# Have you ever had a hallucination?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 10, 2011, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-had-a-hallucination/588498 "2011-07-10T10:49:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-had-a-hallucination/588498/41 "2011-07-17T12:08:44Z")

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> [@moejoe](#):
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> When my mother was recovering from surgery she became convinced that her hospital room wasn’t real, but was a very clever fake and that she had been kidnapped. She truly believed that the entire room and everything in it was actually made out of paper. She thought the doctors and nurses were all fake too, and she was terrified to let on that she’d figured it out.
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> It wasn’t until months later that she shared this with me, and when I asked her why she hadn’t told me at the time she said she thought I was her fake daughter coming to “visit” her everyday. She didn’t tell me because she thought I was one of them.
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> It turns out this was a side effect of the medications and it did wear off, but it makes me sad that she spent that time so scared and with no one to trust to help her.

When my elderly father had pneumonia he was convinced that burgulars had broken into the house and replaced all his possesions with fakes. On the phone he carefully explained to me that while there still was a television it wasn’t _his_ television and so on. It was a terrifying conversation for me as I initially believed there had been a burgulary but it soon became apparent that the story made no sense at all. Luckily Dad’s neighbours had called in my brother and the doctor before he insisted on phoning me. Later on in the same illness he told us that aliens had visited the close and given presents to all the neighbours but he hadn’t got any. Poor Dad.

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