{"id":15167,"date":"2020-09-22T23:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=15167"},"modified":"2020-10-01T12:46:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:46:06","slug":"seeing-things-that-are-not-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/seeing-things-that-are-not-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Things That Are Not There: What it Means"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What does it mean when you are seeing things that are not there? What happened when Susannah Cahalan started having visual hallucinations in <em>Brain on Fire<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seeing things that are not there was a common experience for Susannah as she developed anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis. She had a variety of visual and auditory hallucinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about how and why Susannah experienced seeing things that are not there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Susannah Starts Seeing Things That Are Not There<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>During the height of the Manhattan bedbug scare in 2009, Susannah finds two red dots on her arm. She\u2019s convinced her apartment is infested, even though an exterminator says otherwise. At work the next day, Susannah feels the walls caving in. Posters on the wall pulsate.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>This is the beginning of her seeing things that are not there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>She has another hallucination in Times Square the next day. <\/strong>The garish colors on the Times Square billboards make the hairs on her neck stand up. A scrolling banner makes her want to vomit. She\u2019s instantly hit by a migraine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Susannah asks another colleague for advice, and the woman gives her an excellent piece of counsel: <strong>Susannah should write down every symptom, no matter how small it is. Even the tiniest detail could turn out to be important. <\/strong>Susannah returns to her desk, writes down the word \u201cinsomnia\u201d and shouts, \u201cEverything\u2019s going to be great!\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buoyantly happy for the moment, Susannah saunters over to Paul\u2019s desk and invites him downstairs for a smoke. As she talks a mile a minute, Paul becomes increasingly concerned, convinced she\u2019s on the verge of a breakdown. Excusing himself, he goes upstairs and tells Angela to call Susannah\u2019s mom, partly because Susannah is seeing things that are not there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Susannah\u2019s now by herself on the street. She feels wobbly. <strong>She floats above the crowd, seeing the top of her own head.<\/strong> The Wiccan librarian walks by and tells Susannah she\u2019s just experiencing astral travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hearing Things Never Said<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>At her dad\u2019s place, Susannah has a number of hallucinations. She hears her stepmom saying, \u201cYou\u2019re a spoiled brat,\u201d even though her lips don\u2019t move. She is also seeing things that are not there. A painting comes alive. Her childhood dollhouse is haunted. Her father is beating her stepmom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Convinced her father is going to kill her, Susannah runs to the front door of the brownstone and bangs her fists against the door, screaming, \u201cLet me out!\u201d When she hears her father coming, she locks herself in the bathroom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That night <strong>Susannah\u2019s parents agree that she must be admitted to a hospital, but refuse to let her go to a psych ward.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even fully recovered, Susannah can remember only the hallucinations she experienced during her illness; she can\u2019t recall its day-to-day reality. <strong>This strange discrepancy makes her wonder whether she can rely on her own mind.<\/strong> Why does she continue to favor hallucinations over reality? Why do those particular hallucinations persist? 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