The patient: A 52-year-old woman in The Hague, Netherlands
The symptoms: The woman visited an outpatient psychiatric clinic and told the doctors that when she looked at people’s faces, she saw them transform into the faces of dragons. She also saw dragon-like faces appear in front of her spontaneously, even when no people were present. These hallucinations were disturbing and affected her ability to interact with people.
The patient reported that human faces that seemed normal at first “turned black, grew long, pointy ears and a protruding snout, and displayed a reptiloid skin and huge eyes in bright yellow, green, blue, or red,” doctors wrote in a report of her case. She added that she had experienced these hallucinations since childhood.
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