What are schizophrenic hallucinations like?

The basic processes of perceiving and thinking are affected by schizophrenia. Learn about the internal experience of delusions and hallucinations. read more

A person with schizophrenia may find their attention drawn to one particular person’s face, notice that the teeth are very white, and then perceive the mouth and teeth growing to fill the room. This perceptual distortion would feel just like a real visual perception, and the person may believe it's actually occurring. read more

Hallucinations. Psychiatrists define a hallucination as ‘a sense perception that arises in the absence of a stimulus’. Hallucinations involve hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, or feeling things that are not actually there. The most common hallucinations in schizophrenia are auditory hallucinations—hallucinations of sounds and voices. read more

Schizophrenia. More than 70% of people with this illness get visual hallucinations, and 60%-90% hear voices. But some may also smell and taste things that aren't there. Parkinson's disease. Up to half of people who have this condition sometimes see things that aren't there. Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. read more