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by Lizita » Wed Nov 21, 2012 7:33 pm
I have a question about visual hallucinations that I was hoping that someone with experience can answer. I'm asking simply out of curiosity and an attempt to understand psychosis and schizophrenia.
I was wondering if it's possible for another person to touch and interact with another person's hallucinations? For example, if you are hallucinating a ball could I pick that ball up and you would see me holding that ball? Would your mind, which is creating the hallucination, adjust what the hallucination is doing based on what I'm doing, like if I go to pick up the ball your mind has created would you see that ball in my hands just because I make a motion to pick up the, to me, invisible ball or would the ball just do whatever your mind decides?
I'm asking because I recently read about a man who says that he can interact with his daughter's hallucinations and I found that odd. The daughter saw personified numbers and one of those numbers got injured so the dad sits down on the ground and starts to examine the number and perform pretend surgery on it and I'm wondering if that's really possible. Would the daughter really see her father examining and performing surgery on this number? Does anybody know how this works? I'd love to get some insight on if this would be possible from someone who knows.
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by Lizita » Fri Nov 23, 2012 10:04 pm
Doesn't anyone have any knowledge or opinions about this?
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by Spilliam Wooner » Sat Nov 24, 2012 12:26 am
Well, I don't know if I have Schizophrenia, but I do have visual disturbances and perceptual distortions.
Normally, I am not able to interact with them, because they are only present for a split second and are gone as soon as I see them, or they are too far away or abstract.
For example, I sometimes see shadow people/animals for an instant before they disappear, or I see a driver in another morph into a mannequin, or I see a picture of a flask in a book whose water level seems to be rising, but I can never influence them.
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by randomandrea » Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:44 pm
I have schizophrenia and I don't interact with my visual hallucinations. Neither has anyone else. But the mind is very powerful, so I believe it could happen. I've heard of real people being incorporated into hallucinations before. I'm not sure of the extent to which it happens, but I know it happens. It's essentially like being able to talk to your hallucinations. My voices hear other people talking--they're aware of what's being said (oddly enough, even when I'm not aware). The voices interact with me and with other people. It's just that the other people can't see who I'm talking to. The other people can't hear or interact with my voices. But I suppose if I told them what the voices were saying to them then they could interact with them. I'm not sure if that makes sense. I'm just pointing out that auditory hallucinations can be interacted with, so it stands to reason that visual ones can be too.
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by OrdinaryDarkness » Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:34 am
Lizita wrote:I was wondering if it's possible for another person to touch and interact with another person's hallucinations?
I don't think it's impossible, but probably not too common. Things I've seen that no one else can have been aware of the other people around me, I saw one physically threatening someone who couldn't see him. I've never seen a person interact back with them.
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by SchizLife » Wed Dec 12, 2012 1:36 pm
While it's not impossible, that would be a very persistent and consistent hallucination. In my experience it simply doesn't work that way.
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