how do non drug induced Visual Hallucinations work ? what happens in the brain that makes the eyes see something that isn’t there?
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I see from other comments you’re a social worker with some experience of therapy.
My eldest daughter has constant audio visual hallucinations as a result of childhood trauma, where she sees the man responsible for that trauma and he tells her to kill herself. In all other respects, she’s perfectly ‘normal’. She’s currently in hospital receiving intensive help.
From my own experience I’ve had several over the years, audio, visual and in some cases both. Nearly always directly linked to extreme fatigue.
One hallucination involved a tree in the central reservation of the motorway… I recall thinking, “that’s odd… why would a tree be growing in the central reservation?”… what didn’t occur to me as odd however, was that the tree was keeping up with me while I was driving at 70mph. 🤔
Another was a rowing boat in the middle of the road, which I swerved to avoid… my first thought being it must have fallen off a truck that was transporting it.
The first visual one I can recall was whilst on exercise in the military. Two men to a trench, I was on watch, my oppo was asleep. When I turned around, he was sat at the opposite end of the trench, cleaning his rifle. I asked him what he was doing up as he wasn’t due to take over for another hour, but he just looked at me, smiled and carried on cleaning his rifle. I walked towards him still talking to him and it was only as I reached out to touch him that he vanished… confused I went to our dug out, and sure enough, there he was, fast asleep. 😏
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