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I am no metal gear solid expert but i strongly believe that Ishmael is just a hallucination aswell, if you follow the trailer closely and take its advice to open your eyes it can have two big diffrent meanings.

The first option, trailer tells you top open your eyes. After the first scene with the doctor, they focus that his left arm is gone, and another scene in the trailer where i do believe they want to focus this young man that resembles psycho mantis the camera is more centered towards " Ishmaels " left arm. Therefore the metal gear name Phantom Pain witch is a medical condition. "  

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Learning more about the medical condition and its symptoms it stronger and stronger indicates to me that " Ishmael " may just be a self projected daemon in this case - the guardian spirit of a place or person. Cause what the trailer shows us " Ishmael " being more of just a guardian that is looking out after big boss.[2] A very short sequence of the trailer shows how careless or can you even call it cold the projection is when Big boss is faced in a small corridor that is getting opened fire at and during the time Big boss turns around to look for another escape from the corridor slaugther you are catching just a glimpse at " Ishmael " just standing there watching right back at Big Boss.

He is not seen leaving the hospital/clinic with Big boss but is shown riding the car they accidently crash. Big boss coming back on his feet from the crash " Ishmael " is nowhere to be seen but waiting on him is a blurring white light from a helicopter and standing infront of him is this young man who resembles psycho mantis with long sleeves. And later on shown when Big boss gets saved by unkown man & white horse is " Ishmael " nowhere seen.

A general part of the Phantom Pain trailer can be described as : '''[1] Shooting,Throbbing and a hell of a lot burning. '''

Burning men, burning hospital, burning helicopter, burning whale and burning horse rider.

When i asked to closely look at the symptoms of Phantom Pain earlier two that are extremly general factors in my theory are :
 * [1] May be described as shooting, stabbing, boring, squeezing, throbbing or burning.
 * [2] Sometimes feels as if the phantom part is forced into an uncomfortable position.