HALLUCINATIONS

It is a false sensory perceptions or perceptual experiences that do not exist in reality.

• Auditory Hallucination – it is the most common type involving the hearing sounds or voices. There may be one or multiple voices talking to or about to client. There are voices commanding that the client take an action, may harm themselves or others so-called COMMAND HALLUCINATIONS. It is dangerous and client must be watch closely.
• Visual Hallucination – it involves seeing images that do not exist at all. Only the client can see it. The client may saw a monster, light, persons, dead people, etc.
• Olfactory Hallucination – involves the sense of smell.
• Tactile Hallucination – it refers to the sensations that commonly found most often in clients undergoing alcohol withdrawal.
• Gustatory Hallucination – involves a taste lingering in the mouth or the sense that food tastes like something else.
• Cenesthetic Hallucination – involves the client’s report that he or she feels bodily functions that are usually undetectable.
• Kinesthetic Hallucination – the client reports sensation of bodily movement but the client is not moving at all. Common example is being floating above the ground.

Illusions are different from hallucination. The difference between illusion and hallucination is that illusions are misperceptions of actual environmental stimuli while hallucinations false perception that have no stimuli or basis in reality. In illusion, there is a stimulus that the client perceived this differently. Example is a person thinks he sees a monster walking along the dark street. But on closer look, it is just a man.