How can you tell it is a hallucination?

[FlyingPurplePeopleMeeter]

When do you know? When it disappears?

Personally, I never knew I was hallucinating until my counselor saw me responding to what wasn’t there in his office. I didn’t know before that they weren’t real. My psychiatrist said you can learn to tell what is a hallucination. I’m trying to learn.

[Om_Sadasiva]

When the cat in my living room disappeared I knew it was a hallucination

[Wave]

What do you see @FlyingPurplePeopleMeeter?
People?

[FlyingPurplePeopleMeeter]

I see mostly people. I also see animals. I see less now while on medication, but it still happens.

[agent101g]

I get either the type that takes place in my head or the type that manifests outside my body, but the second group is always see through like a hologram, so it’s easy to tell it apart from a real person.

Whispers are the only things that have caused me to second guess myself. Luckily most people in my family never whisper.

[TomCat]

I didn’t figure out I hallucinated until I saw a little girl who came to talk to me enter the room through a wall and a chair.

No telling how many times it happened before then.

When I see strangers in my house I assume I am hallucinating. On the streets I would never know.

[TheVoices]

I just ask my mom if she hears that an it’s always no. But it sound so real.

[SkinnyMe]

I ask my best friend if she perceives the same message I do and she usually always says no. Especially if it is something that upsets me.

[FlyingPurplePeopleMeeter]

These are great tips! Thanks @Om_Sadasiva @agent101g @TomCat @TheVoices @SkinnyMe
@Wave

How To Spot a Hallucination

1. It disappears.
2. It doesn’t speak in a normal volume.
3. It doesn’t enter through a door.
4. It is a stranger to my house.
5. Ask someone else if they hear it.

Thanks!