what is a bodily illusion?

what is a bodily illusion?

When I am trying to sleep I often feel like my hands and arms are puffed up and numb. Is that what it means or is it visual?

Also could you give me an example of stereotyped speech?

mikey1988 wrote:what is a bodily illusion?
When I am trying to sleep I often feel like my hands and arms are puffed up and numb. Is that what it means or is it visual?

That would be an example of bodily illusion, but such things are normal (and even expected) when you fall asleep. A bodily illusion is often tactile, like for example having the feeling that you are lacking an arm, or feeling like you don't really have a body, or feeling that you do not really control a certain part of your body, or that your body is not really yours, etc.

mikey1988 wrote:Also could you give me an example of stereotyped speech?

It's a speech that is oversimplified or uses stereotypes. Schizotypals are likely to "believe" very easily and to take such things as knowledge as they have little capacity for doubt... It's hard to explain... It's that by the way they speak you can see that they have an oversimplified view of the world. For example: people that wear black shirts are bums and there is no way around that; all men are violent and all women are emotionally manipulative; governments are always malevolent; every single person fits in a category such as good/bad, strong/weak, etc, especially if those categories don't allow middle grounds.

Ok, thank you.

mikey1988 wrote:what is a bodily illusion?

When I am trying to sleep I often feel like my hands and arms are puffed up and numb. Is that what it means or is it visual?

Also could you give me an example of stereotyped speech?

I used to get that. I also would look at something and it would flash big and small. A very odd thing that always happened when I was trying to sleep. It has stopped now. It started when I was 12 when I had the flu.

Some call it the Alice In Wonderland Syndrome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_W ... d_syndrome

I don't get much more bodily illusions than that. Although I do get the feeling that my tongue is not in my power.

Also could you give me an example of stereotyped speech?

I thought that was when people use Star Trek catchphrases all the time. Or speak too quietly. Or too fast. Or Who make a joke of everything.