[wushuduck]

Particularly tactile ones. Like, I sometimes feel cobwebs on my face, or something brush against my hand. How do you know if they're hallucinations or not? Sometimes I see black dots and lines cobwebs too, and just then I saw a flying bug but it just evaporated. I don't get hallucinations as much as a lot of you here describe, in fact I hardly ever get them (but they're becoming more common), but when you do get them, how do you know if they are hallucinations or real?

[medicalfox]

My boyfriend tells me when they are real or not because it's hard to tell. I feel insects crawl all over me and my skin burning, but he assures me that there is nothing and that everything will be okay so I try my best not panic and wait for it stop. Other hallucinations are much harder to ignore and some of them continue to persist for quite awhile.

[wushuduck]

Originally Posted by medicalfox

My boyfriend tells me when they are real or not because it's hard to tell. I feel insects crawl all over me and my skin burning, but he assures me that there is nothing and that everything will be okay so I try my best not panic and wait for it stop. Other hallucinations are much harder to ignore and some of them continue to persist for quite awhile.

Tactile ones are a difficult one. I don't even know if they're hallucinations yet...

But like just now I started seeing those line-like things everywhere, now either it was a hallucination, migraine, or something else.

[likewater]

Originally Posted by Twigg

Particularly tactile ones. Like, I sometimes feel cobwebs on my face, or something brush against my hand. How do you know if they're hallucinations or not? Sometimes I see black dots and lines cobwebs too, and just then I saw a flying bug but it just evaporated. I don't get hallucinations as much as a lot of you here describe, in fact I hardly ever get them (but they're becoming more common), but when you do get them, how do you know if they are hallucinations or real?

I saw black dots when my blood pressure was too low. Are you dizzy at all?

[Jolisse]

Could they be floaters in your eyes? A lot of people will see back dots an squiggly lines every so often.

[wushuduck]

I don't think they're floaters, I get them too and can tell the difference. With floaters you can sort of tell they're in your eye, whereas these are more like projections.

[transient]

I get those tactile hallucinations a lot. It's difficult telling the difference, because recently my house has tiny little fruit flies and they always go for your face.
If I feel something I'll wipe it away, and look to see if it was a fallen hair or bug landing on my tiny arm hairs/ leg hairs or whatever. I keep my legs shaved bc I ALWAYS get these, and it helps. Lately there has been nothing there when I brush it away, and if I feel it repeatedly but there aren't any bugs, I assume it's a hallucination.