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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
I' m totally unclear on the difference between tactile hallucinations and somatic...they both sound like feeling things to me so I'm not sure what I had. Only one for taste. A handful for smell although those were the last to go and a similar number of visuals that I know about...there are some things that were just odd and the visuals were basically so realistic I could never tell unless they broke some universal law of couldn't have possibly happened. Predominantly auditory.
BWR...my visuals usually only changed part of a scene like the center line of the road would be zig-zag instead of straight, I would change people to more exotic cloths or give them pipes if I thought they were secretly leprechauns. They actually considered me for the epilepsy thing too because my olfactory hallucinations weren't going away but they were like well you've already got one diagnosis but you might have a second instead of hey this all might be temporal lobe epilepsy...I was just like I don't need a second for something this minor and eventually they just went away. Yeah but all they need to do is an EEG to find out...it's not a bad idea to get one if you aren't responding to meds because it could be electrical.
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Yeah, I was supposed to get an EEG, but then I moved to another state and we just never got around to it.
The difference between tactile and somatic hallucinations is that tactile feels like you're getting information from outside your body or about your environment, while somatic feels like you're getting information from inside or about your body.
Believe it or not, they are actually considered different kinds of senses! Interoception refers to senses that tell you about your body (pain, organ movement, the need to pee, proprioception, balance) while exteroception tells you about your environment (the traditional 5 senses plus temperature, time). There are many more than 5 senses, so in theory one could have hallucinations in any of them. And I need to stop now because I am getting wayyy too nerdy.