Delirium Primordial

Delusion of the primordial type is a state of a person when it seems to him that he is in a situation from the past that is happening now. Such experiences can last from a few minutes to several hours and include illusions, sensations and memories from different periods of a person's life. It is not associated with mental disorders and is often

Primordial delirium - (from the Latin primordialis - initial, original).

In medicine, this condition is known as a hallucinatory-paranoid phenomenon, and in psychology - as a delusional perception of the world. Its essence lies in the fact that the patient inadequately perceives reality and creates his own world based on his ideas and fantasies, sometimes grotesquely distorted. A person’s primary perception of the surrounding world occurs and it is connected with the individual characteristics of his psyche. Some researchers believe that this is the basic human ability to perceive the world around us. This term originated in antiquity and means the primary world order. It is formed taking into account how the individual perceives his place in it.

Delirium consists of several components. The main ones are hallucinations and hallucinatory perception. The simplest manifestation of delusion is an illusion when a person, for example, sees a dark object against a light background, which exists in itself, but is not perceived. In the case of hallucinatory perception, a person sees a certain object and, with its help, builds his own virtual world, which is filled with various elements. In other words, delusional perception is based on absolutely real objects, which become an instrument of their creativity. As a result, the delusional world begins to exist separately from reality. At the same time, it can be very developed in spatial terms and often has a messianic character. Should be considered,