What is hallucination? What are the symptoms of hallucinations? Answers to these questions you will find in the article.
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Hallucinations
Hallucinations (from lat. Hallucination - nonsense, vision) - Imaginary
Images of items and situations perceived as real but
missing in reality arising spontaneously, without sensory
Stimulation. Caused by internal mental factors (in
The opposite of illusion that is a distorted perception
external incentives). Another 7 in. Indian philosopher Kumarilla Bhahatta
expressed consonant contemporary guesses about the deceptions of human
perception. Illusory image, it claimed, determined by perversion
relationship between an external object and organ. Causes can be
Defects of senses, as well as disorders when memory images
projected into the outside world and become hallucinations.
Some hallucinations can have a bright sensual color,
persuasiveness and proceed with out and be indistinguishable from real
Perceptions. Such hallucinations are called true. Other
perceived inner hearing or vision, localized in
the inner field of consciousness and felt as the result of the impact of some
external force causing vision, voices and t.NS. This phenomenon described
At the end of 19 in. Russian psychiatrist B.NS.Kandinsky, called
pseudogalucinations.
Symptoms of hallucinations
A hallucinating patient simultaneously with false images can
adequately perceive and reality. His attention
It is unevenly distributed, often disappeared towards deceptions
perception. Understanding the pain of hallucinations mostly
absent, the patient behaves exactly as if apparently he
It really happened. Often hallucination whatever
irrational none of their contents, for the patient are more relevant than
reality, and patients relate to them as well as appropriate
Real phenomena. Patients are closely visiting,
turn away, closing their eyes, looked around, dishwate, defended,
try to touch or grab something with your hand, listen,
Strip ears, sniffs, drop something from their body and t.NS.
Under the influence of hallucinations, various actions are performed reflecting
The content of deceptions of perception: patients hide, find something,
catch, attack others, sometimes try to kill themselves, destroy
Items, defend, they flee themselves, turn with complaints and t.D.
With auditory hallucinations, speak aloud «voices». How
rule, patients believe that the surrounding perceive the same as they
in his hallucinations - hear the same voices, are experiencing the same
Vision, feel smells. Emotional reactions are clearly expressed,
The character of which reflects the content of the deceptions of perception: fear, rage,
Disgust, enthusiastic.
The patient is in great difficulty if imaginary and
Real images enter into attributes of antagonism and possess equal
power influence on behavior. With such «Split» Personal patient as
would exist in two «Measurements» Immediately, in a conflict situation
Conscious and unconscious.
Mentally ill, especially schizophrenia
or manico-depressive psychosis, can believe that he is a messenger
Heaven, and constantly hear the voice of God speaking him. He can
feel a gentle touch of angelic hand. These sensory
impressions that come from the inside of the psyche are perceived as
genuine, really existing incentives outgoing from outside.
Repeating hallucinations of mentally illness can create a whole
Fantastic world designed to adapt
Internal emotional conflict for reality. To less severe cases
include hallucinations, usually auditory or visual, which
There are healthy people in periods of deep emotional periods
Experience.
Hallucinations can be deceived any of the five major feelings,
T.E. They are visual, auditory, olfactory, taste,
Tactile and hallucinations of general feeling (experience of what is happening
inside the body of unusual processes, feeling from presence in
The body of foreign objects and T.NS.).
If the patient hears the voices - hearing hallucinations; If he sees the dead - visual. Patient paranoia,
constantly experiencing that the room smells like poisonous gases,
penetrating through the wall, suffer from olfactory hallucinations.
The person who complains that the pursuers are striking him
Electric discharges, testing tactile hallucinations. W
a patient who feels that in his food is notched poison, taste
Hallucinations. Possible hallucinations arising from some
Certain sensory field. So, the patient may seem to seem
From some point on the head water is poured. Tactile (tactile)
hallucinations are associated with the feeling of touches, usually unpleasant.
For example, cocainers often complain about the feeling of running under the skin
insects. In a state of delirium,
Usually due to alcohol poisoning, patients are often seen
Various little creatures. In this case, the patient describes
Normal object, reduced to microscopic proportions. When
the patient complains that some parts of the body are not where they should
be, and in some other place, talk about psychomotor hallucinations.
Hypnotogic hallucinations arise from mentally healthy people in
Moment between wakefulness and sleep. So, falling asleep drivers,
riding late at night, can suddenly pull on the brakes, because
He fully appears that he sees a man running away
on the road in front of the car.
