Schizophrenia as Unconscious Unfiltered

[A.I.]

SCHIZOPHRENIA AS THE UNCENSORED UNCONSCIOUS

 

Do you ever have dreams? Do you ever notice that those dreams are not literal? The subconscious is responsible for dreams and the subconscious thinks in metaphors and abstractions in the newly developing brain (I mean that feeling you get when your "waking up" to the truth, etc.).

 

Schizophrenics might say something like, "I can fly." I propose that this is the unfiltered unconscious saying "I am free" in a metaphor. I think that schizophrenics have an overly developed true self and and underdeveloped false self. I once said, when I was younger, "there's a monkey in my salad bowl." Silly, right? Thinking back I think I meant something like "monkey" = troublesome, dangerous and unpredictable in captivity, unwanted, unhelpful creature, "in" = "in the way of," and "salad bowl" = my nutrition = my happiness.

 

That is definitely not proof, but I think it's a pretty damn good theory.