Hallucination are false perceptions of sensory experiences. Some hallucinations are normal, such as those caused by falling asleep or waking up. But others may be a sign of a more serious condition like schizophrenia or dementia.

A hallucination is a false perception of objects or events involving your senses: sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. Hallucinations seem real, but they’re not. Chemical reactions and/or abnormalities in your brain cause hallucinations.

Hallucinations are typically a symptom of a psychosis-related disorder, particularly schizophrenia, but they can also result from substance use, neurological conditions and some temporary situations.

A person may experience a hallucination with or without the insight that what they’re experiencing isn’t real. When a person thinks their hallucination is real, it’s considered a psychotic symptom.

Types of hallucinations

There are several different types of hallucinations, including:

• Auditory (sound) hallucinations: These are the most common type of hallucinations. They involve hearing sounds that aren’t real, like music, footsteps or doors banging. Some people hear voices when no one has spoken. The voices may be positive, negative or neutral. They may command you to do something that may cause harm to yourself or others.
• Visual (sight) hallucinations: These hallucinations involve seeing things that aren’t real, like objects, shapes, people, animals or lights.
• Tactile (touch) hallucinations: These hallucinations cause you to feel touch on your body or movement in your body that’s not real. They may involve feeling like bugs are crawling on your skin or your internal organs are moving around.
• Olfactory (smell) hallucinations: These hallucinations involve experiencing smells that don’t exist or that no one else can smell.
• Gustatory (taste) hallucinations: These hallucinations cause tastes that are often strange or unpleasant. Gustatory hallucinations (often with a metallic taste) are a relatively common symptom for people with epilepsy.
• Presence hallucinations: These hallucinations make you feel that someone is in the room with you or standing behind you.
• Proprioceptive hallucinations: These hallucinations make you think that your body is moving, such as flying or floating, when it’s not.

There are also types of hallucinations that are sleep-related, for example:

• Hypnopompic hallucinations: These are hallucinations that occur as you’re waking up from sleep. For most people, hypnopompic hallucinations are considered normal and aren’t cause for concern. They may be more common in people with certain sleep disorders.
• Hypnagogic hallucinations: These are hallucinations that happen as you’re falling asleep. They’re usually short-lasting and about 86% of them are visual. People commonly see moving patterns and shapes or vivid images of faces, animals or scenes. These hallucinations aren’t usually a cause for concern.

Difference between a hallucination and a delusion

A hallucination is a sensory experience. It involves seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling or feeling something that isn’t there.

Delusions are unshakable beliefs in something untrue. For example, they can involve someone thinking they have special powers, or they’re being poisoned despite strong evidence that these beliefs aren’t true.

Difference between a hallucination and an illusion

Hallucinations are a perception not based on sensory input, whereas illusions are misinterpretations of sensory inputs. In other words, hallucinations involve experiencing something that doesn’t exist.

Illusions happen when you misinterpret something real in your environment. For example, you might mistake a black cat sitting on a windowsill. Upon further examination, you realize that it’s a bag and not a cat. This is an illusion.

How do I know if I’m hallucinating?

It’s possible to experience hallucinations while being aware that they aren’t real. For example, some people grieving the death of a loved one may momentarily hear their deceased loved one’s voice or see them, but they know that what they’re hearing or seeing is impossible. Most people are also able to tell that the hallucinations that happen when they’re falling asleep or waking up aren’t real.

In these cases, you can use context clues and your environment to tell that what you’re “experiencing” isn’t real.

However, some people don’t realize that they’re hallucinating. This is more common in chronic conditions like schizophrenia and dementia.

Possible Causes

There are many possible causes of hallucinations, for example:

• Temporary causes.
• Certain mental health conditions.
• Certain neurological conditions.
• Side effects of certain medications.

