What are Autoscopic hallucinations?

Autoscopic hallucination is an interesting phenomenon since the past many years but has not been reported much in a clinical setting. It is a psychic visual hallucination in which a person experienced a part or whole body in the external space.

What is Autoscopic?

Autoscopy is thought to be a rare phenomenon in which a person visualizes or experiences a veritable hallucinatory image of his double. It may be more common than has hitherto been thought, however.

What is psychiatry Autoscopy?

Heautoscopy is a term used in psychiatry and neurology for the reduplicative hallucination of “seeing one’s own body at a distance”. It can occur as a symptom in schizophrenia and epilepsy.

What are Lilliputian hallucinations?

Lilliputian hallucinations, also known as microptic or diminutive hallucinations, are tiny human, animal or fantasy figures perceived during wakefulness in the absence of corresponding stimuli from the outside world.

Where does the term autoscopic hallucination come from?

The term derives from the union of the Greek words autos (“self”) and skopeo (“looking at”). The autoscopic phenomenon is classified in the following six tipologies: autoscopic hallucination, he-autoscopy or heautoscopic proper, feeling of a presence, out of body experience, negative and inner forms of autoscopy.

What makes a person have an autoscopic experience?

Cases of autoscopy are commonly encountered in modern psychiatric practice. According to neurological research, autoscopic experiences are hallucinations. Experiences are characterized by the presence of the following three factors: impression of seeing one’s own body from this perspective (autoscopy).

Where does the word autoscopy come from in Wikipedia?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Autoscopy is the experience in which an individual perceives the surrounding environment from a different perspective, from a position outside of their own body. Autoscopy comes from the ancient Greek αὐτός (“self”) and σκοπός (“watcher”).

When does the autoscopic hallucination go away in alcohol withdrawal?

The Lilliputian hallucination was gone after the second day of admission and the autoscopic hallucination remained till the fifth day as inpatient. This case report documents the presence of autoscopic hallucination in the alcohol withdrawal state, which is an interesting finding.