Comment by Kesselya on 04/02/2025 at 22:12 UTC

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View submission: do people with schizophrenia who also need glasses see their hallucinations clear or blurry when not wearing glasses?

I am not schizophrenic, but after I got glasses as a child (I was 7), my dreams were always blurry.

For several months I would have to mime putting on my glasses as I was falling asleep and that somehow tricked my subconscious into thinking I still had my glasses on and my dreams were normal again.

I am 45 now and I do have recurring dreams where I don’t have my glasses, and in the dream I end up having to find my glasses in order for the dream to be clear again.

I have incredibly vivid dreams, in full colour, and I have fairly good recall of my dreams.

I imagine that a schizophrenic person might also have blurry hallucinations. I suspect that it is an individual experience and will vary from person to person.

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Comment by caffa4 at 04/02/2025 at 22:55 UTC

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This is on par with what i was thinking. It probably depends on your baseline state of how your subconscious creates imagery (like imagination, dreaming, etc) and probably is largely impacted by amount of time spent with or without glasses.