This may sound stupid but has anyone taking a photo of a hallucination, and then when you look at the photograph can you still see the hallucination?
What does everyone think? Is this possible? Or not?
I mean it is your eyes that see the hallucination, in the same way that it is your eyes which see the photo - hence the logic.
Obviously it is all madness, but that is not the point.
Cameras are often the victims of mental illness which makes their terrible non-compliance with medication so tragic.
Yeah, it’s possible to photograph a hallucination. I’ve done it many times, and yes, the hallucination looks the same a few months after and even on meds.
Problem is, it’s not possible to keep the photos no matter how hard you try to protect them. Guess it makes some folks angry when you expose the little man behind the curtain.
Honestly I think I wrote way too much information.
I will instead change it to this boring text just because the system will no doubt make me do so.
However here is even more pointless text just to make sure it does.
Peace brother, continue forward.
I think you’d make a fortune if you could. Photos reveal what is actually there not what your psychosis has you thinking is there.
Perhaps. What is a photo? What does it actually record? Is reality inbuilt into the object, or into the mind of the eye that perceives. Anyway it is clearly a complex duality.
I am just asking out of interest, but this could be used in many ways…
How would you like your friends and family to see a photo or video - which SHOWS them EXACTLY what you see and hear? Would that not be useful? Indeed essential!
The point is we are just doing analytical work on this idea; it does not make it real or true or even possible.
We are just doing ‘high level thinking’. Nothing more, Nothing less.
Thanks for your replies.
This reminds me of when some old friends of mine tried taking pictures of their acid trip…
There was a hilarious one of them all standing on a hill saluting the mailman but no, no kaleidoscope skies or dancing shadows in those pictures…
You can certainly try taking a photo of a visual hallucination. Chances are that the outcome that you are seeking will not be there. A hallucination stems from our sick minds - you cannot photograph a symptom just like that, nothing will appear except for background scenery like furniture, other people or whatever else the camera captures (not the hallucination) If you are interested in photography, there is nothing wrong with that. Take pictures of real people and things, you just might enjoy taking up some photography, even if it is with a cell phone - Reality based photography - cant beat it
Honestly I think I wrote way too much information.
I will instead change it to this boring text just because the system will no doubt make me do so.
However here is even more pointless text just to make sure it does.
Peace brother, continue forward.
You guys REALLY think you can take a photo of a hallucination? You can’t. No one ever has, it’s just common sense. A camera does not see what’s into your mind. A camera is a machine, separate from your brain.
Calm down everyone 
Yes the camera takes a picture of what is really there. If you are taking a picture of something you see, and it shows up on the photograph, I 'd be inclined to call it real rather than a hallucination.
I took a picture holding a night vision monocle up to the camera lens, looking into a closet mirror (at an angle) because I saw the face of a horned devil looking being staring back at me with 4 others faces peeking over it’s shoulder.
My husband saw it too, and when I printed the picture, the faces looked exactly the same.
This was 2 years ago, and the picture hasn’t changed.
She saw the hallucinations even in the pictures, but no one else physically saw them in the picture, or in person. That makes sense because her mind produced the hallucinations still, but reality didn’t change.
Think of a red apple in the dark, just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t there, or is now a green apple if you say it is.
LOL, they are also unreceptive to therapy…cameras are TOTALLY treatment resistant… In fact they are so treatment resistant that most psychiatrists do not even allow them in their offices!
As for the OP…if it’s in a photo it isn’t a hallucination. I’ve posted a bunch of times here about this - orbs, UFOs, a wood gnome, unexplained faerie lights.
I had one UFO photo and the wood gnome analyzed by a professional who stated both were real…there really was something there that is unexplained by natural means…
When he analyzed the UFO that appeared just blue and white in the original photo, he used some advanced program that could spot things outside the visual range and found a bunch of colors indicating heat and light signatures from the craft.
One of my hallucinations was a bus driver with faerie ears, it looked absolutely physical and real, i knew it wasn’t at the time but i also knew it had real causes.
When i saw this though it’s possible to take a picture of sorts of my mind and then see what im seeing.
And if this experience is in my memory then it’s also possible to take a picture of it from that.
I can remember them talking about shapeshifting a bit before seeing the faerie ears, they said my brother had changed shapes and was the guy at the bus station, this was no accident i was thinking this.
I am not a photographer, but I could draw/paint a hallucination.
I am not sure about photographing hallucinations which is why I jumped on this topic. I have tons of pictures from when I first started seeing things. The images are still there and and my family and friends can still see them in my photos. I need feedback on this for real because when I was younger I used to see spirits. I started photographing things just to see if I was tripping.
Holy sheets batman… 4 years layter…french accent…
You can take a photo and see the hallucination in the camera, but you will be the one who sees it, because its a hallucination
Can you post these photos?