XPost: alt.drugs.psychedelics, alt.drugs, alt.drugs.rfg   
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   From: BilZ0r@TAKETHISOUThotmail.com   
      
   Matthew Isleb  wrote in   
   news:pan.2003.12.13.19.40.22.883298@NO.SPAMonshore.com:   
      
   >>> Why is a dream not psychotic?   
   >>   
   >>    I know you are stupid based on your previous posts. But really,   
   >> dreams mean someone is psychotic?   
   >   
   > It wasn't a rhetorical question. I am curious about what Bilzor thinks   
   > is the distinction between a dream and a drug induced hallucination.   
   > Why is the latter psychotic and the former not? Hell, why is any   
   > hallucination necessarily psychotic?   
   >   
   > -matthew   
      
   This is the definition of psychosis I use.   
      
   A mental disorder characterised by gross impairment in reality testing as   
   evidenced by delusions, hallucinations, markedly incoherent speech or   
   disorganised and agitated behaviour without apparent awareness on the   
   part of the patient of the incomprehensibility of his behaviour, the term   
   is also used in a more general sense to refer to mental disorders in   
   which mental functioning is sufficiently impaired as to interfere grossly   
   with the patients capacity to meet the ordinary demands of life.   
      
   if you were dreaming all of the time, and hallucinating (in the lines of   
   DMT all the time) you would be psychotic (and catatonic in the first   
   instance).   
      
   While under the influence of DMT, I think it would be safe to say that   
   you are in a "drug induced psychosis".   
      
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