Theists, please describe how you experience your god

[Godscreated]

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I find it interesting from a neuroscience perspective. Schizophrenia for example can be disruptive yet religious experience isn't. Probably because for most religious practitioners it actually takes a lot of time and effort to summon up tangible sensory experiences and the recipient probably wants them.

Many people with (for want of a better term) abnormal psychology often claim that it's just a different way of being. There's never a single cut off point where you either have or don't have a particularly psychological condition. Brains are grown and therefore each one is different. Some are on the extreme end of a bell curve and maybe those with such sensory religious experiences  aren't so extreme that their psychological make-up is considered problematic because they can still function in society.

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Found this:

The concept of schizophrenia is coming to an end – here’s why

Just as we now have the concept of autism spectrum disorder, psychosis (typically characterised by distressing hallucinations, delusions, and confused thoughts) is also argued to exist along a continuum and in degrees. Schizophrenia is the severe end of a spectrum or continuum of experiences.

Relevant paper here:

The slow death of the concept of schizophrenia and the painful birth of the psychosis spectrum. 

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Could it be that the theists who think that they can actually see, hear and touch their god actually be on the psychosis spectrum?

 No one here has claimed to have seen, heard and touched God in a physical sense, so what's this have to do with us. I do not actually know of any Christian who has claimed such.

GC

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I remember thinking I experienced supernatural things.

Then I went to a non-Christian concert for the first time and felt the same elation. It’s inspiration. The feeling of “oneness” is the nostalgia of everyone around you just as exhilarated as you. It’s meditation and the result of dedicating your mind to one thing that you’re passionate about. It’s your mind being awesome and allowing you to create sensations based on thoughts, hope, passion, and belief. It’s beautiful, if you think about it in a romantic way, but bad, if you’re being pragmatic.

I have been to many non-Christian concerts and never found them to be like a spiritual oneness with God.

GC