Hallucination

Question: What is the difference between seeing a ghost and seeing a hallucination? I was wondering what the difference is between seeing a ghost and a hallucination. I've seen this man a lot since april and I was told it was a hallucination but now I'm in a psychiatric ward and I barely see him but when I am released for the weekend he's there, a lot like he was before. This means that the hospital probably isn't helping so I'm starting to think he's a ghost. How do I tell the difference between the two?

Answer: well if it was a ghost i spose other people could see him, the medical profession is never gonna tel u its a ghost, talk to someone who actually knows about the paranormal maybe they would have someway of knowing if ur haunted.

Question: What is the difference between a dream, or hallucination, and a vision from God? What is the difference between a dream, or hallucination, and a vision from God?

Answer: A dream is a dream, something you see as happening while asleep. Like a movie in your head during sleep. God sometimes communicates with people in dreams, but not often in my experience. A hallucination is seeing something that seems real, seems to be there, but is not. A vision from God is just that a vision of some sort that God gives you. God gives visions in dreams, but they are rare. God gives visions to people who are awake also. The Apostle John saw several when he wrote Revelation in the Bible. These are rare to. To say that visions from God are the same as hallucinations is not correct, for then they would merely be hallucinations a person THINKS are visions from God; they would not be actual visions from God. If something is a vision from God, it IS a vision from God. Otherwise that title "vision from God" doesn't apply accurately.

Question: What in your opinion is the source for nostalgic hallucination? Some people have a view that the past was somehow better. Specially, when all real data indicates the opposite! What is up with such mass hallucination? Why can't people realize that nostalgia is a scape from reality in the longing for some form of idealized past period? In the renaissance people were still being tortured and enslaved. In ancient Greece people were starving, being enslaved, suffering through war and awful diseases...etc! OK there are rare exception, but that is it...!

Answer: Some people feel it was better because they were younger I suppose. We live in a society that has no respect for elders. (But its funny when you think about what generation started it, they've gotten old haha)

Question: what parts of the brain responsible for hallucination? I am doing a school project and i kneed to know what parts of the brain are responsible for hallucination, any other info about hallutionation too. THANKZ

Answer: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro00/web2/Takahashi.html

Question: Is thinking that something real is a hallucination a delusion? Even if one knows that believing that said real thing is a hallucination is crazy? what's the difference between depersonalization and dissociation then?

Answer: not believing something is real is called derealization (or depending on the exact situation, depersonalization). this can happen in many situations - to both individuals with and without a mental illness. a delusion is a belief not based in reality. dissociation is a full or partial disruption in a person's thinking process - much like depersonalization (a feeling that one is detached from everything around them). derealization is feeling that things around you are not real. as if you were in a dream.

Question: How can the word hallucination be defined if science doesn't know what it is? Science, psychiatrists and neurologists can't explain the processes that may cause hallucinations. They can't physically test you to prove your hallucinating. On the other hand science, psychiatrists and neurologists know that the nature of consciousness is not understood and one of the purposes of science is to discover things not yet known. To define a hallucination as seeing something that is not there is therefore inaccurate, science doesn't know if what people see in apparent hallucinations isn't there and can't prove by examining your body that you are hallucinating. It's easty to say that testing for hallucinations is quite simple (Bruce) and then not give an answer. As a qualified nurse I worked with demented elderly patients and did a psychiatric secondment as a student. There is no test to proove someone is hallucinating and no text book explanation as to the physiological nature of hallucinations. I did read around various psychiatric conditions during my training and had tutorials and never came accross any explanation other than the vague it's something to do with brain chemistry, but no objective, unbiased, medical, scientific tests exist to proove a person is hallucinating when they see something that others are not seeing.

Answer: The definition of a hallucination, "seeing something that is not there" is absolutely correct. What is not known is the cause. You also said, "the nature of consciousness is not understood". That's correct, but it can be defined.

Question: how can i get rid of constant hallucination? i'm clean now but i have to admit i had a pretty bad addiction before. i have a visual hallucination problem which occurs almost everyday: i see a shadow passes right in front of me and scares me just like when a ball almost hits my face. i've had this for a year now and it's neva going away. i can live a normal life but it just annoys me and people find it very strange when i do the dodging move because of it.

Answer: See a doc. The doc can refer you to someone who can prescribe a medicine that can help. Sometimes you may need to try a few different medications untill you find one that helps. Good luck with it :O)

Question: Is it possible to have a subconscious hallucination? I'm aware that we all have a subconscious mind that most of us are unable to even interact with. The conscious mind we are aware of and use everyday to live. Though some things are required to pulse through the subconscious mind and there it may lay or leave. Basically my question is: is there a way to induce a subconscious hallucination or even a door way of some sort leading into the subconscious mind to use? Please exclude any religious or philosophical beliefs because they will just be ignored.

Answer: ..Possible or impossible is kind of irrelevant, because even if it was possible and these hallucinations are a daily occurrence.. how would you ever know? They're ..subconscious. Dreaming or the usage of.. hard drugs is arguably the only exercise that can indulge and provoke these "subconscious hallucinations", if we're disregarding the religious/philosophical concepts.

