TIL people who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia
2026-05-09 23:52 UTC
Replies (13)
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@BucketBong@p.hobo.social 2026-05-10 02:21
So its the horrors we see that causes it.
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@Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 00:20
Maybe the blind schizophrenics just don't ever know. If they are hearing hallucinations, how would they know they aren't real? It's not like they can see that there's nobody saying these things.
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@IWW4@lemmy.zip 2026-05-10 00:18
Wow, that is wild!
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@RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-10 00:14
Cool! Maybe schizophrenia is when the visual cortex gets leaky and starts interpreting thoughts as sighs.
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@Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 17:27
As someone with aphantasia and no internal monologe it makes sense to me. So many people tell me their brains just send them images and monologe without them "thinking" it themselves first. Like to me they are reacting to what their brain is telling them. And that's what is required to be schizophrenic.
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@Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 2026-05-10 11:08
They also can learn to echolocate to the point the vision area of the brain process it.
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@M137@lemmy.today 2026-05-10 10:26
You somehow forgot a whole word in the title.
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@Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 02:50
I'm not sure. I can not smell things without actually smelling them. Same with taste. I can imagine my hand rubbing on different grit sandpaper and know how they would feel differently but I don't "feel" it. I can play songs in my head with sounds that are like the actual sounds but it's similar to humming or whistling in my head. It's not like I hit play and just listen. I don't get earworms.
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@Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2026-05-12 14:19
Yeah I'm the same way. Always wondered how people were able to give such detailed information to police sketch artists. Like I could work with one but at best it would be them drawing something close and me going "ehh this part and this part isn't right" if I got a really good look at the person. Do you get earworms? I feel in a way I'd have to practice their voice in my head like I was trying to impersonate them vocally, just my mind could make any sound. But I myself couldn't talk in a New York accent because I don't understand what all to change and when. If I heard a New Yorker say a sentence I could repeat it back in my head the same way
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@Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2026-05-12 06:03
What kind of sound hallucinations? Like people or yourself talking to you? Does it sound like you're hearing it from your ears? People can project their mind's eye image into reality. It's most likely schizophrenic people can't control it and would project things they didn't know they were doing. We know it's not there and it's definitely in their mind but they don't realize that they are conjuring it. Same with internal monologe. You have inner speech? I can talk to myself. But someone with an internal monologue they are not talking to themselves like me. Their brain is talking to them, they do not consciously pick each word.
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@Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2026-05-12 19:53
"Seldom anything visual" Like you'd think you saw a black cat out of the corner of your eye and then you look and nothing is there? Or you see the black cat actually sitting there and know it's not real? I understand your inner voice it seems pretty much like mine. Do you get earworms? Or is your inner voice completely voluntary?
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@Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2026-05-13 13:34
I find myself defaulting back to playing the last catchy song I heard if I choose to hum or whistle or just decide to play something in my head. I'd say it's like leaving a cassette in the player, I can switch it out if I think about it, but if I just play "something" there will be a default tape in the player. Hmm that's really interesting. In a way, your mind can create images then because otherwise you wouldn't see them. You just cannot consciously produce an image?
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@Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2026-05-14 03:50
Yeah you lost me Like you get words popping up in your head when you look at a visual stimulus and you can't tell if the word are actually written there?