RE: Nevermind
March 19, 2012 at 9:55 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2012 at 9:58 pm by Jackalope.)
(March 19, 2012 at 9:00 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: You can hallucinate anything if you are mental enough.
You don't even have to be mental.
Hypnagogic hallucinations are quite common even in those that aren't suffering from any kind of clinical mental illness.
Most of the time the sensations are fairly subtle, but I had one event that could have been mistaken for an "alien abduction" type event, if not for the fact that a) my bed partner witnessed nothing happening other than my reaction, and b) after the fact, I was aware of what had really transpired.
Then again, I'm mad as a hatter - but it's worth noting that at the time, I was otherwise asymptomatic, and my illness does not usually feature realistic hallucinations. My therapist and shrink both concluded it was hypnagogia, and unrelated.
Ever been awake but sleepy and closed your eyes and "seen" something that appeared to be similar to looking through a kaleidoscope (or anything else that wasn't the insides of your eyelids)? That's a form of hypnagogia.
(March 19, 2012 at 9:02 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote:(March 19, 2012 at 8:59 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: And u smart guys should know the DSM-IV recognizes said experiences as religious and not subject to any mental disorder.....
And Phil no I've done the whole mmpi2 sha-bang, no such diagnosis
A lot of people would argue that religious experiences are mental delusions suffered by mentally ill (and also religious) people.
They aren't recognized as illness in and of themselves in the DSM-IV, other features have to be present. Which, I note, some of our visitors seem to exhibit.
@Hunter9035: The results of the MMPI don't really mean shit in terms of a diagnosis. It's one tool.
