This is one thing that's certainly an issue but another is that people's idea of what a hallucination is being shaped by movies and tv. So people end up having

This is one thing that's certainly an issue but another is that people's idea of what a hallucination is being shaped by movies and tv. So people end up having this idea of what hallucinations are that has nothing to do with reality and so naturally when they do have hallucinations, it makes far more sense to dismiss them as optical illusions, weird lightning, a noise coming from the neighbor and stuff like that.