I was at a baseball game yesterday. I’m pretty sure I either hallucinated people or read too much into somebody’s words. She essentially threatened me that if I protest again I’ll die and said some other things pertaining to me. The thing that makes me doubt that I was hallucinating is that she knew like six other people in the smoking area. Then again how would she know that many random people.
I always say I never hear voices or hallucinate. I’m now starting to doubt myself. When I first got ill I think I heard voices telling me why I was getting ill. It was at the hospital Er and two men were speaking outside my room. I now think it was all hearing voices.
My question is: do you know you’re hallucinating people when you are? Is it possible to hallucinate a conversation between people? What are your thoughts on my experience?
It’s sometimes impossible for us sz’s/sza’s to tell when we are delusional or hallucinating. Some people, like myself, with more insight, can tell sometimes, and other times, cannot.
Honestly, that sounds exactly like something an aggressive baseball fan would say at a game. But, like with hallucinations, the best strategy for dealing with an angry fan is to ignore and not engage.
I thought all my hallucinations were real at the time, no matter how strange they were. I still halfway think one of my hallucinations wasn’t an hallucination at all. I sometimes think someone had a gun where they can shoot sound at a single hearer, but that’s stranger than thinking the hallucination was real.
My hallucinations never take the form of 100% real talking people that are indistinguishable from regular people. They are usually mind - images that are in my “mind’s eye.” It’s very easy to tell the difference.
When it’s quiet and I hear a sound at night, though, it can be a hallucination. My disorder doesn’t produce sounds but it leads me to misinterpret them sometimes.
I don’t hallucinate people, but I have hallucinated conversations.
I don’t realise until I tell people about the conversations and they say it never happened.
No I can’t tell I am hallucinating them until they disappear into thin air. Because usually they are not out of place. Like for example once when I left my apartment in college, I saw a guy walking from the other end of the hall. I just assumed he was another resident when suddenly bam he just wasn’t there anymore, gone. He was a hallucination.
My friend also has trouble telling if she is hallucinating a person or not, but sometimes can tell from context clues. For example she became suspicious a guy was a delusion when she saw him standing in the entrance way of her classroom, no one acknowledged him and he was just standing there staring at her.
I also used to think I didn’t hallucinate so I couldn’t be sza. But I didn’t realize what I was experiencing were hallucinations like swirling bright colors and the floors swirling and walls melting, I thought everyone experienced that when they zoned out and it was just a trick of the eyes. Nope.
Are you telling me it’s possible to hallucinate real people that can’t be distinguished from normal people? Like walking around in your house?
I’m not trying to offend anyone by being insensitive, it’s just that this is a question I’ve wanted answered for a long time so I know what to expect with my disorder. I haven’t been able to find the answer on google or quora because they never say whether it’s a mind’s eye hallucination or a normal eye hallucination. What I’d love to hear is an article say something like, “some people see them in their mind’s eye and others see them walking around.” No such article have I found though.