alex 302'd date: possible spoilers here!
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- KiramidHead
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He keeps the health items you pick up in the hospital dream too, though his health is refilled. You gotta remember the nature of Silent Hill as well, remember even in the first game how many times Harry would wake up somewhere completely different (usually on the hospital bed by Lisa), even though he had made progress and kept items?
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It's supposed to be ambiguous really, like a lot of the SH games. They often wake up out of stuff which is or isn't really happening, and it's supposed to be quite difficult to get a grasp of what was real or what else. Not necessarily dreams in the later cases, but rather the character's real-world body 'wakes up' somewhere else etc. Silent Hill isn't supposed to make sense really
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It boils down to Alex's psychological profile. Since we're playing as Alex, and he's a catatonic schizophrenic, it makes sense that there are chunks of story missing or that don't make sense. We don't know what's really happening, what's a dream, or what isn't happening at all and is just in Alex's head. It's like reading a book written by an unreliable narrator. Nothing is spelled out for you--and if it is, often it will be a red herring there to fool you.
The notes left around the hospital level are (supposedly) about Alex. They mention a patient who goes into a non-responsive state, a symptom of catatonic schizophrenia. He also experiences delusions and hallucinations, symptoms of schizophrenia. So, it's implied that he is a catatonic schizophrenic.helldescent wrote:how do we know he's a catatonic schizophrenic? I mean his mother was kinda catatonic, but I would label him more normal, but with that fact he denied/repressed josh's death.
And he would have gone through episodes of catatonia, much like a schizophrenic may go through episodes of schizophrenia. There are moments of normalcy and clarity coupled with moments of psychosis or, in Alex's case, non-responsiveness.
This could explain the gaps in the storyline, granted he's still experiencing the catatonia, which I doubt.
EDIT: And he really didn't just "repress" the memory of Josh's death. He replaced it with an entirely fictional storyline... one which he believed to be real. Repression is when you just black out certain events. Alex went batshit crazy.
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actually that pushes quite a bit into light and gives more meaning to the schism. If he is catatonic schizophrenic that would show to others though.
i don't know if you ever known someone with even minor schizophrenia but you can point out that theres something wrong on sight so why would ellie trust him so?
i don't know if you ever known someone with even minor schizophrenia but you can point out that theres something wrong on sight so why would ellie trust him so?
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OH you can't help that we're ALL mad here...
OH you can't help that we're ALL mad here...
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sorry Aura but everyone is obviously messed up. look closely at people on the street: step count, breath timing, posture, expression, eye movement you'll notice things from even the most sane of people... now those of us who have mental illness (depression, schizophrenia, mania, OCD, ect.) are easier to spot.
To be so deep into your head that you physically experience it would be the equivalent of a lighthouse
To be so deep into your head that you physically experience it would be the equivalent of a lighthouse
"But i don't want to go among mad people!"
OH you can't help that we're ALL mad here...
OH you can't help that we're ALL mad here...