https://www.reddit.com/r/schizophrenia/comments/vbuty5/schizophrenics_who_have_bad_eyesight_can_you/
created by yestermorrowWW3 on 14/06/2022 at 04:09 UTC
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This question was inspired by episode one of the new season of stranger things, I’m not gonna spoil anything, but there’s a part where someone with glasses basically hallucinates something. And during it, he drops his glasses and puts them back on. But like, if that was all happening in his head, then why does he need his glasses to see it? Can he still see it without his glasses? Or is it blurry? What if his glasses were off and he didn’t notice, would it still be blurry?
So basically I decided to ask people who really experience hallucinations. Do you have blurry hallucinations with your glasses off and clear ones with your glasses on? Do clear hallucinations become blurry when you take your glasses off, or vice versa. Or do they just stay the same. Is it almost like a litmus test as to wether something is real or a hallucination?
Comment by goatslayer at 14/06/2022 at 04:34 UTC
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Sometimes, my blurry vision creates the conditions for hallucinations. If I'm too far to see someone's face, my mind make sure to make me think they're staring at me.
One time I was walking down the street when I come across a baby elephant. For like 2 seconds, I froze. Once my vision corrected as I started walking towards it, I realized it was an overturned garbage bin.
Comment by [deleted] at 14/06/2022 at 04:57 UTC*
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Yes, they actually get worse without my glasses. The blurry vision makes it easier to hallucinate. I've never taken my glasses off, because visual hallucinations don't last too long, but without them the hallucinations are blurry too. It's like your mind is morphing what it sees into something else.
Comment by rosesrisingrapidly at 15/06/2022 at 00:45 UTC
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Yes. Its actually something I use to figure out hallucinations when they are farther away from me. Hallucinations are always clear, no matter if the other stuff at the same distance is blurry. Its one of the few things not having perfect is good for I guess