I dont understand what is going on or has happened to me. I seem to just deal with delusions and ocasional hallucinations (auditory). What I’m confused by is the visual hallucinations. I used to “see” things but there wasnt actually anything i was physically seeing. I was seeing things projected from my minds eye mixed with delusions that made it “real”. So, how does a visual hallucination work? I do have some “real” ones but they are things like the floor moving away from me or the sky,colors being brighter or things moving from the corner of my eye. So, how “real” is a visual hallucination?
Watch the movie, (a beautiful mind) with Russell Crowe. It’s about a scientist and professor who has schizophrenia.
Ive seen it but it doesnt really answer my questions. Good movie though
His visual hallucinations were like the real thing to him. Thought his neighbors next door were loud and obnoxious and always complained about them and then he found out he didn’t have neighbors. People he saw every day weren’t real, they look just like real people walking by talking to you trying to get your attention maybe.
I got into an arguement with a hallucination of a very very powerful general. He was angry at me for joking around instead of being serious. Later the next day while driving I saw him in a lexus SUV stopped at a red light as I passed through driving.
It can mess with you, really badly.
In the past I have seen some images and visions in my dreams. Long time ago when I was at one bar with my father I met a woman. I had a discussion with her and then we, I and my father, left. At that night I had a dream in which I saw the location where this woman lived and then there were words ‘If you are seen with her, there will be some big trouble’. Next morning when I woke up and we, I and my father, had our breakfast, I asked where this woman lived and my father told the exact location that I had seen in my dream. I never had anything to do with that woman any longer.
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Visual hallucinations are different for everyone. For me, I can usually tell they are fake because they’re so absurd. A tiger in my bedroom or a vampire flying around my yard. Sometimes I just see people standing there, and I think they’re real right up until they disappear.
My most common hallucinations are visual just like you described. When I lose touch with reality they are very real. I see them in my mind’s eye but it is so vivid that I feel them standing next to me. When the demon screams at me I can feel his anger and it’s very real what he is saying. There are different kinds of visual hallucinations. I’ve only had a couple that I could see in the real world. It’s like some people hear voices in their head while others hear them outside. Everyone’s different. Good luck! 
A little girl came and talked with me once. She came into the room through a wall and a chair. That’s how I knew I was hallucinating. Despite the fact I still had a conversation with her. You can’t always tell that you’re hallucinating. My therapist thinks some things I have told him were hallucinations. They seemed real to me. I make sure I take my medication nowadays and don’t have to worry about it thankfully.
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I hallucinate numbers that aren’t what they are to me. In other words, I’ll see an 8 when it’s a 0 or a 3, or a 2 when it’s a 3. I also animate objects thinking a paper bag is a cat or an article of clothing is a person. These are brief hallucinations. The numbers are annoying to get wrong. I can usually correct the matter by scrutinizing or tilting my head.
Have you ever been tested for dyscalculia? It’s like dyslexia, but with numbers. What you described there is spot on for what people experience with that disorder.
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I have never heard of that disease before, ninjastar. I had really hard problems with mathematics growing up and I too wonder if I have some type of disorder that prevents me from calculating or seeing mathematical logic.
I had an EEG a few days ago, and I had about a dozen extremely vivid visual hallucinations. I can still remember the briefcase full of bees. I never have hallucinations of any kind, so this made me think (and this is only my hypothesis) that there’s a relationship between brainwave activity and visual hallucinations. Maybe, maybe not.
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