Hallucinations?

What causes hallucinations?

She said, Did he have them himself?

Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you.

His grandfather had these hallucinations.

She's out of her mind. Just an imaginative child.

Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you.

She wasn't on any medications which could produce hallucinations.

Another patient of mine had a different sort of hallucination.

You know, if one had time, one could trace the cause of the hallucination.

Something like 10 percent, as I said, of visually impaired people get these.

Faces, and sometimes deformed faces, are the single commonest thing in these hallucinations.

I said, There is a special form of visual hallucination which may go with deteriorating vision or blindness.

With another patient of mine, who, also had some vision, the vision she had could be disturbing.

There must be hundreds of thousands of blind people who have these hallucinations, but are too scared to mention them.

Some psychiatrists had reported that excessive use could lead to a psychotic state, including hallucinations, delusions, and thought disturbance.

In particular, the notion is that if you see things or hear things, you're going mad, but the psychotic hallucinations are quite different.

In particular, the notion is that if you see things or hear things, you're going mad, but the psychotic hallucinations are quite different.

Fascinatingly, in the last few years, it's been possible to do functional brain imagery, to do fMRI on people as they are hallucinating.

I wonder whether everyone sees things like this, and whether things like cave art or ornamental art may have been derived from them a bit.

There is an area in the anterior part of this gyrus where teeth and eyes are represented, and that part of the gyrus is activated when people get the deformed hallucinations.

And when I see all these hexagons and complex things, which I also have, in visual migraine, I wonder whether everyone sees things like this, and whether things like cave art or ornamental art may have been derived from them a bit.

Having listened for 20 years to people unfortunate enough to be labeled schizophrenic, considered to be the most extreme form of mental illness, and having subsequently researched the causes of hallucinations and delusions for ten years, I believe that the public understands madness better than we experts.

Having listened for 20 years to people unfortunate enough to be labeled schizophrenic, considered to be the most extreme form of mental illness, and having subsequently researched the causes of hallucinations and delusions for ten years, I believe that the public understands madness better than we experts.