whats happening when a person has delusion and hallucination?

Answer 1

Hallucination: an apparent perception of something not actually present. A false belief;illusion. what you see

delusion: A false belief, a persistent and false mental conception of facts as they relate to oneself.(allusion) what you hear in your head or think.
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Answer 2

These can be signs of schizophrenia. See a trained therapist right away.

Answer 3

Delusions and hallucinations are seperate events though they often feed the other.

A hallucination is simply put when you see something that is not there or give an ordinary object fantastic properties. The walls appearing to breath is a common hallucination when using substances such as LSD, Peyote, mushrooms. Trails are another common hallucination. In a person's lifetime they will suffer many hallucinations. The most common is the appearance of water on the highway in the distance. Many are induced as part of entertainment. Magicians for example induce hallucinations through slight of hand and other "magic". Another common type of hallucination among the sane is those induced by sleep deprivation. You see things out of the corner of your eye that are not there. Sounds come that are not there. Many people will suffer this during stressfull or spooky situations. They will conjure up what they expect to see.

For the severely mentally ill these hallucinations are a fact of life. It becomes difficult to discern whether or not that sound was real. Whether the thing they see is real. Certain physical ailments such as a brain tumor can also induce such strong hallucinations. What makes it especially difficult to discern is that conventional science is in it's infancy. There are many things out there we have little knowledge of or that science attempts to swat away but fails miserably in the attempt. Ghosts for example. Was what you saw a ghost, a hallucination or just a misinterpitation of light/shadow?

Paranormal attracts the mentally ill. This aggravates the problem as paranormal is a mix of real events, exagerated beliefs and complete faliacy. Someone who already has issues with determining whether sights and sounds are real will have even more difficulty as they are emersed in paranormal activities.

Delusion is when you see something in an unrealistic light. Every human suffers many delusions a year. Some last a lifetime. The greatest example is putting somebody or something on a pedestal. When that person or thing is examined under closer light it of course becomes falible. That doesn't stop humans from ascribing perfection to things that are not and never will be perfect. It might be politics, might be sports or love. Doesn't matter. People delude themselves all the time.

Con men are a great example of external delusion. They create what the conned want. They feed on other peoples dreams and wishes then use these to collect money or other goods such as sexual service or the leadership of a group. This is commonly used in religions, thus much of the bad name religion sometimes gets. The religion itself isn't to blame it's the people who gain control of the local worship center or even sometimes much higher up. Some of the Popes have been guilty of delusion on a grand scale. Most delusions are the act of a person(s) who either self fullfill or externally fullfill a wish or desire. Almost all delusion requires the deluded to buy into it. Most of the time there are obvious warnings but the deluded wants to believe something is true. So they pursue the goal despite the warnings it is nothing but an illusion, a con game. Relationships are probably the best everyday example. People related to the world thru personal experience. They project parts of themselves on others to understand other people. The problem begins when a person projects unrealistic expectations on another. This is normally when they see charactoristics the other person intentionally or unintentionally displays which have a meaning to the projecter. The issue is that the charactoristics might be completely unrelated to the actual values attributed. So the person feels betrayed when the projected attributes turn out to be incorrect. Rightfully so if the person who displayed certain attributes did so intentionally to gain trust/confidence with good or malicious intent. More often they have no idea why the other feels betrayed and no malice was involved. This leads to cries about one person changing when in reality they are the same as they always were. They are just seen in a different light.

When it comes to mental illness, some will create delusions on a grand scale and live by them. Aliens are a particulerly common delusion. The facts are that any species able to travel to the Earth is tremendously more advanced than us scientifically. This means we are at thier mercy. Technology is often an aggressive trait with the most aggressive nations in human history also being the ones who were most technologically advanced. Likewise 100 pacifisitic species won't survive the one aggressive species. So a space faring race is at worst quite capable of defending themselves. They may well have malicious intent. People understand this on a base psychological level. UFOs are a reality. To them they become the signs of an alien invasion. Religion is another common one. People see and even fight demons and such. They become Constitine (of the movie of the same name). Where is the line between sanity and delusion? With something such as religion or aliens it's hard to disprove. If aliens were here and attempting to take over very in a subtle fashion how would we know? If somebody did find proof who would believe them? How do we know they are not here? There is a mountain of proof both ways. Same with religous obsessions such as demons and evil spirits. There are things out there that science cannot explain. If you see one and suffer from delusions how do you know which is which?

