Eli5: why do schizophrenic people draw very similar pictures?

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You consistently see schizophrenic people draw those “sacred geometry” diagrams that are often like people with tons of lines and geometric shapes going through them.

Is it just a conspiracy theory that happens to stick well with them? Or is it something inherent that identifies these?

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It’s a combination of things, schizophrenic people often become really interested and obsessed with religion and occultism. In fact, a sudden profound interest in religion and the occult where their previously wasn’t one is one of the signs of schizophrenia, often an early warning sign.
This means schizophrenic people are likely to be much more interested in sacred geometry than the baseline average.

In addition there are common hallucinations that many schizophrenic people share, things like geometry, divine light, and shadow people to name a few.

People have also drawn parallels between schizophrenic people and shamans/prophets, so there’s a bit of a fringe theory with growing popularity that most religions and cults were started by schizophrenic people and based on their hallucinations in the first place, so a lot of the common religious imagery would be schizophrenic people connecting to each other through time. After all, if you had already seen a particular geometric symbol in some kind of vision and then later saw that same symbol in a church, it makes sense how that could connect with you deeply.
This theory has two main schools of thought behind it, one is that all religion is pure delusion. The other is that schizophrenic people are spiritually gifted and modern society suppresses them and sees the difference as a defect.

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