Question: Have you ever experienced hypnopompic hallucination? Waking up to find "spiders" coming down from the ceiling? Hi People Just wondering how many of you have experienced hypnopompic hallucination? I just looked it up on the internet, as I used to get them - I would suddenly wake up and think that I could see spiders running across the ceiling/walls, or coming down from the ceiling onto me! It was so scary because I was actually awake but it was a hallucination! I would be interested to know if people had any similar experiences?

Answer: yes - this used to happen to me all the time. i used to "see" snakes on the walls and in the bed, the same with spiders and other bugs, and more recently, i have started to see a wolf or a dog in the room. i have even "seen" a person too. it is very very scary! i started accupuncture for something else entirely and found another positive "side effect" of this was a drop in my nightmares/night terrors/hallucinations. im glad im not the only one who goes through this!! edit : thank you so much for this post!! i never knew there was a proper name for this - and i am now fascinated!! i thought it was just me having weird realistic scary dreams!! but this is definitely what i have been experiencing!!

Question: How do I have a realistic dream/hallucination? I was wondering how to make myself produce a hallucination without using drugs or by doing different strategies. I also want to know how to have a realistic dream?

Answer: I think what you talking about is lucid dreams. Lucid dreams are almost real i.e. you are dreaming but you are aware that you are dreaming and can almost control your dream. One way to induce it is write all your dreams, once this becomes a habit you'll start remembering your dreams automatically and remembering your dreams brings greater awareness which can induce lucid dreaming.

Question: Hallucination? Is seeing things is the corner of your eye, (or not in your direct vision) a Hallucination. This happens very often, many times a day. It makes me move to look, as i don't know what is there, and it is moving. Then there is nothing.

Answer: Hallucination is seeing things without existance before your eye ratina. Ratina forms image on it if there is some object before your eyes. In Hallucination there is no object, but the picture is framed in the mind and you see this image through their transmission to eye sensory nerves. I think it is now clear.

Question: what is a disease that causes hallucination and amnesia? what is a disease that causes hallucination and amnesia like as one of the symtoms but this disease cant change the way you look the only to symptoms are hallucination and amnesia what is the disease called???? And it is not sexually transmitted and it cannot kill you And its not serious but it does affect you just bit. And Schizophrenia was a good one but does it affect you in your daily life alot?

Answer: um... schizophrenia? insanity?

Question: What happened on House last nite, was that a hallucination? I am so confused about the end. Did he sleep with Cuddy or was that just a hallucination? Is it because he still can't sleep?

Answer: It actually isn't a new drug, vicodin bottles say codone on them. just a little extra fact. The lipstick in the morning is fake, and the entire episode. Whenever you saw him take the lipstick out he was actually popping Vicodin. The sex, all part of a hallucination from the drug. The whole detox scene is also part of the hallucination. Essentially the whole end of the last episode wasn't really happening. after he made the comment about Cuddy's child she walked out, he didn't stop her. She thought he was talking about that while he was thinking he slept with her. This is where all of the confusion comes from. I noticed that the cameras were constantly shaky throughout the episode, all done with handheld instead of on a tripod... steadycam... this is probably trying to show that House was mentally unstable.

Question: how do you know you are having an internal hallucination? when you hear things, but it's internal rather than external. how can you know that it's a hallucination and not just "crazy thinking"? there are two types of auditory hallucinations: internal and external. external you hear like any other voice, but internal you hear inside your head. it's different to your own thoughts, but i want to know how.

Answer: 1> see a doctor 2> DO NOT take any illegal or non-prescribed substances of any kind this kind of thinking sometimes comes from a mind "messed up" by drugs, OR some other medical condition that mimics those same symptoms.

Question: What are some symptoms of the type of schizophrenia where hallucination is not present? I think of schizophrenia as a disease where someone hears voices like a voice telling them to kill somebody or other types of auditory sounds, but have found out that one can be schizophrenic without hallucinations. So what would other symptoms entail?

Answer: While many forms of schizophrenia have hallucinations as a symptom, they are not always present in people who suffer from the disease. This symptom list comes from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV): 1. Characteristic symptoms: Two or more of the following, each present for much of the time during a one-month period (or less, if symptoms remitted with treatment). * Delusions * Hallucinations * Disorganized speech, which is a manifestation of formal thought disorder * Grossly disorganized behavior (e.g. dressing inappropriately, crying frequently) or catatonic behavior * Negative symptoms—affective flattening (lack or decline in emotional response), alogia (lack or decline in speech), or avolition (lack or decline in motivation) If the delusions are judged to be bizarre, or hallucinations consist of hearing one voice participating in a running commentary of the patient's actions or of hearing two or more voices conversing with each other, only that symptom is required above. The speech disorganization criterion is only met if it is severe enough to substantially impair communication. 2. Social/occupational dysfunction: For a significant portion of the time since the onset of the disturbance, one or more major areas of functioning such as work, interpersonal relations, or self-care, are markedly below the level achieved prior to the onset. 3. Duration: Continuous signs of the disturbance persist for at least six months. This six-month period must include at least one month of symptoms (or less, if symptoms remitted with treatment). For more information and resources to get help, follow the links below.

Question: Is the SALVIA that causes hallucination the same type that is available at local gardening centers? OH...BTW...I'm not planning any parties...but I do have a teenager...so I'm paying attention to what's new in this area.

Answer: No. The halucinogenic salvia is 'divinorum' and the kinds that you buy at garden centers are 'sylvestris' and 'nemarosa.'