How real are the hallucinations?

Kagura wrote: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.