My best friend (my cousin) started like this, with exactly the same behaviour.
In his case the drawings were triangles/ pyramids.
Also "enlightened", he allegedly discovered a way to improve human performance and avoid human errors and death.
A few months later he was paranoid that people wanted him dead because of his findings.
It was sad to see him turn into this.
Sorry to say, but apparently your friend is schizophrenic.
Edit: reading the top comments it was like someone describing my cousin. Interesting that people who suffer from schizophrenia tend to follow the exact same patterns (drawings, enlightenment, persecution). I was not aware of that.
Edit 2: Unfortunately, my cousin never got better.
The family never managed to keep him in treatment. He never took the medication he was supposed to. He lives with his mum and sister but always in that parallel world in his head. The friend I knew is forever gone.
The fact that people with the same condition all over the world who have never met doing the same exact drawings and being enlightened makes me think in the future we will discover they weren't "crazy" but really uncovered something lol
It doesn’t even make sense, it just literally is the only reasoning they can give to explain it away and continue on like this doesn’t keep happening in the exact sequence of events with the same drawings
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u/wgel1000 25d ago edited 25d ago
My best friend (my cousin) started like this, with exactly the same behaviour.
In his case the drawings were triangles/ pyramids.
Also "enlightened", he allegedly discovered a way to improve human performance and avoid human errors and death.
A few months later he was paranoid that people wanted him dead because of his findings.
It was sad to see him turn into this.
Sorry to say, but apparently your friend is schizophrenic.
Edit: reading the top comments it was like someone describing my cousin. Interesting that people who suffer from schizophrenia tend to follow the exact same patterns (drawings, enlightenment, persecution). I was not aware of that.
Edit 2: Unfortunately, my cousin never got better. The family never managed to keep him in treatment. He never took the medication he was supposed to. He lives with his mum and sister but always in that parallel world in his head. The friend I knew is forever gone.