When I was young and experimenting with PCP I saw a 100 foot dragon walk down the street. I was fairly confident this was a hallucination. The question though is did it have a spiritual meaning? That was the only hallucination I saw that day. The PCP was a mild sprinkling on a joint. Was there enough to even have an effect to cause a hallucination? Do you see the trap? How easy it is to question reality since reality itself is such a slippery slope. So for the person experiencing the hallucination it can be a physical misfiring of synapes causing information to appear. Mental illness, drugs, physical states are common ways this happens. Another common way is to want to see something so badly, and to be put in circumstances that are favorable. A spooky house and a ghost for example. This is delusion creating hallucinations. Did K actually see the aliens after Agent J told him about Men in Black or was it a circumstance based delusion? Did he only see what he wanted to see?

Hallucinations can spawn delusions as well. You see something and it can change your whole way of thinking even if it was a hallucinaiton. After all most people know only what they can reach with thier senses. Those who do not read or otherwise seek information with an abstract approach are limited purely to sensory information for the most part. So something that appears out of the ordinary can take on a whole slew of meanings.

So the mechanics of delusions and hallucinations are complex. Even in the case of mental illness. Few schitzophrenics suffer delusions about tigers running down the street. They see conspiracies, aliens, religious and mystical events. They see paranormal. So even with the severe chemical imbalences that are causing the misfires in thier brain they are able to still sort out the obviously improbable. Instead it's the shadowing areas that get them. They lack a strong reason to not believe such exists. Since there is not external means of really sorting truth from fiction they are left with sometimes difficult choices that feed itself, eventually building a world based on mixed fact and delusion. Life choices are made on these delusions and often they can bring about self prophcising reinforcements. The Religious cult which considers itself persecuted for example can find many examples of persecution in normal everyday negitivity. The athiest with a persecution delusion will focus in on the 1 in 100 Christian who bashes them and seek out any instance of attack on thier belief system. The less secure an individual is in thier beliefs the more actively they will attack other belief systems.

The net result whether induced by delusion or by physilogical conditions is that the brain misinterpets information. For example with hallucingens such as LSD the drug itself will affect how the eye sees. It will introduce chemical reactions which cause surpluses of some compounds/hormones and deficiencies of others. This will change how you percieve the world. For most people this change in perception leaves them attempting to force a return to normal perception. This internal conflict will produce things that are not there. The trails are simply an optic trick. The same with the walls breathing. Your eye's shutter speed to put it simply is slower. So you get longer images pasted on top of each other. The filtering that normally removes such is overwhelmed. So you see trails, see the walls breathing. Which is the real hallucination is unclear. Your mind probably normally filters out the trails to create clearer vision. The movement of the walls is perceptable but irrelivent. Compared to everything else they are stationary. In reality they do move, just not enough to be of any interest normally. So we filter that movement out. In an altered state we might be seeing merely exagerations of things we see everyday but normally filter out.

Sounds tend to be misinterpitations. We hear a twig crack but are scared and tired that twig can be interpited more like a gunshot. Our brain can then find and provide a more accurate representation. We do this every day all day long. Much of what we hear is not literal sound translated. It is our ears hearing something, we then search for a match for that sound. If the sound wasn't clear enough we amplify it by substituting the library version of what we heard for the real thing. This makes it clear to us. So in an altered state of some sort we start pulling up the wrong lib samples and get a "hallucination". In particuler if the person is "delusional" they will sometimes intentionally misinterpit the sound to fit the delusion.

Severe misinterpitation will render a person unable to funciton. Long term severe misinterpitation will render them disabled and or dangerous.

Answer 4

All sorts. Everything moves and is exaggerated.

Answer 5

The person is CRAZY!

Answer 6

run for office?

Answer 7

have you seen "the sixth sense"?
I SEE DEAD PEOPLE..... :)