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Please feel free to move/delete/edit this posting if it doesn't belong here. I am posting here because hallucinations can fall under many different diagnosis terms...
My questions is what exactly defines a hallucination? For instance... I myself have different varieties (I believe) of hallucinations. I have seen things and felt things that I know are not real. I have felt a spider crawl on me and felt and saw it bite me and watched it and touched it to see if it was real. It felt like it was there but I knew I was hallucinating. The spider eventually disappeared. I've seen large buffalo get hit by cars, things like that. Situations and visuals like these have happened numerous times during high stress.
What about the times where... Walls breath, you can see the ground shift, you are in a small room and you feel like it's moving under you like you're in a storm on a boat?
Or even less obvious as these.. Where you see things out the corner of your eye... You think you hear muffled noises all the time... Like when you leave the building and think you hear the phone ringing as you step out, when you open the door the phone isn't ringing... I go on cig breaks at work and every cig break I open the door 5-15 times to listen because I think I hear the phone...
So what is the difference? Are they all hallucinations? Is there a spectrum of hallucinations like there is dissociation? It's rather confusing when you always have experiences with the hallucinations listed directly above but only occassional experiences with the first description... Sorry if I'm making no sense, it doesn't make sense to me either lol! Thanks for any replies!!!
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