It's past midnight, let's have some scary stories.
just read an interesting paper that makes a lot of sense to me **edit, did i fuck, i read the abstract and the conclusions**
one way of modelling schizophrenia is as a pattern of activity in the brain. one way of measuring this activity is by testing the visual responses of the eye, and the control the patient is able to have over their responses. schizophrenic patients perform badly in a range of tests, one of which involves looking at a target for a while, then the target is moved away, and the patient is asked to focus somewhere, anywhere else (this action is called an anti-saccade, a saccade being the rapid, small, often involuntary movements of the eyes when taking something in visually, and the same thing as REM). people on ket flunk this score totally, which, maybe, suggests that the ket user is experiencing a similair kind of activity in the brain as the schizophrenic patient.
btw, schizophrenia is, in one way, the absence of a particular kind of inhibition, and researchers think that the ketamine user's failure at this test is due to a failure of inhibition, a failure to conciously control the movement of the eye (which is an essential part of visual perception)
to be fair, the ket user does better in other eye tests than the schizophrenic, but, hmmmm.
sweet dreams ;P (as if I'm worried about someone who likes strong acid)