What is Schizophrenia?
Health & Wellness
September 18th 2018
For the sake of explanation, think of the brain as a graphic user interface (GUI), such as a web browser, translating a series of 0s and 1s into projections of sight and sound. It is a matter of assembling information into usable patterns. Likewise, the brain, through its sense organs of sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch, as well as other senses, puts the electromagnetic waves, and slices of time of the real universe into an order that makes sense. Presented on our “screens” are trees, people, music, noise, hot and cold, pain, intuition, cause and effect, and life in general.
Pareidolia? What?
Humans are creatures inundated with pareidolia. This refers to the tendency to see patterns and assign meaning to them. It is seeing an elephant in a cloud, white snakes along lines in a paragraph that separates the words, face profiles in the veins of marble, or the man in the Moon. It has been said that pareidolia is a sort of flaw, but on a grander scale, a simi ...