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

[Kargathia]

What's your medication?

If it's just for sleep and it's causing these side effects, you should stop taking it and talk to your doctor or a specialist about getting a different drug that fulfils the same function.

I get quite a few hallucinations, they're more common than you'd think in the general population - about one in ten people will have them at some point.

As long as he sticks with hallucinating superheroes on an idle loop then he might as well stay on them.

Just too bad the first "bad trip" is probably just around the corner.

... 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 !)

That would be hilariously bad advice to anyone who functions best at night. Or to give a personal example: for me that would mean going to bed two pm the day after.

 

[Navvan]

I've always wanted to have vivid hallucinations (within a controlled environment and parameter naturally).

Personally I often hallucinate smells and tastes (weekly). Sometimes I'll have minor auditory hallucinations (yelps, buzzes, bells, name called) but those are much rarer.

Its nice when I smell and taste good things (food I like for example). Its not so fun when I smell something like toluene [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluene] or taste something like asian beetles [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_beetle]. As far as I can tell its only been things that I've smelt or tasted before.

There have only been a few cases where I have had visual hallucinations. The four times I have suffered from sleep paralysis and one visual hallucination while I was driving at night and slightly paranoid (it was shortly after I had got my license). I thought I saw people crossing the street (in the middle of nowhere/countryside) so I slammed on my brakes. When I took a second glance nothing was there.

 

[Breaker deGodot]

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

Mine involved shadow creatures. If you've ever played ICO before, they resemble the enemies from that game, but with bright white eyes that NEVER. STOP. STARING. If I had been able to move, I would have been crying from fear.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

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?

On a certain level, I understand that this is clearly a bad thing, but after I read about Commander Sheppard standing around dancing, my brain is having a hard time figuring out why. (EDIT: Also, I'm fairly certain it's made up, but I don't care. It's hilarious.)

Anyway, uh...The other day I was having trouble sleeping and eventually had a dream that I was lying in my room having trouble sleeping. Then an alien disguised as a banana tried to kill me, so I fought it to the death and eventually squashed it. When I finally woke up, I didn't even know I'd slept. My first thoughts were "Wait, it's light out already? Did I not sleep at all the whole night? Man, I guess killing that banana alien took longer then I thou-Oh, I see."

And that's the closest thing I've ever had to a hallucination.

 

[Croix Sinistre]

I take ambien for sleep issues, if I don't immediately lay down I start to hallucinate text swelling in and out slightly, stuff appears to be blowing in the wind, and I will start talking jibberish if someone is around.

Granted these are extremely mild and only occur when I don't follow the instructions for taking it (go right to bed when you take a dose), but I can see where someone might have crazier hallucinations with larger doses.

 

[Angelblaze]

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?

A...Are you Erin from Critical Mass with a minor upgrade?

And no. But drugs do that to you.
Cocaine is a hellova drug.

However, in your own defense I've had weird dreams involving video game characters too. Everything from Samus Aran to the Brute from AmnesiaD. I prefer the former rather then the latter though.

I do remember one specfic dream I had where spiderman and I went to a coffee shop and, interestingly enough, talked about politics, the weather and other things. They were all things that I agreed with so maybe my mind was superimposing me onto Spiderman (at the time, I was playing Spiderman 2 the video game ALL THE TIME when I wasn't sleeping) and trying to show me my own beliefs, shown through something I had taken a fondness for.
Perhaps to prove to me that my beliefs weren't bad or flawed but were still imperfect or slightly shambled.(Spiderman couldn't get his life together remember? lol)

 

[sarahvait]

Imagine if you started hallucinating naked people. That would be best.

Like lemon party, right? I hope that doesn't slip into OP's hallucinations.

OT: Well, not any that I remember but apparently I was little I have been sleepwalking for a short time and talking nonsense. My mother told me I once went to her and told her I couldn't sleep and a string of other words which didn't make much sense, so she led me to bed and I only learned of that in the morning.

But a friend of mine, smoked some weed but behaved properly for a while until he suddenly froze mid conversation staring behind me. I turned and there was nothing there - just the door to the hallway, but he was convinced he saw a ninja walk past. I tried to tell him that it was impossible but he wouldn't take it. Finally, I walked in the hallway and pointed out that if there was a ninja in the house I would have been dead already. That calmed him down.

A different friend of mine smoked some shisha. It even had normal tobacco in it (taken from a cigarette) but somehow it hit him hard. In about half an hour he was lying on the sofa barely moving, not talking and wheezing. We asked him if he was OK but he only managed to whisper faintly "It doesn't allow me. It doesn't allow me to breathe. The shisha.". True story that one.

