Hallucinations Likely Nightmare

Hallucination City Performance, Seattle, SAM Sulpture Park – May 16, 2008 (Photo credit: Iversonic)

Hallucination City Performance, Seattle, SAM Sulpture Park – May 16, 2008 (Photo credit: Iversonic)

Hallucination looks like nightmare which sends terror to the weak people and intimidates it into scary things.

Once I got high fever, at that time I was twelve years old. I couldn’t eat nor drink, was everything terrible for me. I felt some food just like a bitter thing on my tongue and I was lake of resting. I got head-ache, wanted to hit it into the wall because it was too much pain. I could feel my body trembling, hot and cold mixed together. In this condition, I saw hallucination. It took after the God creatures but it was not much alike. They all were watching and sitting next to me, when I opened my eyes, they were disappeared and if I reclosed, some strange things again and again coming closer. It made me heart-ache and then I said” am I passing away right now?” Those forced me to keep awaking.

My parents were thought at that time I was crazy, because I told them that I saw something but they couldn’t see it. Later on I was sent to a hospital and got medication. For three days I was there, and was getting better and better. Finally I had my rest well with a better health.   

Since then I wanted to know why it could happened to the people. I was searching the information about it but still I didn’t get it. Can you tell me?

Expert opinion;

“A hallucination, in the broadest sense of the word, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space. The latter definition distinguishes hallucinations from the related phenomena of dreaming, which does not involve wakefulness; illusion, which involves distorted or misinterpreted real perception; imagery, which does not mimic real perception and is under voluntary control; and pseudo hallucination, which does not mimic real perception, but is not under voluntary control. Hallucinations also differ from “delusional perceptions”, in which a correctly sensed and interpreted stimulus (i.e. a real perception) is given some additional (and typically bizarre) significance.

Hallucinations can occur in any sensory modality — visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, proprioceptive, equilibrioceptive, nociceptive, thermoceptive and chronoceptive.”