visual hallucination
Seeing unreal things
A visual hallucination is something seen that isn't there—an image perceived without any external stimulus.
Visual hallucinations range from simple flashes or geometric patterns to fully formed figures or scenes.
They occur in conditions including schizophrenia, delirium, drug intoxication, and certain neurological disorders: She reported visual hallucinations of people standing in her room.
- mirageAtmospheric optical deception
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
mental illness · psychosis · LSD · bad trip · seeing things · distortion · flashback · fever dream · delirium · schizophrenia · aura · afterimage · floaters · shadow people · trip · pink elephants · morphing · tracers
- Hallucinationsseeing things, hearing voices, shadow people, apparitions, apparition
visual hallucinationnormal vision
Unimpaired sight capacity
objective reality · reality · clear sight · empirical observation
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