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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They don’t. Schizophrenia is highly culturally specific; voices/images/ideas that people with schizophrenia experience vary significantly between cultures because the underlying substrate from which they are built differs based on the previous exposure to the environment. So if your day to day exposure tells you that certain images have mystical/sinister/powerful connotation, and you experience an episode these will be incorporated in them.

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