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Various Variations and Varieties of Visuals - ArmandCNP - 10-27-2025
Visuals are regarded as both the rarest and the most severe type of hallucination by the psychiatric community. If you get visuals but think of yourself as rather high functioning, that’s probably because visual hallucinations are far from being equal to one another. If this surprises you, it’s probably because you’ve never been scrutinized about your visual hallucinations on the same level as you have been about the other types.
Take the most common hallucination of a schizophrenic. Auditory hallucinations. You may get asked if the voices are clear or if they’re chatter. Are they quiet or loud? Are they close or far away? Is it one voice or many? Are they male or female? Do they make statements or give commands? You get me.
Vision, being the sense human beings primarily experience reality with, make hallucinations of such come in forms that one could ask far more questions about. I won’t put you to sleep with an exhaustive list. I’ll just hit on some important points in this post.
You’ll commonly hear people say they see shadow figures. They’re the most common and least severe. On the same level are distorted images of objects that are actually there. Seeing a spider on your skin that turns out to be a mole will doubtfully make it into your psychiatrist’s notes. Seeing bugs crawling all over your arm that you’re scratching away at could land you in the looney bin. Both were visuals of bugs. One was a distortion(not so severe) and one was a manifestation from nowhere(very severe).
The holy grail of visual hallucinations is the vivid image of a person that does not instantly go away. It sticks around. If you’ve unlocked this psychotic achievement, congratulations. You’re likely in for a few awards. Sorry, I mean a few wards. Other symptoms will likely be present when you've reached this level. Word salad. Bat shit crazy ideas. You’ve won the luxury of living in whatever world your brain decides to put you in at this point. That “A Beautiful Mind” reality where everything is normal apart from seeing three real-as-day people yet having no other symptoms just doesn’t happen.
Hardcore visuals send you into lala land