I think he has made elaborate preparations to establish grounds for an insanity defense well before he was ready to commit his crime. He made sure he had all the pieces in place before he embarked on his murderous escapade.
For months before, he was mentally collected enough to plan and carry out his mass murder.
And once he was done he made sure he wasn’t going to get shot by the police by taking a non-threatening position before police arrived at the scene of the crime.
He’s faking it!
I believe he is play acting when he acts comotose and unattentive. It is all part of his plan to carry out the murders and escape the ultimate punishment himself.
Being a paranoid schizophrenic, hearing voices in your head, etc. doesn’t mean you are incapable of planning.
People want to believe it’s sane, then drooling and screaming in a straitjacket with nothing in-between, but it’s not true.
I read a schizophrenic site talking about James Holmes.
Two interesting things.
One schizo said he was highly susceptible to subliminal programming.
Another poster said that the Unabomber was a classic untreated Schizo.
The Unabomber was experimented on by a Harvard Professor that had been working for the OSS. It happened during the MK Ultra Years.
You can act out a delusion but be partly aware that it is a delusion - and continue to act it out because you want it to be the truth.
The life of a Schizo.