So, I've been having these hallucinations recently...

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RJ Dalton

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Welcome to the club. I don't know if I'd continue the meds, if I were you. They might be the problem.
 

Imthatguy

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Damn I kinda like my occasional hallucinations there not quite as off the wall as y'all's.
 

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SpectacularWebHead said:
So I've been given some medication for a minor sleep disorder, and a listed side effect is that I have begun hallucinating. VIVIDLY.

To give you an example of what I'm talking about, I'm currently sitting opposite black suit spiderman, hanging from the ceiling. I've written down the recurring ones, Black suit spidey, batman and robin, green lantern and commander shepard. Each of them are stuck on a loop of some description. Spidey hangs on a web, gently swaying, batman and robin have some unclear dialogue they repeat, green lantern appears, makes a cup of coffe, and leaves, and commander shepard stands in the middle of the room dancing. Yeah...My psyche is clearly very weird.

Not just them, though. Celebrities, animals, videogame characters, inanimate objects. It's weirding me out. Earlier I thought I saw a cup that I had been looking for, and it turned out to not be there. It's weirding me out.

Anyone experienced anything like this?
No, but I sure as hell wish I had!

The closest I had to anything like this was the night after being hospitalized with alcohol poisoning, I had some semi-vivid hallucinations including my naked ex girlfriend, and a man on the ceiling with a hook hand trying to get me.
 

NinjaDeathSlap

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Diagnosis: I'm afraid you are Erin Strout. Come back if you start getting into bar fights aas a means of getting laid. :p

In all seriousness though I sympathise, hallucinations can be a very tricky business. Just be glad the stuff you're hallucinating seems fairly benign, at worst weird and at best funny. I have had a similar experience, which led to me having a very informative discussion with some sentient marshmallows. Good times.
 

Moonlight Butterfly

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Once in hospital on morphine I hallucinated that Lara Croft was holding my hand ...turns out it was my sister rofl.

Mind is a funny thing.
 

Carbonyl

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Well, I hallucinated a pixelated goldfish swimming out of my physics professor's face due to sleep deprivation once.

Never stay up for five days straight. Never.


Also, I have synesthesia, but it's only rarely intrusive, like when sounds are REALLY loud, I get flashes of color.
 

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I've hallucinated a few times but I can never really remember details when I'm normal. Some of the ones I do remember include:
Things changing colour (things being the inside of my tent, my desk, etc
Trees singing
People's voices distorting bizarrely
Bits of people being invisible
 

Breaker deGodot

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The only kind of hallucinating I've had was a result of sleep paralysis. I do NOT want repeat that experience again because it scared the shit out of me.
 

David Bjur

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Minor sleep disorder? You should drop those pills, man, they seem to cause more harm than good.

Now have I ever hallucinated? Well, yesterday I saw that a white hand touched my arm, and I felt it touching me. I spun around faster than a beyblade, looking for someone behind me that might have been trying to get my attention.
Noone were there. I just went to bed, trying to forget what just happened.

Why did I hallucinate? Lack of sleep, probably. It was in the middle of the night and I haven't been sleeping a lot lately. So remember kids, have some nice sleep or you'll start seeing crazy shit.
 

Knight Templar

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So what is it like being Erin Stout?

Anyway, I've never had anything like that but recommend that you tell your doctor as soon as possible, and do not engage with your hallucinations on any level. You are not Malkavian, they won't have anything interesting to say.
 

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Breaker deGodot said:
The only kind of hallucinating I've had was a result of sleep paralysis. I do NOT want repeat that experience again because it scared the shit out of me.
I've had those before, and they always involve waking up from a dream where I'm about to be abducted by aliens and then put my arm up at the window and trying to do some chi energy shooting thing at em... SOOO scary
 

Don Savik

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I've had some really bad sleep paralysis before. Nobody believes the experience though because it sounds silly to the outside listener. But about a month ago I had the worst nightmare in my entire life. Hilariously enough it was an encounter with The Slenderman......in my own room. I could've swore I was awake because I remember it like it wasn't a dream. I could hear him speaking to me like he was really 3 feet in front of me. THATS how real it felt. Normally I wouldn't have been scared, but the thing with sleep paralysis/night terrors is that your heart is racing on its own. You're scared shitless even if you don't want to be and you can't do anything about it. Probably the worst moment in my entire life.

Man talking about dreams really makes you sound mentally insane :/
 

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SpectacularWebHead said:
So I've been given some medication for a minor sleep disorder, and a listed side effect is that I have begun hallucinating. VIVIDLY.
May I have some of whatever that is? I now really want to try this. I've got a whole summer to to do this in.
 

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While driving up the east coast with my Uncle and, under the influence of fever and sleep-deprivation, I swear to god I saw a little girl walk into the middle of the highway and stand in front of the car. It was late at night and she looked like your typical Japanese Horror Girl too: no discernible face, long black hair, flowing white gown. She walked out of a wooded area, stood in front of our car and, stayed there as my uncle drove right through her. There was no impact and I was determined to not look back.

On other occasions where I was in desperate need of sleep, I have been known to experience auditory hallucinations. Nothing major: mostly just phones ringing and other random noise that I hear in a work place environment.
 

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Pretty sure this isn't true, but if it is stop taking the meds as hallucinations are very very dangerous. You could leap right out of a window that you think is a wall or fall down stairs you don't see. You could trip on something and break your neck, the list goes on...

My advice? Calm down before bed, don't eat before bed, don't listen to music before bed, don't do a lot of physically activity within 3 hours of going to bed, stop 'thinking' about stuff before bed, stay up until you can't possibly keep your eyes open anymore (the best solution to sleep problems, at least in my opinion, its how I sleep like a baby every single night, plus get more fun time :D!) If you can't stay up, well... bummer, try to shed any unnecessary responsibilities
 

Conn1496

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I'd like to experience something like this. I really would, just for the ride.
But yeah, you should probably see your doctor about that, or something.