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Childhood hallucinations are surprisingly common – but why? * 1
    #21781335 - 06/08/15 11:45 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/07/childhood-hallucinations-common-research-psychotic-schizophrenia-why

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‘It turns out that children with make-believe friends tend to have better social skills.’

Vaughan Bell
Sunday 7 June 2015 06.30 BST

Childhood has long been championed as a time for make-believe, but recent research has found that another form of unreality – hallucinations – is more common in children than we previously imagined. For years, kids’ accounts of seeing, hearing and experiencing things that weren’t really there were considered to be part of the same invented world – an “overactive imagination”; a “fantasy world”. The Alice in Wonderland approach, perhaps. But as it was recognised that hallucinations can be reliably identified in children, science has begun to look at why these illusory experiences are many times more common during our early years.

Hallucinations often reflect a bizarre, blurry version of our realities and because play is an everyday reality for children, the content can seem similar. Both can contain quirky characters, strange scenarios and inspire curious behaviour. One child described how he saw a wolf in the house, another that he had “Yahoos” living inside him that ate all his medicine. On the surface, these could just as easily be a child’s whimsy, but genuine hallucinations have a very different flavour. “In play and make-believe, children are imagining,” says Elena Garralda, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Imperial College London. “They do not have the actual perceptual experience of seeing and hearing.” Another key difference, notes Garralda, is that “hallucinations feel imposed and children cannot exercise a direct control over them”.

Recent studies have thrown up some surprising statistics about how common they are. One UK study found that almost two-thirds of children reported having at least one “psychotic-like experience” in their lives, a category that also includes unshiftable and unrealistic beliefs and fears. When focusing purely on hallucinations, a review of research found that 17% of 9-12-year-olds have these experiences at any one time. The number roughly halves in teenagers and drops again in adults. Since this type of research tends to focus on experiences that are selected because they can appear in mental health problems in adults, such as hearing voices, which are only a small part of the possible range of hallucinations, these figures are likely to be a low estimate.

It is interesting that hallucinations become less common as we move towards adulthood. Because very young children are more difficult to test and haven’t been studied as widely, it’s not clear whether we start out in a more hallucinatory world, which becomes increasingly stable as we age, or whether middle childhood is a peak time for unreal experiences. For all its reputation for causing emotional mayhem, puberty might be a stabilising force on our perceptions.

At this point, let’s just take a breather – a sanity check if you will – because a lot of people get worried when they think about the possibility of their child hallucinating. These figures don’t mean that if a child is having a hallucination that they are ill or unwell. In the majority of cases, children’s hallucinations disappear within a few days or weeks and are not a cause for concern. Childhood hallucinations are often sparked by life stresses, poor sleep and periods of low mood that fade when the difficult situations do. If the hallucinations are upsetting or persistent, however, it may be time to ask for a professional assessment.

Renaud Jardri has seen many children with hallucinations in his clinical practice and also researches the area as part of his role as a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Lille University school of medicine. The criteria, he says, for judging whether a child needs professional support are whether the hallucinations are “frequent, complex, distressing and cause impairment”. For Jardri, hallucinations that are associated with positive emotions and don’t interfere with the child’s friendships and family life are usually benign.

In rare cases, medical problems can be the cause. Epilepsy can cause hallucinations, as can sleep disorders that affect consciousness and lead to the dream world invading the waking hours. For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, severe psychosis, represented by diagnoses such as schizophrenia, is extremely rare in young children. But when such conditions occur, the hallucinations can be both striking and terrifying. The six-year-old who described having Yahoos living inside him was one of these rare cases; he heard them constantly speak to him, feared being poisoned, believed he could cast spells, smelt “bugs” in the tap water and saw nonexistent trails in the snow. This is a far from the common fear of “monsters under the bed” or isolated hallucinations that fade over time.

Then there are imaginary friends that are not hallucinations but vivid fantasies, which have been the subject of much adult hand-wringing over the years. Because of this, they have been surprisingly well researched and I am delighted to live in a world where there are genuine imaginary-friend scientists, as if Roald Dahl were alive and funding a research institute. It turns out that children with make-believe companions tend to have better social skills and more developed language abilities than kids who lack imaginary buddies. And neither, the research shows, are these illusory companions a compensation for a lack of real friends. They seem to reflect the child’s brain running in overdrive, expending excess energy, delighting in the limits of imagination and playing with the possibilities of the social world.




