Altered States Of Consciousness of the unsound mind - I am interested to explore this topic because of personal experiences that I encountered. It happened quite recently that my father was not being himself, he experienced random episodes that neither of our family could explain. He would sometimes talk to himself, call out a random person's name that we are unfamiliar with, he would be violent occasionally and he would lose his way even at home. Age was not a huge factor that contributed to this and his health was undetermined to be the likely cause as said by the doctor. The doctor's could not come up with a valid conclusion to his random episode.
Prior to this, a year ago, my Grandmother was critically Ill and during her last few days she experienced hallucinations that at times frightens the very bit of us. She would hallucinate people jumping off a building from her window, children with big red eyes staring at her, insects crawling from her clothing. Sometimes it can be heart warming, or humorous at the same time, she would hallucinate beautiful little children surround her all clad in white, sometimes she would say her late husband would visit her and one which I find it humorous is when she complaint the back of a cow was swaying left and right infront of her face flicking its tail.
As i go through this process, I did a slight research on the unsound mind and there were a few health conditions that paralleled to both my father's and Grandmother's state though both differs greatly. During that period of time, possibly because of the interaction with my dad when he had his episodes, I started to question - which i believe many had asked before - what is it that they see that we dont? what is it that they hear? How do they feel being in that state? Do they know that they are in that current state or they not?.
I have yet to answer them...or can I?
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