Examples of hallucinations in a beautiful mind

For example, the film depicts Nash's hallucinations as complex visual hallucinations, which is uncommon and most often reported as auditory hallucinations (hearing voices). When using A Beautiful Mind as an educational tool, it is important to identify how positive symptoms of schizophrenia typically present.

Specifically, Nash began to experience auditory and visual hallucinations. He also had delusions that he had been recruited by a government agency as a code breaker. He thought his “job” was to work against the clock, trying to gain information about plans of a potential attack on the United States.

Common hallucinations can include: Feeling sensations in the body, such as a crawling feeling on the skin or the movement of internal organs. Hearing sounds, such as music, footsteps, windows or doors banging. Hearing voices when no one has spoken (the most common type of hallucination).

Nash was 30 years old when he started to experience symptoms of schizophrenia, which include hallucinations and delusions.