Comments on: Hallucinations and Illusions

By: Miss Slater

Miss Slater — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:59:32 +0000

Hi
Interesting site.
I have been experiencing illusions and sometimes hallucinations for about 7 years. I see inanimate objects wobbling and shifting, distorting and melting, particularly when anxious and stressed. Sometimes I see flashes of colour. Occasionally I hear a voice saying just one random word, or whispering my name. There have been other things but I won’t go into too much detail.
I have had an MRI scan and things are fine.I have M.E/CFS and a depressive ‘illness’. I see a psychiatrist.
I know it would be difficult for you to know without speaking to me in person and knowing my medical circumstances, but do you know of any reason as to why I experience these things?
From this page I would say I am experiencing, Affect Illusions and Elementary hallucinations.

By: kolt

kolt — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:01:09 +0000

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By: emil

emil — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:43:52 +0000

Great site, really. Hi there preople. The reason I ever visited it was that I’m looking something up and I can’t find it really. This night I was reading an old book from ‘73 (I am from eastern Europe, otherwise) and I came across a strange thing (new to me, though somewhat old, from the days of the Cold War), called: polygonal hallucination. Well I hope someone of you people could make it clear to me. If so, please drop me a line at emfrentes@yahoo.com.
Thanks in advance,
E

By: Frontier Psychiatrist

Frontier Psychiatrist — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:16:03 +0000

Nutty – your comments are always interesting – can you tell us a bit more about how you would categorize your experiences? My experience of talking to patients in crisis is that their symptoms very rarely fit into categorical boxes.

By: Nutty

Nutty — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:49:19 +0000

One thing which, as a patient, I find difficult about categories such as this is that the boundaries between different experiences as deliniated by the terminology don’t match the boundaries between my experiences as it feels natural to me to categorise them. Differences between different ways of categorising experiences makes communication difficult.

By: TheShrink

TheShrink — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:45:27 +0000

A very clear and comprehensive summary. In fact the only other bit of language I use in talking 'bout perceptual abnormalities is an oneiroid state of a dreamy state when there's a propensity for abnormal percepts.

By: Frontier Psychiatrist

Frontier Psychiatrist — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:35:25 +0000

Ha, ha person I’ve clearly never met.

By: Whiskers

Whiskers — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:25:05 +0000

It should have been done with Gerbils for reasons which are deeply buried within the FP’s subconscious!

By: Frontier Psychiatrist

Frontier Psychiatrist — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:06:18 +0000

Actually I wasn’t thinking of that, although that may be the case.

Let’s assume that the rat having eaten the omega-3 less diet actually does find it more difficult to do the task. It does not necessarily follow that the same holds for humans. Also we’re only talking about one rat here and the experiment would have to be repeated many times to make the finding robust.

I should say though that I don’t know much about this sort of thing, but I do know that the gold standard way of establishing whether omega-3 rich diets are beneficial would be to do a control trial of some sort, which to the best of my knowledge has not been done.

By: NorthernIrelandExile

NorthernIrelandExile — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:55:39 +0000

The leap of logic is obvious, it’s a very poorly designed experiment.

It isn’t really helped by the fact that rat number two looks clearly disorientated. It keeps on attempting to swim out of the basin and consequently hits the rim at full speed, face first. It looks to me like it has been spun around before entering the water. Surely if that rat was fully orientated (even if deficient in Omega 3s) it would have stopped hurting itself after one or two attemps? It’s co-ordination is bizarre.