0 an experience in which you see, hear, feel, or smell something that does not exist, usually because you are ill or have taken a drug:
A high temperature can cause hallucinations.
He had predicted at baseline that he would experience verbal hallucinations as part of the amphetamine experience.
But if the object is just a hallucination, its ontological status will be that of an imaginary object.
Negative symptoms could be either a downstream effect of delusions / hallucinations and thought disorder or could be a fundamental deficit that has different outcomes.
Auditory hallucinations in psychosis often contain critical evaluations of the voicehearer (for example, attacks on self-worth).
In schizophrenia, patients may perceive hallucinations under pressure of increased attention to environmental cues and events that relate to their social fears.
The presence of auditory hallucinations in non-help-seeking community samples emphasizes that the experience of voices per se may not or may not be distressing.
Among 303 ultra-orthodox male referrals for a psychiatric evaluation, 80 experienced frightening hallucinations that were mainly nocturnal and visual.
These findings were similar for visual and auditory hallucinations separately.