Comment by Heselwood on 04/02/2025 at 21:28 UTC*

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View submission: do people with schizophrenia who also need glasses see their hallucinations clear or blurry when not wearing glasses?

I have schizophrenia and mine are clear with as well as without glasses. I've lived with it for almost 20 years now, and my hallucinations still scare me every time. I see like behind the faces of real people as if they were just wearing masks. And I see their real faces. I know it is not real, but I don't believe it. But my best buddies are those people only I can see. Having this for a long time I am still stunned sometimes how other people don't see them. And they are always evil. I can even feel them coming before I see them. They pump fear into me. But I have learned to act normal in public. At home it is a different story.

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Comment by amakai at 04/02/2025 at 21:29 UTC

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Is it possible to use this as a clue on if the hallucination is real? Or is detachment from reality too high for hallucinations to apply logical reasoning to them?

Comment by ___po____ at 04/02/2025 at 22:32 UTC*

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At-home hallucinations are so muh worse for sure. I think maybe because they are invading my personal safe space, and that's what makes it worse. I have this one hallucination of a older creepy woman that is peeking through my windows. She was at my psychiatrist's office that had a window too but I couldn't look directly at her, just in my peripherals. Felt safer there for no damn reason.

I have some crazy good luck as my hallucinations aren't evil. Just creepy-ish looking. My schizophrenia gave me what I call Ghost Cat, too! It's always just outta view, going around corners or trying to trip me up in a darker room or hallway, lol. The only bad part is that I have a black cat irl, too. So sometimes when Ghost Cat is fully visible at night, in my pitch black room, I reach out to pet, what I assume, is my actual cat but it disappears..

Sorry to rant!

Edit: Spelling. My bad.

Comment by lost_all_my_mirth at 04/02/2025 at 21:39 UTC

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Sounds a bit like the movie They Live.

Comment by r4ksu at 04/02/2025 at 21:29 UTC

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well that's an easy way to differentiate what's real and what's not, just take off your glasses

Comment by hereforthestaples at 04/02/2025 at 21:41 UTC

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There was a podcast I heard about prosopometamorphopsia (PMO) and the detail really painted a picture of a tortured existence. I'm starting to imagine a fraction of what your reality might be like.

Comment by koyaani at 05/02/2025 at 00:55 UTC

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How bad is your vision? I'm basically blind without my contacts or glasses, so having a visual hallucination be in focus while everyone and everything else are fuzzy blobs would seem more disturbing than if they matched my uncorrected vision

Comment by dancingpianofairy at 05/02/2025 at 09:18 UTC

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That sounds fucking terrifying, I'm so sorry! Anything us non-schizophrenics can do or should know?