More often than not hallucinations are threatening negative experiences. But they can be constructive and instructive. Most often ough the patient hasn't the foggiest notion of what is occurring to him. He is confused and bewildered by these odd sights, sounds, sensations if he is able to recognize them as foreign to himself. In many cases the patient owns these experiences and thus there is little of what he knows of himself left.
Most hallucinations involve the total person physical, mental, and spiritual.
Everything is intensified and takes on intent and meaning. The thought process transforms or converts to another sphere of consciousness where meaning or significance is perceived or felt in everything in awareness of the patient, real or imagined. The patient feels or thinks he has taken on special perceptions and sensitivities not common to most, and there is physical evidence that this is the case, at least to the patient. He can hold conversations with others through telepathy, for instance, and the other person responds as would be expected if the person heard him. Many times they are accompanied by strong impluses to act out the conclusion reached by the experience of a particular hallucination.