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>Schizophrenics really believe they are seeing and hearing things. “I saw it, I saw the wheel in the sky!!” holds no water.
Misunderstanding of what schizophrenia is. Schizophrenia seems to be an inability to process sensory input, be it from the outside or the inside. When a normal person feels anxious, he feels it as a tightening of muscles. When a schizophrenic gets anxious, it's CIA and KGB gangstalking time. It has been proven that schizophrenic voices are internally generated - the laryngeal muscles are working when the voices speak - but the schizophrenic attributes it to an external actor. This is the reason why it has been called schizophrenia - split mind - since perceptive processes and cognition aren't aligned. Usually, it's auditory hallucinations and warped perception that cause delusional beliefs that in turn cause irrational actions. It's far away from the full blown hallucinatory delirium of datura or alcohol withdrawal.
The drugs that mimic schizophrenia the closes are dissociatives, and they aren't known for producing full blown hallucinations, which might show a clue that schizophrenia is a dissociative disorder that involves splitting between perception and the mind that feels perceptions.
To equate schizophrenia with NDEs is very uneducated and shows that you know nothing neither about schizophrenia nor NDEs.
>and hallucinations (psychosis) are literally most common under stress
Psychosis is more than hallucinations. It may not even have hallucinations. It may involve simply an irrational belief that neighbours and family are plotting to kill you. This, alone, may give you the diagnosis as of suffering from psychosis of some kind.
In regards to hallucination and psychosis and stress, psychotic events appear after sustained prolonged stress, like not sleeping for three days, for average people. If you're schizophrenic, then any abuse of the dopamine pathways, like Monster energy drinks, may send you down psychosis, but even there there's an element of time. It happens gradually, not like one moment I'm normal, psychotic the next. And the hallucinations are rather subdued - tactile and auditory, visual not that prominent - and delusional thinking predominates.
What sets NDEs apart from hallucinations and psychosis is that fact that they happen very quick, withing a time frame of 5 to 10 minutes, and involve very detailed and complex and, most important, structured series of events that are, on analysis, even more coherent than DMT sessions. The person is usually lucid, doesn't suffer from delusional beliefs while undergoing an NDE, and often returns with the memory of what happened intact, which is opposite to dreaming, sleep deprivation psychosis, stimulant psychosis, acute schizophrenia, and deliriant psychosis, where the recollection is often fragmentary, disjointed, confused, and chaotic.
You seem to have a very strong snarky opinion about a topic you know nothing about. Very reddit thing.
