The Hallucinatory Experience

Visual, Tactile, and Phobic Hallucinations: Recognition and Management in the Emergency Department

“…These demographic data are similar to those reported in the psychiatric literature. [8][9][10] Every child experienced the onset of hallucinations at night, although the events were not hypnagogic. Additional characteristics were that they were visual and tactile and of limited duration; ie, days or weeks, not months.…”

“…9,10,13-15 Although some authors have reported that children in this age range cannot articulate experiences of altered perceptions, patients in this study were able to express their tactile-visual hallucinations and resultant fears to the treating physicians. 8,12 The treating physicians of these patients, through conversations with the parents and children and personal observation, concluded that they were not having command auditory hallucinations.…”