narratives of considerable detail and drama, sometimes with the ability to observe themselves from the outside. Their actual behavior, however, does not typically reflect the richness of their experience at the time in which it is occurring. A patient with oneiroid syndrome will often experience unusual and colourful pseudohallucinations. The environment may be perceived as having been specially set as for a show. Some patients in an oneiroid state might believe that during such an experience their lives are staged shows; in this case it is similar to the Truman Show delusion. There is often disorientation regarding place and time, as well as a double-awareness of oneself: a patient might be aware simultaneously that he or she is in the hospital, as well as a participant in a fantastical narrative. Individuals surrounding the patient may also be perceived by the patient as being participants in the same narrative, and might be regarded as either friendly or hostile. The behavior of a patient who is in an oneiroid state sharply contrasts with his or her fantastic pseudohallucinatory symptoms – patients usually lie motionless in bed, with closed eyes, sometimes making "smooth flying" movements with their hands, watching their fantastic adventures as if from the outside. Patients often experience distortions of time of immense proportions: for example, a patient may report that he or she has been flying for several light years, and that during that time, he or she died several times and was raised from the dead by cloning, with each of the clones living for several hundred years. Sometimes, patients do not lie on their bed, but instead wander thoughtfully through the mental institution with an "enchanted smile," withdrawn into themselves. At times, they are capable of directly reporting their fantastical experiences. At their height, single catatonic symptoms can appear in the form of, for example, catalepsy or sub-stupor. The themes of oneiroid experience are derived from the patient's own experiences, from books, fantasy, or films of appropriate content (probably, that is why the story of the experiences is different for all). Catatonic disorder due to oneiroid syndrome Catatonic stupor can be accompanied by a clear consciousness – lucid catatonia – or with a disorder of consciousness – oneiroid catatonia. Oneiroid catatonia combines with dream-like experiences, and a patient only communicates with people after the end of the episode of stupor (contact with a patient actively experiencing oneiroid catatonia