Not everyone with schizophrenia has exactly the same symptoms but most people have a combination of both positive and negative ones. The most commonly experienced hallucination is hearing voices. Often a person hears more than one voice at a time. People also have hallucinations where they see, feel, smell or taste something that is not there. Delusions Delusions are beliefs of a paranoid or bizarre nature that are untrue, but believed by the person experiencing them to be very real.
Delusions of grandeur are false beliefs of one's greatness or abilities.
Often schizophrenics believe that they have superhuman powers or that they hold a position of extreme importance in the government. Delusions of persecution are the false beliefs that others are plotting a conspiracy against oneself. Delusions of control are the false beliefs that someone else is controlling one's mind and actions through such means telepathy, radio waves, or radar signals that are detected by receivers implanted in the brain. Schizophrenics often believe that people are inserting or removing ideas or listening to their thoughts. Speech A schizophrenic has great difficulty in organizing their thought and speech patterns.