...if you're a cop, paramedic, or social worker who may someday need to deal with a person having a psychotic episode. At those times, empathy can be crucial.
That's where Virtual Hallucinations comes in. The training device, created by Janssen L.P., is a rig with earphones and goggles that plunges the wearer into the mind of a serious schizophrenic. The system offers two interactive scenarios. In one, you're riding a bus in which other riders appear and disappear, birds of prey claw at the windows, and voices hiss, "He's taking you back to the FBI!" The other features a trip to the drugstore, where the pharmacist seems to be handing you poison instead of pills, and hostile customers stare at you in disgust.
One of the many things that I used to ponder about when I was young was whether crazy people know they are crazy. Well I can now tell you with some authority that, no they do not!
They just think that other people are trying to control their lives and don't understand them because they are unique.
So how would you feel if you experimented with this and found it oddly comforting?
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