Temporary causes of hallucinations

The following conditions or situations may temporarily cause hallucinations:

• Falling asleep or waking up.
• Being under the influence of alcohol or certain drugs, such as marijuana, hallucinogens (LSD and PCP) cocaine, amphetamines, heroin or ketamine etc.
• High fever.
• Severe dehydration.
• Sleep deprivation.
• Migraine.
• Severe pain.
• Grieving
• Infections like UTIs, especially in older people.
• Recovering from anesthesia after a surgery or procedure.

Experiencing hallucinations in these ways is usually not a cause for concern. However, if you have an acute medical issue that’s causing them, like an infection or a fever, it’s important to seek medical treatment for the issue.

Mental health conditions that may cause hallucinations

Schizophrenia is the main mental health condition that causes hallucinations. Schizophrenia refers to both a single condition and a spectrum of conditions that fall under the category of psychosis-related disorders. These are conditions where a person experiences some form of “disconnection” from reality (psychosis), which can include hallucinations.

Conditions that fall under the schizophrenia spectrum and may cause hallucinations include:

• Schizophrenia.
• Schizotypal personality disorder (which also falls under the category of personality disorders).
• Delusional disorder.
• Brief psychotic disorder.
• Schizophreniform disorder.
• Schizoaffective disorder.

Hearing voices is the most common type of hallucination in people with these mental health conditions.

Other mental health conditions that may cause hallucinations include:

• Bipolar disorder: People with bipolar disorder can experience hallucinations during both severe depressive and/or severe manic episodes.
• Major depression with psychotic features (psychotic depression): Major depressive disorder (MDD) with psychotic features is a distinct type of depressive illness in which mood disturbance is accompanied by either delusion, hallucinations or both.

Neurological conditions that may cause hallucinations

Neurological conditions that may cause hallucinations include:

• Parkinson’s disease: This condition causes a part of your brain to deteriorate, causing more severe symptoms over time. About 20% to 40% of people with Parkinson’s disease experience hallucinations or delusions. This can also be due to side effects of medications or dementia.
• Alzheimer’s disease: About 13% of people with Alzheimer’s disease experience hallucinations. Hallucinations are caused by changes within your brain that result from the condition.
• Lewy body dementia: This condition involves the buildup of clumps of proteins — called Lewy bodies — in your brain’s nerve cells. Lewy bodies damage nerve cells. It can cause hallucinations, and they’re usually visual. They might be one of the first signs of Lewy body dementia.
• Epilepsy: People who have epilepsy that involves a part of their brain called the temporal lobe can experience hallucinations — most commonly olfactory hallucinations.
• Narcolepsy: This is a neurological disorder that affects your brain’s ability to control sleep and wakefulness. People with narcolepsy often experience hallucinations just before falling asleep (hypnagogic hallucinations) or just after waking up (hypnopompic hallucinations).

Other conditions that can cause hallucinations

Charles Bonnet syndrome causes a person whose vision has started to deteriorate to see hallucinations. This condition only causes visual hallucinations.

Terminal illnesses, including liver failure, kidney failure, stage 3 HIV/AIDS and brain cancer can all cause hallucinations.

Allopathic medications that can cause hallucinations

Many prescription medications can occasionally cause or worsen hallucinations as a side effect. Elderly people may be at greater risk due to increased sensitivity to medications. Hallucinations caused by allopathic medications may be dose-related and usually stop when you discontinue the medication.

Allopathic Treatment for hallucination

The treatment for hallucinations depends on the cause. Hallucinations caused by temporary conditions, such as high fever, severe dehydration or infection, will resolve once the underlying condition has been treated.

Certain allopathic medications and therapies may help treat hallucinations in people with chronic conditions that cause them, for example:

Typical first-generation for example:

• Chlorpromazine
• Droperidol
• Fluphenazine
• Haloperidol
• Loxapine
• Perphenazine
• Pimozide
• Prochlorperazine
• Thioridazine
• Thiothixene
• Trifluoperazine

Atypical second-generation:

• Aripiprazole
• Asenapine
• Clozapine
• Iloperidone
• Lurasidone
• Olanzapine
• Paliperidone
• Quetiapine
• Risperidone
• Ziprasidone

Combination therapy

• Olanzapine plus fluoxetine

All these allopathic medications may help decrease the frequency and severity of hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder with psychotic features.

