Talk:I'm the One/@comment-26145593-20170620194456/@comment-25936766-20170620212230

Except Ilusions can also be "single-target", though it varies.

And it still doesn't change the fact that that was not an Hallucination, it was an Ilusion by definition. Seeing/Hearing/Smelling/Feeling X as Y, is an Ilusion. Hallucinations are Sensing nothing as X.

In more technical wording, Hallucinations are a distortion of the senses when there's no stimuli. Illusions are a sensorial distortion born from the "misinterpretation" of a stimuli.

If Merc had no legs at the time, then seeing him with normal legs would've been an Hallucination, bordering close to Delusion while at it. But he had legs, metal legs, and thus seeing said metal legs like normal legs, is an Illusion.

The most logical conclusion here would be that they failed to do the appropiate research and thus know the difference, and how "planting images on people's minds" is not (necesarily) an Hallucination just like that...

.............................................However. There is 1 way....I'll explain below.

Technically, you cannot Hallucinate X as if it was Y. But you can Hallucinate something in X that makes it look like Y, which would be similar to an optical Ilusion.

For example, let's say you have a sandwich. Now, you see it as having multiple eyes all over it's surface. The eyes are an Hallucination, but their presence makes the whole thing feel like an Illusion in practice.

Basically, it's similar to imposing an image over another. The top image is not present, it's being hallucinated, but the bottom image is present indeed. The top image ends up warping perception of the bottom. Visual Hallucinations are like Photoshop.

That's the only way I could see what Emerald did as anything close to "Hallucination". Imposing the image of "normal legs" over Merc's metal legs, making them look normal. However, it's still more of an Illusion than an actual Hallucination, in the end.

As for your Schizophrenic friend thinking the guy's hair was made of worms.....I assume it was said schizophrenic friend who said that? Schizophrenia is characterized by thought disorders and delusions, among other things. I wouldn't treat that as solid evidence.