7 types of hallucinations that often lurk the mind & bull; hello healthy

Hallucinations are false perceptions that occur in the absence of any external stimulus. This false perception can occur in one of the five senses. Therefore, hallucinations are basically seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or smelling something that is not there. Some people who experience hallucinations realize that it is just a false perception, but some really believe that what they are experiencing is real. To find out what the types of hallucinations are, let us have a full look below.

Types of hallucinations

These various types of hallucinations are often a symptom of certain illnesses, such as schizophrenia, but sometimes they can also be caused by drug abuse or excessive alcohol consumption, fever, sadness due to the loss of a loved one, depression, or dementia. Here are the types of hallucinations that can lurk your mind:

1. Auditory hallucinations (audio)

It is a type of hallucination which indicates the wrong perception of sounds, music, noise or sounds. Hearing voices in the absence of an auditory stimulus is the most common type of audio hallucinations in people with mental disorders. Sounds can be heard either inside or outside a person's head, and are generally considered more severe when they come from outside the head. Voices can be male or female, familiar or unfamiliar, and that of criticism or praise. In mental disorders such as schizophrenia, voices are usually negative and unpleasant.

In schizophrenics, a common symptom is hearing the voices of people conversing and making comments. When he hears voices speaking, it is usually the voices of two or more people talking to each other. He hears criticism or comments about himself, his behavior, or his thoughts, and he is usually in the third person (like, “no, he's stupid”). Other times, the voice can tell him to do something (this is often referred to as a hallucination command).

2. Taste hallucinations (gustatorius)

This is a misperception about taste. Usually, this experience is unpleasant. For example, an individual may complain that they have continually tasted metallic taste. This type of hallucination is seen more frequently in some medical disorders (such as epilepsy), compared to people with mental disorders.

3. Olfactory hallucinations (olfactory)

These hallucinations involve a variety of non-existent odors. This smell is usually unpleasant, such as the smell of vomit, urine, feces, smoke, or rotting flesh. This condition is also commonly referred to as phantosmia and can be caused by nerve damage in the sense of smell. Damage may be caused by viruses, trauma, brain tumors, or exposure to toxic substances or drugs. Phanthosmia it can also be caused by epilepsy.

4. Hallucinations or touch (tactile)

It is a false perception or sensation of touch or something happening in or on the body. These tactile hallucinations generally feel like something is crawling under or against the skin (this is also known as formication). Other examples include feeling electrocuted in the body, or feeling touched by another person but actually no one around. Physical sensations that come from medical disorders and hypochondriacal preoccupations with normal physical sensations are not classified as somatic hallucinations.

5. Visual hallucinations (visual)

This is a misperception of view. The content of the hallucinations can be anything (such as shapes, colors, and flashes of light), but usually people or figures like humans. For example, a person feels that someone is standing behind him even though there is no one around. Sometimes a person may experience the wrong perception of one of the figures related to religion (such as the devil).

6. Somatic hallucinations

It refers to when a person experiences a feeling of their body in severe pain, for example as a result of mutilation or shifting of a joint. The patient also reports that he is subjected to animal attacks on their bodies, such as a snake slithering into the stomach.