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) may reduce auditory hallucinations that don’t respond to antipsychotic medications. This therapy involves using magnetic pulses to target specific areas of the brain. Sometimes, doctors may combine rTMS with traditional treatments, including antidepressants.

Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (also called cholinesterase inhibitors) for example – donepezil, rivastigmine, and galantamine. In general, these three compounds have similar efficacy and are approved for either mild-to-moderate AD or the entire AD spectrum. They may reduce psychosis (hallucinations and/or delusions) in people with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia.

Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors block the normal breakdown of acetylcholine, which is a neurotransmitter that functions in both the peripheral nervous system and central nervous system.

Homeopathic treatment for dementia

Anacardium Orientale

Neurasthenics patients: who have nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food; impaired memory, depression, and irritability; diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing). Fears. Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc. Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse. Sensation of a plug in various parts-eyes, rectum, bladder etc; also, of a band. Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves all discomfort. Alzheimer’s disease. Dementia. Delirium. Intermittency of symptoms.

Fixed ideas. Hallucinations: thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills. Anxiety when walking, as if pursued. Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language. Brain-fag. Impaired memory. Absent mindedness. Very easily offended. Malicious; seems bent on wickedness. Lack of confidence in himself or others. Suspicious. Clairaudient hears voices far away or of the dead. Senile dementia. Absence of all moral restraint. Vertigo. Pressing pain, as from a plug; worse after mental exertion-in forehead; occiput, temples, vertex; better during a meal. Itching and little boils on scalp.

Rhododendron

Dread of a storm; particularly afraid of thunder. Forgetful. Hallucination. Dementia. Delirium; staggers; falls asleep on his knees. Frightful visions. Sambre, morose humor. Excessive indifference. Sudden loss of ideas. Leaves out whole words when writing. While talking forgets what he is talking about. Reeling sensation in head; brain feels as if surrounded with a fog.

Helleborus Niger

Melancholy taciturnity. Excessive, and almost mortal anguish. Homesickness. Hypochondriacal humor. Tedium vitae; envious seeing others happy. Dementia. Delirium. Suicidal. Indolence. Sobbing lamentation. Hallucination. Obstinate silence. Irritable – feel better from consolation. Suspicious. Dullness of the internal senses. Stupidity and want of reflection, with (thoughtless) fixedness of look on one single point, much moaning, and inability to think. Weakness of the memory. The mind seems to lose command over the body; the muscles refuse their office as soon as the attention is diverted (if the will is not strongly fixed upon their action; if he talks he lets fall what he holds in his hand). Giddiness on stooping. Stupefying headache. Face pale – dropsical swelling of the face and body.

Absinthian

Forgets what has recently happened. Hallucination. Insane; idiotic; brutal. Idiotic manner doesn’t care whether she dies or not. Wants nothing to do with anybody. Delirium. Dementia. Frightful visions and terrifying hallucinations. Stupor alternating with dangerous violence. Insensible with the convulsions. Vertigo – when he/she rises up; tendency to fall backward. Confusion in head. Headache. Wants to lie with the head low. Congestion of the brain and spinal cord.

Causticum

Hallucination. Does not want to go to bed alone. Least thing makes cry. Sad, hopeless. Intensely sympathetic. Ailments from long-lasting grief, sudden emotions. Dementia. Thinking of complaints, aggravates, especially hemorrhoids. Delirium. Sensation of empty space between forehead and brain. Pain in right frontal eminence.

