AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -This refers to when a person experiences a feeling of their body being seriously hurt through mutilation or disembowelment, for example. Patients have also reported experiencing animals trying to invade their bodies, such as snakes crawling into their stomach.

Detailed explanation-2: -Examples of somatic hallucinations are the sensation of having a lump in the throat that is not there, of animals crawling through the body, of a plant scraping its pointed leaves against the inside of one’s skull, or bones apparently increasing or decreasing in size.

Detailed explanation-3: -Somatic hallucinations are defined as bodily sensations experienced inside the body, in the absence of an objectifiable source or cause.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tactile hallucinations: These occur when a person feels like something or someone touched them. Somatic hallucinations: These hallucinations can affect the entire body, causing unreal sensations such as that of bugs crawling on the skin.