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TIL about the artist August Natterer, who suffered from Schizophrenia, On 1 April 1907, he had a hallucination of the Last Judgment, in which he saw "10,000 images [flash by] in half an hour." He then spent his life creating art from the images he saw, under the pseudonym 'Neter'.

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