Hyoscymaus Niger

Hallucination. Disturbed nervous system. It is as if some diabolical force took possession of the brain and prevented its functions. Mania of a quarrelsome and obscene character. Inclined to be unseemly and immodest in acts, gestures and expressions. Very talkative, and persists in stripping herself, or uncovering genitals. Is jealous, afraid of being poisoned, etc. Its symptoms also point to weakness and nervous agitation – Alzheimer’s disease. Tremulous weakness and twitching of tendons. Subsultus tendinum. Muscular twitchings, spasmodic affections, generally with delirium. Non-inflammatory cerebral activity. Toxic gastritis. Very suspicious. Obscene, lascivious mania uncovers body; jealous, foolish. Great hilarity; inclined to laugh at everything. Delirium, with attempt to run away. Dementia. Low, muttering speech; constant carphologia, deep stupor.

Head feels light and confused. Vertigo as if intoxicated. Brain feels loose, fluctuating. Inflammation of brain, with unconsciousness; head is shaken to and fro. Alzheimer’s disease.

Conium Maculatum

Stabbing pains. Weak spells; faintness; sudden loss of strength while walking. Paroxysms of hysteria and hypochondriasis from abstinence from sexual intercourse. Hallucination. Photophobia; ptosis. When turning in bed (vertigo) moving the head ever so little; turning head sideways. In the dark, from letting the affected limb hang down; from moving; when walking; by stooping. Aversion to open air. Desire for warmth. Apoplexy with paralysis (in old people). Falling off of the hair.

Alumina

Low spirited; fears loss of reason. Confused as to personal identity. Hallucination. Hasty, hurried. Time passes slowly. Variable mood. Better as day advances. Suicidal tendency when seeing knife or blood. Alzheimer’s disease. Dementia. Stitching burning pain in head, with vertigo relieved by food. Pressure in forehead. Inability to walk closed eyes. Throbbing headache, with constipation. Vertigo, with nausea; better after breakfast. Falling out of hair; scalp itches and is numb.

Rauwolfia Serpentina

Melancholia include are Abasement. Abuser. Abjection. Abjectness. Bleakness. Bummer. Cheerlessness. Delirium. Dejection. Desolation. Desperation. Dementia. Despondency. Disconsolation. Hallucination. Discouragement. Dispiritedness. Distress. Dole. Dolor. Dreariness. Dullness. Dumps. Ennui. Gloom. Gloominess. Hopelessness. Lowness. Melancholy. Misery. Mortification. Qualm. Sadness. Sorrow. Trouble. Unhappiness. Vapors. Woefulness. Worry. Downheartedness. Dolefulness. Blue Funk. Blahs. Heaviness of Heart and Lugubrious. Paranoia. Paranoia. Alzheimer’s disease.

Vicum Album

Incoherent talk and spectral illusions; inclined to be violent. Insensibility. Stupor, succeeded by almost entire insensibility, lying motionless, with eyes closed, as if in a sound sleep, but easily roused by a loud noise, and then would answer any question, but when he/she relapsed into his/her former condition there was a slight disposition to stertorous breathing. Dementia. Hallucination. Feels as if going to do something dreadful while the trembling is on. Delirium. Keeps waking in night thinking the most horrible things imaginable. If awake seemed to be dreaming, if asleep she was dreaming. Felt in bad temper. Great depression.

Giddiness. Intense throbbing headache. Sharp pain in head and face. Numb feeling in head. Tightening sensation of the brain once or twice. Sharp shooting in occipital bone.

Lac Caninum

Very forgetful; in writing, makes mistakes. Hallucination. Despondent; thinks her disease incurable. Attacks of rage. Visions of snakes. Dementia. Thinks himself of little consequence. Alzheimer’s disease. Sensation of walking or floating in the air. Pain first one side, then the other. Blurred vision, nausea and vomiting at height of attack of headache. Delirium. Occipital pain, with shooting extending to forehead. Sensation as if brain were alternately contracted and relaxed. Noises in ears. Reverberation of voice.

