Hallucinations, what are they and how are they caused?
First let me say anyone can have these, your not crazy,
and you don’t have to have a mental disorder
A hallucination is the brain's electrical system shorting
out an one area. This means that the person having a hallucination is
experiencing an event through one of their senses that is not occurring in the
real world. This is where voices are hear with an auditory hallucination,
listening to lots of music before bed can cause this type of hallucination. A
short circuit can have us hearing our own thoughts but will seem to come from
the outside. A mild form of
hallucination is known as a disturbance, and can occur in any of the senses
above. These may be things like seeing movement in peripheral vision, or hearing faint noises and/or
voices.
Who can have hallucinations? Anyone can have them if
exposed to chemical or electrical or even auditory pollution. Though they are
more prevalent in those with schizophrenia or bi-polar diagnosis’s. Hypnagogic
hallucinations and hypnopompic hallucinations are considered normal .
Hypnagogic hallucinations can occur as one is falling asleep and hypnopompic
hallucinations occur when one is waking up. Now these can seem real and the person
may believe they really happened. Anyone who has experienced sleep paralysis
understands how real they can be.
Now lets look at visual hallucinations, who can have
them? Anyone can experience these, once again its when our brain signals get
crossed. These are when you see something that isn’t there, a ghost, a shadow
man, once again our brains cause this by filling in missing information so a
tiny misfire in the brain can cause us to see things that aren’t there. The
people who experience these more may have a psychotic disorder to dementia to
migraines, but they don’t have to have anything.
Tactile hallucinations are when we feel like we are
touched, someone crawling on you, an animal jumping on you, even bugs crawling
on you. Now this type of hallucination is usually associated with drug use but
doesn’t have to be.