We claim that the reality we see is perfectly sound, but when seem in a social, political, demographic,etc,etc,context, the real value of so called reality, is clearly not viable in the long term. I was diagnose with schizophrenia, after a long episode of self imposed sleep deprivation. (Burning the candle at both ends with round the clock,rotating shifts, and a stage production) There were similar symptoms and I was placed on antipsychotic medicines, but one of the symptoms of sleep deprivation is the phenomena called 'dreaming while awake.' While in that state before the medication took effect, I decided that what was said to be 'reality' was subject to qualifications, and reasoning that w...

We claim that the reality we see is perfectly sound, but when seem in a social, political, demographic,etc,etc,context, the real value of so called reality, is clearly not viable in the long term. I was diagnose with schizophrenia, after a long episode of self imposed sleep deprivation. (Burning the candle at both ends with round the clock,rotating shifts, and a stage production) There were similar symptoms and I was placed on antipsychotic medicines, but one of the symptoms of sleep deprivation is the phenomena called 'dreaming while awake.' While in that state before the medication took effect, I decided that what was said to be 'reality' was subject to qualifications, and reasoning that was fundamentally impractical. I attempted, and to a large extent managed to ignore all previous concepts of reality in a situation where I had few reference points. I decided the reason I was in hospital for a reason that was completely genuine, however it was far removed from the reason described by doctors. It was as though I had to rebuild my picture of reality from the bottom up where I searched for meaning in everything, no matter how remote to help build this picture, with the approach that rather that proving something, I tried to eliminate things by proving they were untrue. This was to try and work out why I was in hospital, what reality was, what was sanity, and what aspects of my behavior caused them to think I needed hospitalization. I'm sure a few days sleep would have solved the problem. I learned to see reality in a new way, without losing some of the fundamental aspects that held it together, got an inside view of the incidence of treatment, and symptoms ascribed to some psychiatric disorders, saw examples of other conditions, and my main argument with the doctors was that I had been hospitalized on a suspicion, rather than facts or knowledge. The doctors could not know what I was thinking, and I couldn't explain it not understanding their questions.