the beautiful minds

you know,i can help comparing the characters in Heroes with the psychiatric patients. they have most of the signs (especially peter petrelli ;p ) - grandiose ideas ( or should i say grandiose delusions?) such as ' i know im special, that i'm meant for something big, important' or hiro nakamura's concrete believe that he was a real Hero. those psychotic patients presented with symptoms exactly like these characters have. and im not exaggerating. Some even thought they are the latest prophet chosen by God or worse, they think they are God. big trouble to handle there huhu.
if heroes wasnt a fiction, i bet they are no different from those mentally ill people. they believe they can do things that are very bizarre to normal and competent thinking. they 'hear', they 'see' and they 'do' things that are unreal to us. and delusional thoughts like they are some sort of CIA agents are pretty common too.well, it's crazy isn't it. and oh, Prof Suresh in Heroes actually suggested that cockroach is God. who can be crazier than that.

during my umrah trip to mekah 5 years ago, i encountered a lady who claimed to have seen and been followed by a genie, who kept conversing with her, asked her to do things, even proposing to her.i believed her then but now i guess i don't perceive it that way anymore. I'm not saying she's lying. but I'm more prone to believe (fairly strongly) that she was hallucinating. it's really a pity to be in her shoes. because the voices and visuals seemed very real to them.

one more thing that has changed, is my perception towards Jim Carey: i now believe that he truly is a manic or a hypomanic. no one in the 'right mind' can talk as fast and act as bizarre as he does. but come to think of it, many writers, lyricists, poets, artists ARE manics. that's where their outstanding and special talents originate actually. hmmm...
psychiatry is fascinating..