RE: My thread for Charity :) x
May 3, 2026 at 3:05 am
(May 3, 2026 at 1:44 am)Galahad Wrote: When I was two years old my mother left me for nine hours with a broken leg. I caught pneumonia and nearly died.
ST CHRISTOPHER THE LEGEND ( LEG END ).
As I recall, it's a characteristic of schizophrenic people that they often perceive heightened, unusual, or personal meanings in their environment that others do not see. Is it fair for me to think that this is the case when you notice meanings in names?
If this is impolite of me to ask, please just ignore the question. I am curious because I've never had the opportunity to talk with someone who self-describes as schizophrenic.
Do the meanings that you perceive in the words (e.g. "C HIS HOPE HEAL HOPE") seem to be messages from God? Or are they the workings of your own mind? We know that people are meaning-seeking animals, and it's common for us to look for interpretations of things -- coincidences or appearances that strike us but not others.
I'm thinking of the famous Rorschach Tests, where the analyst shows a series of ink blots to the analysand. The blots have no meaning, but the way the analysand interprets them can be revealing. Likewise the meanings you perceive in combinations of letters could be from your own mind, which doesn't take away their significance -- quite the opposite, the meaning you give them reveals something about yourself.
There's a psychoanalyst who's well-known in Japan who argues that dreams are this way too -- they have no meaning in themselves, but if you get the person who had the dream to interpret it you can get them to tell you a lot.
I don't mean to minimize your perceptions. I'm just curious about how you feel about them. Are the meanings placed there by the universe, or are they personal interpretations you have that take on their significance because they suggest important things to you?
This is one of the reasons that artists are said sometimes to be a bit crazy (if you'll forgive the term). They see patterns or meanings where others don't.