um good question. i believe .[spoiler]its before he kills josh by accident[spoiler]
and sorry floppy lobster.[/spoiler]

AHH I dont wanna seem like an ass but plz use your spoiler tag thingy even when answering ive beaten it but i dont want someone who hasnt too come in and be like welll shit

What flashback? The one where Adam is cutting the deer? This was a memory of Alex's childhood. So that means:
[spoiler]Before he killed Joshua.[/spoiler]

to understand if tis before or after,
[spoiler]you notice that alex wakes up in a hospital. after josh died, im sure alex got sent away from home. therefore he never witness his father killing anything, unless it was prior to josjh's death[/spoiler]

Well in that case helldescent, I don't think Alex would be thinking it's a schism he's cutting up seeing as the monsters and craziness didn't happen until the one event happened that put SH:H in motion. In the other world he sees a schism yeah but it was probably a deer back in the flashback or some other animal.

im only guessing he seems a schism bcuz he encounters them throughout the game before he returns home,

^Wrong. The first encounter with the Schism's are in the Police Station. Alex goes to his house way before that part.

yeah your house is literally the firt ten minutes of the game after the intro nightmare

wrong.
alex visits mother in beginning.
( skipping ahead a lil)
we encounter the first schism in the police station. so alex sees this monster before he returns back home to when the order kidnaps his mother. this is the part where he actually enters the hunting room and sees a schism on the butcher block.
thus, the image of the schism, is from alex's earlier encounter with them

ummm no im not you visit your mother who is at the house! yes its also were you get the blue steel shotgun

Why would it even conceivably be a schism in the first place?????

I have no idea

what

why

I don't even. Why are we having this discussion?

I think helldescent finds pleasure on messing with people's minds.

Man, really! *holds head to keep from falling over*

You people and your antics, I swear.

no. im just trying to figure it out. sorry.

Dinner!