Simon Says: Psychosis! @SiSaysPSYCHOSIS

I only watched two minutes and forty-five seconds of this film.  Seems accurate enough for me.

** I did watch the rest: I liked the guy saying at the end that it was important for him not to look at life as something that was “blown.”  I don’t like that people use the phrase “you’ll ruin your life.”  Seems to me if you’re still alive then you still have your life.

I caused psychosis by using a drug called dextromethorphan (dxm) for many days in a row and avoiding sleep.

I’d look up the tweets from 2009, but I’m lazy, so I’ll just rewrite how I described losing touch with reality then:

Most of us are riding on a ship together and we see reality as the shoreline.  Although we might have different feelings about what we see, and those feelings color how we describe what we see, we all pretty much agree on the objective features of the land.

Someone who is losing touch with reality jumps off the ship and swims to shore.  From the beach, he can see the same shore.

Then he travels inland, through the treeline and into the forest.  He can still remember the view from the ship and the view from the beach, so he interprets his new experiences within the framework of reality, but he’s seeing things people on the ship cannot see.

He travels for days and eventually the memories of what he knew from the ship start to fade.  He can no longer evaluate what he is seeing and thinking about what he’s seeing in terms of the commonly accepted reality.

The farther he goes, the more he can only remember the feelings he himself has about what he’s been seeing, so any skew from reality grows wider.

To the guy, this is completely natural — it happens so gradually and his perception and thoughts seem so “right” that he does not doubt that what he knows now about his environment and himself is not reality.