Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Visual Hallucination Area

In this area, there are both auditory and visual effects to give players in SL a sense of what it means to experience schizophrenia. All throughout the tour, you’re constantly bombarded with voices telling you that you are wrong, you are not real, you are worthless, and that you should kill yourself. When you looked at books all the text faded away with the exception of the word “Death,” the floor disappeared and visions became distorted. One of the stories in the area was of a person who saw himself die in the mirror every morning, and it had a picture that would distort when looked at. The area does give an eerie feeling, but it’s not the same as experiencing a mental illness in real life. It shows a short example of the symptoms, but does not convey the true feelings of that kind of torment.

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