I have been said to hallucinate. Now what if hallucinations were a fragment of reality?

Question

What proof there is that it isn't?

Answer 1

Any experience is part of reality as that perception is the only way we can know, feel, sense, the world. For instance the Native American idea of a Vision Quest and Animal Guides may efffect how you decide to react to a certain situation. While this could be explained away as the mind using imagination to project an animal speaking for your subconcious if you allow yourself to be guided by these revelations then it is real (even in the so called objective world) because it has a real impact on you and how you act in the world.

If your hallucinations are insulting you, making comment on your every move, telling you people are out to get you and/or telling you to harm your self or others then it is a mental health issue and should be addressed. This is not to say that this isn't happening in some reality (your perception) but I would hope it's a reality you don't want and medications and therapy can be effective in stopping/blocking these perceptions.

When people say the objective world they mean the shared world that people have collectively agreed upon as having some shared meaning. For instance no matter what part of reality you may be in tune in you still can't drive 70 miles per hour through a school zone without risking getting a ticket. People have decided together to create laws and act as if those laws were real. If you think laws are real ask yourself if a law can be changed by man and if a rock can be changed into a frog by man. However, you have to exist in the reality that is agreed to by the majority.

Michael John Weaver, M.S.

Answer 2

Then I must say that it comes down to the Descartes proclamation of " I think, therefore I am". You think, you can feel, you sense things, therefore you can make the assumption that indeed you exist. The same applies to your hallucinations. Can  you feel them? Can you sense them as readily and hardily as all other physical aspects in your reality? Than yes, they are a fragment of your reality, because you experience them as real. This is also a result of the Thomas Theorem that if situations are defined as real, they become real in their consequences...and this is regardless of anyone else's scope of reality and whether they define your situations as part of their reality or not and besides, everyone has their own scope of reality anyway and what might be real to one person, might not be real to another, yet both people reap the consequences of their beliefs which make them all the more a reality to that person. So in other words, it cannot be proven or disproved in a sense, to everyone. It depends on the consequences relative to you :D (I'm a soc. and psychology major in my freshman yr, all the stuff they teach us is still a bit fresh on my mind lol. and it's seriously mind blowing stuff...maybe you should  check out a few soc. books, i think you'd be interested).

This was a really interesting question. Thanks for putting it up here. I love mind digging questions like these. :)

Answer 3

There isn't any proof that it isn't, it's just that there is no proof that it is. Which means that I would neither dismiss it nor believe it, but I would doubt it.

If you think that your hallucinations are real, then that's fine. Your choice, not mine, so I have no need or reason to try to convince you either that they are real or fake. Good luck with that though. Don't deceive yourself in either direction.

Answer 4

stay off the crack Shawn!

Answer 5

What if they are trying to tell you something.Could be messages just you understand.Somtimes they might come in dreams too.

Answer 6

profound revelations are a symptom of reality . far out , man .

Answer 7

Reality is a hallucination and to hallucinate is a figment of reality????

Answer 8

yep ,you are in control of your own realities

Answer 9

Who told you this? A therapist? A doctor? Your psychiatrist?

If you are a diagnosed schizophrenic take your meds!

You need to function in this reality?

If you think your doctor has subscribed you too high a dosage talk to him or her about seeing if you can cope with a lower dosage.

If by hallucinate you just mean you have a very active imagination take up drawing or painting?

If you're doing drugs stop it now!

If you think you may be psychic take up a meditation technique that strengthens your ability to focus so your psychic flashes arent hindering your ability to cope with this reality?

Stay balanced!!!

Answer 10

hallucinations are subjective. reality is ABJECTIVE. aka if you experience it but it can not be experienced by anyone else in the same circumstances then sorry it's not reality. (yes there are some difficulties with both quantum mechanics and relativity in this context except for the 'same situation' part which fixes everything from a physics point of view even if it makes the subject that much more 'mysterious' even though it is not for the laymen to understand)

Answer 11

I wouldn't know what to think. Trying to see the world from many perspectives has utterly bewildered me. I believe there are things that are meant to be understood and there are things that aren't. Everything happens for a reason, and all I can suggest is to keep an open mind.