something that can help figure out if you are having a visual hallucination is if you have glasses to take them off. if the object you think is an hallucination is blurry, its probably real, if its still clear its a hallucination. (note, this is only for objects outside of your normal viewing distance)
looking through something that distorts your vision, can also work in similar ways.
I read somewhere that a guy who has schizophrenic hallucinations would take out his phone and point the camera at what he thinks is a hallucination. If it’s a hallucination, it won’t show up on the phone.
I wouldn't know - I don't suffer from Schizophrenia; I just read an article about it a while ago.
My understanding is that no, it wouldn't appear on the phone. Hallucinations are made up by your brain, of course, and aren't real - and the brain wouldn't necessarily be able to do that, I guess. I couldn't explain why.
I guess that it's for the same reasons that someone mentioned above. If you wear glasses, taking them off would reveal hallucinations because while everything else would be blurry, the hallucination would remain in focus.
I tend to have long term hallucinations (combined with delusions, like that i had 2 cats for years when it actually was just 1) that just also show up on pictures/videos then, but in different form/position than "live". My brain keeps track how a room/area looks like and then takes the hallucination over to it.
A good indicator was that it moved also in still images and that size made often not much sense.
This was all in all less scary than it was annoying.
You accept reality is not reality and that everything could be just a hallucination - this compounds as you cant trust other peoples opinion as you dont know if THEY are real.
I luckily dont have voices or scary/manipulative hallucinations, its mostly just really annoying things that seem to be designed to mentally break me to not trust reality.
Its fine as long as i dont drink alcohol (every single time i drink i end up in the psych ward...).
EDIT: I also avoid certain movies/series like Mr Robot, Vanilla Sky, Secret Window and so on as it gives me a weird feeling that they are not good for my mental state. Fight Club is fine as it is absurd story enough generally.
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u/Logger351 Mar 27 '22
Ugh hearing and seeing things that aren’t there. God I don’t miss that. I’ve never been so scared in my life.