How real are the hallucinations?

I have seen heard and felt things that reasoning says that were not real. I once got into a strangers car Because the car seemed to familiar and the voice to but once sat in the car I realized he was no one I knew. I ended up in a very upseting situation because he wanted something more than giving a ride. so you can end up with very realistic hallucination the blened well. or you can end up with halucinations wich are taken as real but very much in contrasted to what is normally real. talking shadows And voices that don't have bodies.
Feather

Yes, your hallucinations can seem very real.

All my hallucinations are real. I can't tell the difference even on meds. Its so confusing its hasrd to handle and I often look like total moran talking to my hallucinations. I get the same hallucination a lot. Its me having a schizo freind my age and stuff. It goes away and then it just comes back.


I have a reality list that helps me figure out whats real or not. If its on my list then its real, if not then its proably a hallucination.

Wow, I had a very similar problem in class last year when mine was pretty bad, some people were talking and it started sounding like they said my name, my full name with every sentance.

Also, on many nights I would hear voices of many many people yelling at me, all seemed to reflect back to a past experience, yelling "John John John" similtaniously, which used to freak me out.

I still have little problems with this, last night I slept for the first time in somthing like a day and a half or so because I had a load of homework, going to sleep last night, I breifly heard myself yelling "###$" really loud, it seemed like a reflection of a memory yelling it two weeks ago, however I think that was just more me drifting into a dreamlike state, it made me jump however.

My 21 yo son recently got a job...which is great! But it has opened up a small window of doubt for him. Before getting the job he knew which people were real and which ones were not. He chooses not to interact with the ones who are hallucinatory.

Now that he has a job he has asked me...."how do I tell if the people I meet at the job are real?" No one at his place of work knows he has schizophrenia except his job coach. Any ideas on how to tell if people on the job are real???

Sweetngentle

My hallucinations are very real. I had several very embarassing moments at school where I would be talking to people in the halls between class that weren't there.

It's hard for me to discern what is real and what is not sometimes. There are the obvious things that I know aren't real...IE: a dead body in the hall, arrows shooting through people's heads, moving puddles. My hallucinations of people are very very real. It is very hard for me to figure out if they are real or not. Many a time where I would be driving and would swerve to avoid hitting a person only to look back and see that they weren't there.

When I entered the working world this did become a problem. My first job was really hard because I worked at an ice cream store and there was no way for me to touch the person across the counter. On busy days it took a lot for me to figure out what was going on. Usually I could figure out if they were real or not by what they said. (Most people don't reply with "They are real, and they are there. Don't be misguided, all of them are evil." When you ask what flavor of ice cream they want.) At my other jobs I would "accidentally" bump into people. Or "accidentally" dropped a pen or something when I went to talk to a customer. If the person wasn't looking at me I would go to walk past and brush up against them. If I felt them, they were real, if they disappeared or I didn't feel anything they were hallucinations. With the dropping of the pen...obviously a fake person cannot pick up a pen (or would just flat out refuse to).

Really, it's just finding patterns with the hallucinations. My people hallucinations all have something in common. They are almost always male, and they are almost always wearing some type of hooded sweatshirt. So, if I see something that fits the bill, they get the feel or drop the pen test. Most of the time they have the same voice too, but recently that has changed.

I wish your son the best of luck in the work force sweetngentle. It's quite a jungle out there.

yes...hallucinations are very real. Thats why hallucinations are concidered a form of psychosis. Psychosis means that a person has trouble telling what is real and what isnt.

When i hear voices, they are usually internal (like a speaker has been implanted inside my ear) so even though they are loud and i have no control over them, i cant tell they arent actually someone talking in the real world. I've had external hallucinations on some occasions, and they seemed very real. Like there was really someone else in the room with me.

Lately, i have had more problems with the visual hallucinations. I see all kinds of shadows and bugs crawling on the walls and flashes of lights. I have trouble telling if i was 'hallucinating' or if it was real.

And i also see things move a lot, so when something actually moves, i have to stop and figure out if it realy did move.

-Becka

That sounds a lot like things I experienced...Actually I went through something like that on the London Underground as well...lol. People are nutters there so you can't tell whats real and whats not.
I really like your quote by the way...'I seem to exist in an immediate future that never quite arrives yet has always been with me.'..Where's it from?

Thu Feb 10th was when this thread was started

i think repyling now wont make any difference