Contents:
- Medical Video: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth
- Types of hallucinations
- 1. auditory hallucinations (audio)
- 2. Taste hallucinations (gustatorius)
- 3. Olfactory hallucinations
- 4. Hallucinations or touch (tactile)
- 5. Vision hallucinations (visual)
- 6. Somatic hallucinations
Medical Video: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth
Hallucinations are false perceptions that occur without an external stimulus. This false perception can occur in one of the five senses. Therefore, hallucinations are basically seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, or smelling something that really doesn't exist. Some people who experience hallucinations realize that it is just a false perception, but some really believe that what they experience is real. To find out what are the types of hallucinations, let's look at them below.
Types of hallucinations
Various types of hallucinations often become symptoms of certain diseases, such as schizophrenia, but sometimes it can also be caused by drug abuse or excessive alcohol consumption, fever, sadness due to loss of the closest person, depression, or dementia. Here are the types of hallucinations that can lurk your mind:
1. auditory hallucinations (audio)
This is a type of hallucination that shows the wrong perception of sound, music, noise, or sound. Hearing voices when there is no auditory stimulus is the most common type of audio hallucinations in people with mental disorders. Sound can be heard either inside or outside a person's head, and is generally considered to be more severe when it comes from outside the head. Sound can be the voice of a woman or man, who is familiar or not familiar, and in the form of criticism or praise. In mental disorders like schizophrenia, sounds are usually negative and unpleasant.
In people with schizophrenia, a common symptom is hearing the voices of people talking and commenting. When he hears talking voices, usually it is the sound of two or more people talking to each other. He hears criticism or comments about himself, his behavior, or his thoughts, and he usually becomes a third person (like, "no, he's stupid"). At other times, the voice can tell him to do something (this is often referred to as hallucinatory orders).
2. Taste hallucinations (gustatorius)
This is a wrong perception of taste. Usually, this experience is not pleasant. For example, an individual may complain that he has tasted metal taste continuously. This type of hallucinations is often seen in some medical disorders (such as epilepsy), compared to people with mental disorders.
3. Olfactory hallucinations
These hallucinations involve various odors that do not exist. This smell is usually unpleasant, such as the smell of vomiting, urine, feces, smoke, or rotting meat. This condition is also often referred to as phantosmia and can be caused by nerve damage in the sense of smell. Damage may be caused by a virus, trauma, brain tumor, or exposure to toxic substances or drugs. Phantosmia this can also be caused by epilepsy.
4. Hallucinations or touch (tactile)
This is a false perception or sensation of touch or something that happens inside or on the body. These touch hallucinations generally feel like something is crawling beneath or on the skin (this is also known as formication). Other examples include feeling electrocuted in the body, or feeling touched by someone else but actually there is no one around him. Physical sensations that come from medical disorders and hypochondriacal preoccupations with normal physical sensations not included as somatic hallucinations.
5. Vision hallucinations (visual)
This is a false perception of view. The contents of hallucinations can be anything (such as shape, color, and light), but usually people or figures like humans. For example, someone feels someone is standing behind him even though there is nobody. Sometimes a person may experience the wrong perception of one of the characters related to religion (like Satan).
6. Somatic hallucinations
This refers to when a person experiences the feeling of their body feeling severe pain, for example due to mutilation or a shift in joints. Patients also report that they experience animal attacks on their bodies, like snakes crawling into their stomachs.
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