I don't have schizophrenia, I have type 1 bipolar with psychotic features, although schizoaffective might be more fitting. I'm not going to get pushy with my new pdoc about diagnosis, though.

I hope this isn't super rude somehow, but I am extremely curious about what other people see when they have visual hallucinations.

Usually my psychosis only goes so far as to change the way real things look. Colors, textures, or suddenly the neighbor's house just looks huge. I'll be seeing real things but perceiving them differently.

However when I do get visual hallucinations, they are brief and just.. random as heck. The last time it happened I kept seeing geometric-looking ghost cats. It looked like they were fading in and out of another dimension or something. They weren't cute, scary, or anything at all. They didn't do any interacting. I would just suddenly see one sitting or lying somewhere, saw one go down the hallway and then disappear.

Just seems so random to me, maybe because psychosis is often to sensationalized in the media that I would have expected something like angels, demons, or just something that would seem more intense. But my brain produced.. cats.

Anyone comfortable enough and willing to share what sorts of things you see?