I was reading a fellow bloggers post about a patient who was hallucinating. She tried to help him, but he was beyond help. Whatever he was seeing terrified him. It's gonna stick to him after all this is over. The fear generated by hallucinations is more powerful than reality. This is the hard part to explain. It's not a dream.
I honestly believe that hallucinations during a recovery are the brains way of protecting itself. I believe the organ detects a crisis and tries to save itself or explain its situation to itself by creating an alternate reality that will support it. (Example: When I first started coming out I tried to talk. I had no language abilities. They put me back down. The next time I came up I hallucinated that my languages were being fed into me from a wire recorder commonly used in the cold war. First english, then italian, german, and even fragments of other languages I had picked up. The oddity was that both the spool and the "me" were seen in the third person. I perceived both source and target as entities not me, even though "me" was the target.
He said he had no face. Does this mean that the part of the brain involved in facial recognition has been damaged?
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