Medorrhinum

Severe disturbance and irritability of nervous system. Dwarfed and stunted. State of collapse and trembling all over. History of sycosis. Dementia. Alzheimer’s disease. Delirium. Intensity of all sensations. Weak memory. Loses the thread of conversation. Cannot speak without weeping. Time passes too slowly. Hallucination. Is in a great hurry. Hopeless of recovery. Difficult concentration. Fears going insane. Sensibility exalted. Nervous, restless. Fear in the dark and of some one behind her. Melancholy, with suicidal thoughts. Burning pain in brain; worse, occiput. Head heavy and drawn backward. Headache from jarring of cars, exhaustion, or hard work. Weight and pressure in vertex.

Macinela

Silent mood, sadness. Wandering thoughts. Sudden vanishing of thought. Bashful. Dementia. Hallucination. Fear of becoming insane. Delirium. Vertigo: head feels lights, empty. Scalp itches. Hair falls out after acute sickness. Fear: of getting crazy; of evil spirits. Alzheimer’s disease. Averse to work and answering questions. Sadness. Anxiety; before menses. Homesick. Bashful and taciturn; timid look.

Datura Metel

soporose condition, and later delirium and spasms. The soporose state may be absent. Delirium may be vociferous, or merely garrulous. Patient usually manifests excessive timidity. Picks at real or imaginary objects. Performs ridiculous antics. Several movements appear due to perverted vision, and inability to judge distances. After the delirium, patient remembers nothing of what has occurred. Extreme dilatation of pupils. Flickering before eyes with photophobia. Pulse and temperature undergo extremes of exaltation and depression. Alzheimer’s disease. Convulsions. Delirium. Epilepsy. Eye affections. Mania. Timidity. Dementia.

Aethusa Cynapium

Incapacity to think; confused. Loss of comprehension. Idiocy, in some cases alternating with furor. Hallucination. Great anxiety and restlessness, followed by violent pains in head and abdomen. Dementia. Bad humour; irritability. Irritability, especially in the afternoon, and in the open air. Delirium: sees cats and dogs; tries to jump out of the window. Loquacious gaiety.

Confused; brain feels bound up. Vertigo, with sleepiness, can’t raise the head. Headache in whole front part of head. Sensation, as if both sides of the head were in a vice. Distressing pains in the occiput, down nape of neck, and spine. Heat rises to the head; the body becomes warmer; the face becomes red, and the giddiness ceases. Stitches and pulsations in the head. Can’t hold head up or sit up. Sensation as if constantly pulled by the hair.

Argentum Metallicum

Restlessness – which forces him to walk quickly. Ill-humor and aversion to talking. When pleased, excessively merry, but cries a long time about a trifle. Hallucination. Dementia. Delirium (mania; after epilepsy). Dullness, and sensation of emptiness in the head. Dizziness, with obscurity of vision, or with drowsiness, and falling of the eyelids. Migraine. Compression in the brain, with nausea and burning in the epigastrium, on reading and stooping for any time.

Argentum Nitricum

The neurotic effects of Argentum Nitricum are very marked, many brain and spinal symptoms presenting, head symptoms often determine the choice of this remedy. Symptoms of incoordination, loss of control and want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically, trembling in affected parts. Dementia. Hallucination. Alzheimer’s disease. Gastroenteritis. Great desire for sweets, the splinter-like pains, and free muco-purulent discharge in the inflamed and ulcerated mucous membranes. Sensation as if a part were expanding and other errors of perception are characteristic.

Withered up and dried constitutions present a favorable field for its action, especially when associated with unusual or long continued mental exertion. Pains increase and decrease gradually. Flatulent state and prematurely aged look. Explosive belching especially in neurotics. Upper abdominal infections brought on by undue mental exertion. Paraplegia Myelitis and disseminated sclerosis of brain and cord. Intolerance of heat. Sensation of a sudden pinch. Destroyed red blood corpuscles – anemia.

