The topic of the causes of hallucinations should immediately begin with information obtained by scientists as a result of the experiment they have put. So, its participants were twelve mentally healthy people. Each of them for a short time was alone in a special room, blocking sounds and images that could have come from outside. As a result, the part reported that they seemed to be human faces, the rest - movements of incomprehensible objects. This experiment shows that hallucinations are inherent not only to those who suffer from mental illness or abuse alcohol, but to every average healthy person.
It should be noted that the main causes of hallucinations can be:
- a strong fright;
- influence of stress factors;
- the heat of passion;
- the effect of chemicals on the human psyche.
Causes of olfactory hallucinations
As a result of olfactory hallucinations, people complain about the ammonia taste of food or the smell of decomposition from it. True, it also happens that they feel the aroma of tulips, which he remembered from the very childhood. The main causes of such disorders are craniocerebral injuries, tumors, nasal mucosa lesions, pathological processes, schizophrenia .
Causes of visual hallucinations
Often this kind of hallucinations is actively manifested in the evening and night. They make themselves felt, as a result of malignant brain formations, alcohol abuse, psychosis transmission of intoxication and infectious types, vascular lesions in the brain, tranquilizers, antidepressants, some antibiotics, steroids, painkillers.
Causes of auditory hallucinations
Auditory hallucinations, sounding inside of you, can be your usual thoughts, voiced by you, having a verbal look. If it seems that the voices sound, both in the head and in reality, it can be the consequences of a mental, nervous illness. It is possible that such hallucinations are caused by consumed alcohol, overdose
Causes of tactile hallucinations
Tactile hallucinations are a kind of delusional psychosis . Happen in schizophrenia, organic and endogenous psychoses. Most often, they concern people over 60 years of age and mostly females. They can be caused by somatic diseases, cardiovascular ailments.