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Re: Childhood hallucinations are surprisingly common – but why? [Re: Mostly_Harmless]
    #21781593 - 06/09/15 02:31 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

If you can open all the tabs you can make yourself hallucinate by closing them


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Re: Childhood hallucinations are surprisingly common – but why? [Re: Konyap]
    #21782957 - 06/09/15 12:02 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

What do you mean?


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Re: Childhood hallucinations are surprisingly common – but why? [Re: Mind-Rip]
    #21787119 - 06/10/15 06:59 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

the huge misconception here is the nature of reality itself and the whole idea of hallucination. "Reality" is misconceived to being that which exists where in truth it is what we socially as humans have selected out of ll that exists to be included in our view of the world and how we decided it is proper to be perceived. We teach this to children, the filters on reality are not inherent they are learned as the nature of reality is not inherent to the world or the universe it is social. Children start out without the inventory of what we include in the world we tune into and what is not part of the world we decided not to tune into, Also they do not come with the rules on how we perceive the objects of our world, what to call them what we know about them, what we know about how to deal with them. So they see things we do not include in our reality and they see things we do include in our reality in ways we do not.

    Hallucinations is also a misconceived word, It is thought to mean seeing things that are not there but that is not true they are there somewhere, teh truth is that they are perceptions of something not included in the social order of the world we call reality and or manners of perceiving them tht the social order does not employ. They are REAL! Imaginary friends are REAL! They just are not a part of our world , also with hallucinations it is important to realize that we have been taught long and hard from birth not only what to perceive but how to look at it. So if you perceive something outside of that context you where not necessarily taught how to look at it, meaning how you look at it may lead to a misconception when compared to what you already know, Example, You trip out and see rats crawling on you, These are not really rats you are perceiving something and for some reason you are seeing them as rats, maybe because that is the closest thing they resemble to you and you have a hard time perceiving things in a manner that would let yo know you do not know what you are looking at. Our modern idea of reality and our understanding of the nature of perception of the universe is truly stupid,

  Quantum physics is starting to figure out what stone age shamans new for millenia but even their discoveries are really slow to sink in on a palpable basis, they discover the world is formed by the perception of it and it is not really so much there as a possibility of what is there we happen to tune into and create our world from, and nobody bats an eye. such a discovery requires all schools of science and understanding to dramatically shift it's whole outlook especially psychology and even religion and yet U see very little change so far.


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Re: Childhood hallucinations are surprisingly common – but why? [Re: Lennybernadino]
    #21794099 - 06/11/15 05:41 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

I agree to some extent, to what the poster above me is saying. Also dude, please use more commas. That was the hardest thing I've ever had to read haha. Love
But I think is that drugs show you the truth of your experience. That there are 2 "realities" the one outside and the one inside. The outside one can be touched by other people physically with their hands and seen with their eyes. If we look at a dog, well both see the same dog.
the other is the inner world. The subjective. This is the one science tends to ignore due to not being able to easily test and duplicate because Noone but the experiencer can perceive it. This doesn't make it any less real. It makes it more real to an extent because we are alone with this world and can make it what we want it to be, as long as it makes sense.

Now in children this world is unchecked by the limiting conditions of the social physical world. We don't generally want to be what others will not like, due to us being social creatures. So we change the way we perceive the world based on that. If we make this a habit then we will stop paying as much attention to what is inside and start neglecting the Truth of our experience. This is when you get articles such as this where we stop acknowledging the truth of experience and write it off as possible insanity. Thus fear, self hate, social anxiety, isolation, and rejection of the self as a whole.



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Re: Childhood hallucinations are surprisingly common – but why? [Re: Mind-Rip]
    #21804454 - 06/14/15 12:36 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

It is not just the inside outside thing but real realms that exist outside of the bubble of consensual reality. It is not just imagination or inner dreams, there is a real infinite entire rest of the universe we screen off from our world of permitted reality. We have put up walls with our shared thoughts and called what is inside the walls real and outside not real, this pertains both to internal potential and external foreign realities. Reality, the laws of physics, etc. are not stagnant or fixed but they change over time as we change .


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