Visual hallucinations: types
Written and reviewed by Dr Ibrahim Imam, Consultant Neurologist. Last reviewed .
Visual hallucinations: types. This is persistence of visual images. Fully referenced neurology checklist.
Palinopsia
- This is persistence of visual images
- It is caused by drugs and non-dominant hemisphere lesions
Lilliputian
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Brobdingnagian
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Autoscopy
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Hypnogogic and hypnocampic
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Psychedelic
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Passage
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Presence
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Peduncular hallucinosis
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References
- Bhidayasiri R, Waters MF, Giza CC. Neurological Differential Diagnosis. A Prioritized Approach. Blackwell publishing Massachusetts 2005 pp180-181, 190.
- Cohen MA, Alfonso CA, Haque MM. Lilliputian hallucinations and medical illness. Gen Hosp Psychiatry 1994; 16:141-143.
- Podoll K, Robinson D. Recurrent Lilliputian hallucinations as visual aura symptom in migraine. Cephalalgia 2001; 21:990-992.
- Chatterjee SS, Khonglah D, Mitra S, Garg K. Gulliver's world: Persistent lilliputian hallucinations as manifestation of Charles Bonnet syndrome in a case of cataract and normal pressure hydrocephalus. Indian J Psychiatry 2018; 60:358-360.
- Grotstein JS. Autoscopy: the experience of oneself as a double. Hillside J Clin Psychiatry 1983; 5:259-304.
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