up feeling extremely drained.

[@OtherwisePanic]

Hello, Lauren! Great video as always! I have a question I'd like to ask you in regards to psychedelics and their use in treating mental health conditions. Compounds such as LSD and Psilocybin containing mushrooms. In the 50's, during LSD experiment trials, they used the compounds to try to understand the human psyche. In particular, LSD was used to try and understand the mind of those with schizophrenia, being as the symptoms of schizophrenia and LSD intoxication overlap, much like those between schizophrenia and dreams. It was thought that LSD could be a powerful tool in treating illnesses like schizophrenia, but when psychedelic research later became illegal those trials came to a halt. Do you have any experiences with these types of compounds? Have you heard of these trials in LSD assisted psychotherapy, and what are your thoughts on the topic, if any at all? I am currently trying to use these substances to treat my mental health issues, and these compounds and powerful and helpful indeed.

[@etbadaboum]

Psychedelics are HIGHLY recommended not be used when suffering from schizophrenia! Don't use them!

[@jameslewis5131]

There is no mind and we are hallucinating reality and what dreams may come after we shift this mortal coil

[@OtherwisePanic]

@@jameslewis5131 We couldn't hallucinate reality without mind. There is body. There is mind. There is the soul. There is the god. The better argument, IMO, there is no free will. The physical coil is where we reside, but not what we are. For instance, if you close your eyes and make the conscious decision to not think, thoughts will flow no matter. There's a frequency of which our "thoughts" are picked up from. Many believe we are our thoughts.

[@OtherwisePanic]

@@etbadaboum It is highly recommended not to be used, yes. But that comes from the current state on non-understanding. I've know people who's schizophrenia symptoms are well managed with LSD in particular. Do you have any experiences with such compounds?

[@jameslewis5131]

Some People who have reached enlightenment have said there's no mind no self always changing from moment to moment no continuity of thoughts

[@jakiasultana137]

Thanks you

[@BlairPittams]

I'd heard something mentioned to me on this matter over 18 years ago by a cook for the mentally ill. He said some people dream when their awake, I personally found this the best answer

[@cliffcurtistruth]

I'm trying to figure out a way to convince someone they have schizophrenia. She's a pretty girl whose life is being ruined and she desperately needs medication. She has a boyfriend who is fully aware of her condition and wants her to come home but she wanders around town going to friend's houses looking for cleaning work or just a place to hang out for awhile. She comes to my door about once or twice a week and I let her clean my kitchen for $20 (dishes and wipe down counters). More often than not she is hungry and wants to use the shower first. I let her and make her dinner while she's in there and then she's happy to clean up afterwards. Problem is she is always angry about her boyfriend "changed" and someone she believes is tracking her. Arguments for both are ridiculous. The cleaning takes her well over an hour, what anyone else could do in under 20 minutes. What makes everybody know she's schizophrenic is a voice she is always talking to. She says it's not in her head (imagination) but actual sound coming from an angle in front of her, a few feet away. It's very sad to watch and she can't be convinced it's not real. She fears being considered crazy and is sometimes frustrated that no one else hears the voice. She seems to trust me and I think I could get her to take medication if only I could get it.

[@dsego84]

Convincing and logic don't work with delusions unfortunately. Unless you are John Nash I guess. Maybe if she has other symptoms like problems with sleeping or mood, you could get her to seek help for those.

[@AdeSinica]

try to convince her that hospitalization and medications can give her a normal life like others have,and after that she will be normal,she will see things differently, think differently,feel differently,the world can be entirely different after a while if she will go to hospital.curiosity and the desire to feel normal can make her to accept the help.so make her curios about "a other life" ,talk to her about what means to be normal and why she is not in the norm.maybe she will start to be aware that its a problem somewhere.

[@skidwilldanceforyou]

I really need sleep but once I get to plus 24 hours I can’t sleep. I hear Lauren say how important sleep is and I agree. I just can’t.

[@vale29mo]

Very helpful

[@Aria0101]

ah so I was not wrong to call a salvia trip a 5-minute psychosis. it instantly makes you disassociate from your body, causing disorientation, you hallucinate and have delusions, you can go from euphoria to feeling like you are going to die in a minute, and then you can hardly grasp a memory of any of it, it does feel very much like an agressively vivid dream.

[@stoneyvowell1239]

That is an awesome way to look at it. It could also explain quite a few things and lead us to better explanations for so many symptoms and experiences. And just a little bit of information on the word anosognosia. According to Google I guess it is pronounced differently. Everytime I voice search for the way you pronounce it or try to voice text the word it doesn't come up and doesn't give me any suggestions. I guess the accent should be on the A-nos-.

[@nadiaa8357]

Amazing