Hallucinations are mental disorders that result in a person experiencing illusions of perception. In particular, a hallucination is:
1. perception of sensations without a real object from which they would be directed; 2. unrealistic perception of existing objects; 3. experiencing any distorted sensory elements that influence the process of perception and determine the body’s further reaction to them.
Hallucinations are divided into several types depending on the duration of their manifestation:
• permanent - duration exceeds 3 weeks; • short-term - duration from 1-3 days to several hours; • episodic (episodic pathological hallucinations) - occurs extremely rarely and is observed for no more than 7 days; • periodic - observed exclusively during night or daytime sleep. Separately, stable hallucinosis is distinguished. This is the appearance of illusions in the form of stable images, which do not exist in reality. For example: “The bat is in the corner of the room” or “I walked past the door