Thinks his understanding will and must fail. Fearful and nervous; impulse to jump out of window. Faintish and tremulous. Melancholic; apprehensive of serious disease. Time passes slowly. Memory weak. Errors of perception. Impulsive; wants to do things in a hurry. Peculiar mental impulses. Fears and anxieties and hidden irrational motives for actions. Delirium.

Headache with coldness and trembling. Emotional disturbances cause appearance of hemi cranial attacks. Sense of expansion. Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling. Headache from mental exertion, from dancing. Vertigo, with buzzing in ears and with nervous affections. Aching in frontal eminence, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye. Boring pain; better on tight bandaging and pressure. Itching of scalp. Hemicrania; bones of head feel as if separated.

Arsenicum Album

Hallucination. Melancholy, sometimes of a religious character, sadness, care, chagrin, cries and complaints. Anguish. Restlessness. Great fear of being left alone. Anger, with anxiety, restlessness and sensation of coldness. Anxiety of conscience, as if a crime had been committed. Inconsolable anguish, with complaints and lamentation. Hypochondriacal humor. Fear of solitude, of specters, and of robbers, with desire to hide oneself. Indecision and changeable humor, which demands this at one time, that at another, and rejects everything after having obtained it. Despair: he finds no rest with anguish. Despondency, despair, weariness of life, inclination to suicide, or excessive fear of death, which is sometimes believed to be very near. Dementia.

Too great sensibility and scrupulousness of conscience, with gloomy ideas, as if one had offended all the world. Ill-humor, impatience, vexation, inclination to be angry, repugnance to conversation, inclination to criticize, and great susceptibility. Caustic and jesting spirit. Extreme sensibility of all the organs; all noise, conversation, and clear lights are insupportable. Great apathy and indifference. Great weakness of memory. Delirium. Stupidity and dullness. Delirium, with great flow of ideas. Loss of consciousness, and of sensation; dotage; maniacal actions and frenzy. Madness; loss of mind (from the abuse of alcoholic drinks).

Heaviness, sensation of weakness, and confusion in the head. Vertigo on shutting the eyes, on walking, or in the open air, and sometimes with tottering, with danger of falling, intoxication, loss of sense, obscuration of the eyes, nausea, and headache. Tearing in the head, with vomiting, when raising up the head. Cracking or buzzing in the head. Excessive swelling of the head and face. Erysipelatous burning, swelling of the head (face and genitals) with great weakness and coldness.

Cannabis Indica

A condition of intense exaltation, in which all perceptions and conceptions, all sensations and all emotions are exaggerated to the utmost degree.

Subconscious or dual nature state; Dual personality disorder. Dementia. Apparently under the control of the second self, but, the original self, prevents the performance of acts which are under the domination of the second self. Apparently the two natures cannot act independently, one acting as a check, upon the other. Delirium.

Most remarkable hallucinations and imaginations, exaggeration of the duration of time and extent of space. Conception of time, space and place is gone. Extremely happy and contented, nothing troubles. Ideas crowd upon each other. Epilepsy, mania, dementia, delirium tremens, and irritable reflexes. Exophthalmic goiter. Catalepsy. Alzheimer’s disease.

Excessive loquacity; exuberance of spirits. Constantly theorizing. Anxious depression; constant fear of becoming insane. Mania must constantly move. Very forgetful; cannot finish sentence. Is lost in delicious thought. Uncontrollable laughter. Delirium tremens. Clairvoyance. Emotional excitement; rapid change of mood. Cannot realize her identity, chronic vertigo as of floating off. Feels as if top of head were opening and shutting and as if calvarium were being lifted. Shocks through brain. Uremic headache with flatulence. Involuntary shaking of head. Migraine attack preceded by unusual excitement with loquacity.

Ignatia Amara

Hyperesthesia of all senses. Hallucination. Mentally, the emotional element is uppermost, and co-ordination of function is interfered with. It is one of the chief remedies for hysteria. Dementia. Nervous temperament-women of sensitive, easily excited nature, dark, mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution. Rapid change of mental and physical condition, opposite to each other. Alzheimer’s disease. Delirium. Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling patients who suffer acutely in mind or body, at the same time. Effects of grief and worry. Cannot bear tobacco. Pain is small, circumscribed spots. The plague. Hiccough and hysterical vomiting.

Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding. Melancholic, sad, tearful. Not communicative. Sighing and sobbing. Aftershocks, grief, disappointment. Head feels hollow, heavy; worse, stooping. Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side. Cramp-like pain over root of nose. Congestive headaches following anger or grief; worse, smoking or smelling tobacco, inclines head forward.

Coca

Melancholy. Hypochondriasis. Mental depression with drowsiness. Bashfulness. Prefers solitude and darkness. Alzheimer’s disease. Muddled feeling in brain. Loss of energy. Dementia. Hallucination. Great mental excitement. Delirium. Vertigo and fainting. Tension over forehead. Headache just over eyebrows. Shocks in head; dull, full feeling in occiput with vertigo, the only possible position is on the face.

Kali Phosphoricum

One of the greatest nerve medicines. Prostration. Weak and tired. Marked disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system. Conditions arising from want of nerve power, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression. Hallucination. Alzheimer’s disease. The causes are usually excitement, overwork and worry. Adynamic and decay, gangrenous conditions. Suspected malignant tumors. After removal of cancer when in healing process skin is drawn tight over the wound. Delayed labor.

Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy. Indisposition to meet people. Extreme lassitude and depression. Very nervous, starts easily, irritable. Dementia. Brain-fag; hysteria; night terrors. Somnambulance. Delirium. Loss of memory. Slightest labor seems a heavy task. Great despondency about business. Shyness; disinclined to converse.

Occipital headache. Vertigo, from lying on standing up, from sitting, and when looking upward. Cerebral anemia. Headache of students, and those worn out by fatigue. Headaches are relieved by gentle motion. Headache, with weary, empty, gone feeling at stomach.

Aurum Metallicum

Feeling of self-condemnation and utter worthlessness. Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and thoughts of suicide. Talks of committing suicide. Fear of death. Hallucination. Peevish and vehement at least contradiction. Delirium. Alzheimer’s disease. Dementia. Anthropophobia. Mental derangements. Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply. Cannot do things fast enough. Over sensitiveness; to noise, excitement, confusion.

Violent pain in head; worse at night, outward pressure. Roaring in head. Vertigo. Tearing through brain to forehead. Pain in bones extending to face. Congestion to head. Boils on scalp.

Nux Moschata

Tendency to fainting fits, with heart failure. Cold extremities, extreme dryness of mucous membranes and skin. Strange feeling, with irresistible drowsiness. Indicanuria. General inclination to become unconscious during acute attacks. Alzheimer’s disease. Lypothymia. Staggers on trying to walk. Hallucination.

Delirium. Mind changeable; laughing and crying. Confused, impaired memory. Dementia. Bewildered sense, as in a dream. Thinks she has two heads. Vertigo when walking in open air; aches from eating a little too much. Feeling of expansion, with sleepiness. Pulsating in head. Cracking sensation in head. Sensitive to slightest touch in a draught of air. Bursting headache; better hard pressure.

How can I help someone who is experiencing a hallucination?

If you’re with someone who’s experiencing a hallucination, there are some steps you should take:

• Assess the situation and determine if the hallucination is a problem for the person or you. If the hallucination upsets them or leads them to do something dangerous, react calmly and quickly with reassuring words and a comforting touch.
• Don’t argue with the person about what they’re experiencing. If their behavior in response to their hallucination isn’t dangerous, you may not need to intervene.
• Avoid trying to reason with the person experiencing a hallucination. You can say you don’t see what your loved one is seeing, but some people find it more calming to acknowledge what the person is seeing to minimize stress. For example, if the person sees a dog in the room, it may be more helpful to say, “I’ll take the dog out,” rather than arguing that there’s no dog.

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