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Health Encyclopedia: Hallucinations
Hallucinations are abnormal sensory perceptions that occur while a person is awake and conscious and are unrelated to outside events; in other words, seeing or hearing things that aren't there.
Alternative Names
Sensory hallucinations
Considerations
Common hallucinations include:
- Hearing voices when no one has spoken
- Seeing patterns, lights, beings or objects that aren't there
- Feeling a crawling sensation on the skin
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Expert & Community Posts
Understanding Voices & Coping with Them
By Jerry Kennard , Health Expert...cultures we have come to view voices as a feature of mental illness (along with all the stigma... Read more »
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By Robin Cunningham , Health Expert...terrible secret. "Your mother tells me you're hearing voices. Is that true?" "Not... Read more »
Question of the Week: Symptoms
By Christina Bruni , Health ExpertThis week I pose the question: how does the schizophrenia play out in your life? What kinds of... Read more »
Stalking Irish Madness
By Christina Bruni , Health Expert...even at the trailer camp, and at a meeting of the Hearing Voices Network where he listens to... Read more »
Health Guide
Hallucinations
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