Substances and medications that can cause tactile hallucinations include: Nearly everyone will experience hypnagogic hallucinations, often as a sensation of falling, looking down from a great height, being unable to move or being touched. This form of hallucination is triggered when the body moves through the stages of falling asleep or waking up too quickly or skips steps. The neurological condition narcolepsy has been known to cause extremely vivid or realistic hypnagogic hallucinations, a type of tactile hallucination that occurs just before fully falling sleep and fully being awake. And 3 to 5 percent of those people develop delirium, grand mal convulsions, or both. Approximately 50 percent of long-term, heavy alcohol users experience symptoms of alcohol withdrawal when they cut back or stop drinking. Severe alcohol withdrawal can cause delirium tremens, or rapid-onset, extreme confusion. When some people lose a limb or the use of it, they continue to feel as though the limb is still attached or is very painful. Lewy body dementiaĪs many as 65 percent of those with Lewy body dementia experience some form of hallucination, including tactile hallucinations. Hallucinations tend to occur in moderate to severe cases, but not in the end stages of the condition.
Alzheimer’s diseaseĪs many as 53 percent of people with Alzheimer’s disease experience visual, auditory, olfactory, or tactile hallucinations. Many people with Parkinson’s disease have some understanding that the sensation is not real as it is happening. Some individuals will experience the sensation of animals or people around or near them or feel as though they are floating. Hallucinations associated with the condition tend to be non-threatening, however, and have even been described by some people as amusing.
In a 2016 study, out of 200 surveyed persons with schizophrenia, more than 50 percent had experienced visual or tactile hallucinations.Īs many as 39.8 percent of people with Parkinson’s disease experience some form of hallucination, including tactile hallucinations. In a 2010 survey of 480 people in the United States with diagnosed schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders, 88.5 percent had experienced hallucinations.Īlthough auditory and visual hallucinations were the most common symptoms, tactile hallucinations occurred in 27 percent of respondents.
Medical conditions known to cause tactile hallucinations include: Schizophrenia
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