Are Hallucinations In The Elderly Made Up Of The Garbled Stuff Of Memory Or Just Imaginings...

[sandyRoe]

...with no base in reality?

[Nibble]

You mean that they're not compulsory .......... Oh thank you ........




Cancel the appointment

[Peaspeculiars]

The most vivid hallucination I've ever had (in hospital) was definitely from memory, and I can remember it vividly. One moment I was talking to my mum, the next I stared past her as a TV 'screen' appeared flat on the floor next to the bed playing a very old Mickey mouse cartoon. There was no sound and it wasn't scary, but it most certainly seemed to be really there (I'd watched the old cartoons as a child) and my mum couldn't figure out what I was laughing at until I explained what I was seeing.
She realised that it was probably the medication I was on and started chuckling too - very strange so it was!

[RATTER15]

Generally imaginations, but this can be contributed to by memories and medication.

Im assuming we are talking about hallucinations in dementia, people with old age wouldn't normally be getting hallucinations unless they were ill, have a UTI or induced by medication.

[sandyRoe]

I think medication must have been playing a part. Soon after she was moved to a hospice.

[Nibble]

Sorry for my post, sandy, I'll request it to be removed. My apologies!

[sandyRoe]

No need to apologise, Nibble, or ask to have the post pulled. The tone of the post changed over the day.

[Peter Pedant]

dont pull it nib-nob

most of mine have had an emotional over-lay of terror

O I didnt tell you of the time I passed a nursing mother and noticed she was breast-feeding a piglet ? I remember being absolutely terrified . Fortral for a broken rib. Fortral is famous for unpleasant hallucinations. Dysphoria as they say in greek. They say you can get addicted to Fortral but my God it takes determination ....

[jennyjoan]

when my mother was hallucinating she kept seeing my sister flying like an angel all over the ward - and another she saw her neighbour man - sitting with his knickers down and she got into a state about that in the same ward.