![Panel 1 of a four-panel comic called 'I was hallucinating', consisting of thick black line drawing on a mottled grey background. A basic outline of the top half of a human torso, arms by its side, without a head fills three quarters of the panel. In the centre of the chest is a red painted circle with a red heart shape inside it. At the top of the panel hand written text against a white background reads: "I reached a crisis when I hallucinated a red heart glowing in my chest."](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/0854f9d8-c3f5-4f1b-9a2b-fa557c5ff62c_dissonance+15.jpg?w=1020&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel 2 of a four-panel comic called 'I was hallucinating', consisting of thick black line drawing on a mottled grey background. The crudely drawn face of a young person with glasses, short hair and an open mouth looks out at the viewer. A wavy black line surrounds the top of the head like a halo. White lines of scribble are randomly drawn across the panel, cutting across the face. At the top of the panel hand-written text against a white background reads: "I told my therapist what I was seeing and hearing, and he called the hospital. This is when the dissonance became unbearable."](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/95b072b3-dcde-4137-a199-90de6038d4c7_dissonance+16.jpg?w=1020&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel 3 of a four-panel comic called 'I was hallucinating', consisting of thick black line drawing on a mottled grey background. A large blue drop of water is painted in the centre of the panel. On either side of teh droplet are blocks of hand-written text against white backgrounds. Along the bottom of the panel is a strip of black colour. The text reads: "It was like a pure drop of water had been released into my muddy psychotic thinking." "When it happened, I intuited, like a shadow self,"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/20779ff2-ed72-4951-9f59-7aef51792423_dissonance+17.jpg?w=1020&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel four of a four-panel comic called 'I was hallucinating', consisting of thick black line drawing on a white background. The head and shoulders of a crudely drawn young man with large eyes stares out at the viewer, filling most of the panel. The figure has glasses and short hair. Light grey scribbles are drawn all over the panel, cutting across the figure. A thought bubble above his head says "Other people don't experience the world from the levels of consciousness thing".](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/4cea0412-2286-41f7-88c7-d1a86cd3cc1b_dissonance+18.jpg?w=1020&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
I was halluncinating. © Andrew Field for Wellcome Collection.
About the artist
Andrew Field
(he/him)
Andrew Field is a cartoonist, poet, singer-songwriter and librarian based in Southeast Michigan. He is currently finishing up a graphic novella about living with schizophrenia called ‘The Light-Haunted Museum’, which can be found on his website.