“Can you wake up from a nightmare, if you are not asleep?” Jonas Strandgaard, 36 y/o The 19 year old Jonas is admitted to the closed phsyciatric wing. A seven month long phsycosisbecomes his journey into the mental illness paranoid skizophrenia. Through the years Jonas has had several phsycoses. He has been haunted by Death, and been in another dimension. At one point he momentarily lost the ability to speak. It takes a huge amount of medication to pull him back to reality again. The medicine has a numbing effect on him and it feels like he is running through heavy waters. Today he is better at seperating what is real and what is not. If he is unsure, he uses his phone to check reality. If the phone doesn’t see it, it’s properbly just in his head. Even though the phsycoses are awful to go through, he is grateful because he learns something new about himself every time. In the nature Jonas finds the calm he needs to deal with his illness. To remind himself of the lessons learned, he has them tattooed on his body.