I've had similar visual hallucinations when psychotic. Psychotic features can be present in bipolar disorder during actual mood episodes. Psychotic features that are ongoing outside of mood episodes/during "normal" mood states point towards schizophrenia or schizoaffective. Schizoaffective disorder I believe is a combo of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. There is a book called Surviving Schizophrenia and also one called Surviving Manic Depression (author is Torrey, an MD) - very good reads. I highly recommend Surviving Schizophrenia - the author's sister is schizophrenic and it's such an informative book and really goes into symptoms of psychosis. I'm not a doctor, but hope this is helpful info for you. Antipsychotics have tremendously helped with my psychotic features - including hallucinations. Take care.