I have some FANTASTIC weed stories from my friends. Under the influence, they came up with the idea for chocolate rice (which is apparently normal rice boiled in chocolate milk as opposed to water). One time, they were all just sitting around, with one of my friends on the couch. He hadn't moved for a long time, just staring at the ceiling. Suddenly he bolts upright and goes "Guys...I was just in a war. They wouldn't let me come back..."

OT: Anyhow, you may want to, at the very least, make sure your doctor or whoever prescribed these pills to you know about these side effects you're having. It might be better if they could get you on something else that doesn't affect you like this. You don't want to be in a job interview or something and suddenly have Christian Bale style Batman burst into the room screaming incoherently at you.

 

[Aprilgold]

I totally wish I could experience this just to see if my mind prefers either slightly muscular men or very skinny not muscular men because I have no damn clue.

I've never hallucinated visually but I have through sound. Once I heard my dog scream in pain but he was totally OK, gave me a hell of a rush.

 

[chadachada123]

Once I stayed up for over 72 hours straight, and saw (and heard) a couple of weird things.

The most common thing was definitely the audio. I would, every few minutes, hear something on the edge of hearing that wasn't actually there. Laughing, people saying my name, general dialogue, everything.

I also saw things on the edge of my vision pretty often too.

I had two legit hallucinations. One: I was sitting on my computer typing, and looked down and saw a long piece of bent hair on my hand. I looked back up, brushed it off, and continued typing. When I looked back down, it was still there. I brushed my hand, and my other hand went right through the hair. I stared at it for a few seconds, and, in my sleepy haze, dismissed it and continued typing.

The second one was several hours later. I went to the bathroom, and while peeing, I saw a little thin wisp of smoke or mist drifting up in a spiral from somewhere to my right. I thought to myself, "this isn't real," and kept staring. I turned and exited after finishing peeing.

Good times.

 

[The Ubermensch]

Cool, personally I had a near death experience on the back of a motorcycle, I saw the source code of the universe and reverted to the last checkpoint.

I know it sounds like I'm bullshitting but I'm honestly not certain if I hallucinated that... or that I'm now God.

I still came off the bike FYI, but I managed to avoid getting run over by the car and my ninja was only superficially damaged.

Aside from that, I view my conciousness as a kabal of sub consciousnesses. Often my logic and reasoning which has taken on the appearance of Yuki Nagato argues with my arrogance and awesome-ing which has the appearance of Motoko Kusanagi (From SAC). Normally it happens within my mind but I have on the odd occasion projected them into reality.

I also sometimes lose track of the fact that my lucid dreams are in fact dreams... this has lead me to be quite disconcerted in an awesome way.

 

[HellRaid]

I once got incredibly drunk while dressed as Doctor Who and then imagined I was the Doctor on some sort of world-saving errand (not sure what he'd be doing in a student union, but I digress) - and then went I looking for my TARDIS. I never found it

On a related note, asking women if they want to see your time machine and then explaining that it is currently camouflaged in the shape of your bed does not work the wonders you might think it will.

 

[Battleaxx90]

Am I the only one here who's watched Chaos;Head? Believe me, the OP's answers are in there somewhere.

 

[NightHawk21]

Man I wanna hallucinate. All your guys stories seem like an amazing time.

 

[Darren716]

Last year I thought the word beware September 10th were written on the side of my trigonomenty book and that my neighbor owned the book last year and somthing bad happened to him on that date (I was wrong). This caused me to wake my parents up and told them I had to get rid of the book. Strangely enough I wasn't on anything at the time I was just convinced about a prophecy that was written on my trigonomenty book. Since this happened in October however I'm kind of scared that bad shit will happen on September 10th.

 

[launchpadmcqwak]

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?

dude...WHERE CAN I GET THESE PILLS?

 

[lacktheknack]

Only once, during a moment of sleep paralysis.

http://volcanoseven.com/TheThunderChild/EBAYReady/PickmansModel/thelesson.png

...It sucked. It sucked really, really, really, really, REALLY hard.

 

[mrdude2010]

What medication is this? I know DPH (Benadryl) can give you some pretty nasty, vivid, hallucinations in high doses.

 

[ChadSexington]

I had a job that I hated so much that it started fucking with my mind. I'd have these weird episodes which involved anxiety, visual and auditory hallucinations. It sucked. Shit would change sizes and have lights coming out of it, there was absolutely nothing fun about it. Well, there might have been if it weren't for the anxiety that came with it. It was terrifying.

On the other hand I did acid once. That was fun. Also, it was after I quit the job so it wasn't some sort of leftover trace for those wondering. Unless you're having a great time chilling with spidey I'd recommend you see your doctor.

Also, guys, never work at Hungry Jacks. (Burger King for non-Australians)

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

My hallucinations seem limited to catching movement out of the corner of my eye and sometimes catching brief glimpses of many-legged things quickly moving out of sight.
Yes, I worry about it.

 

[Mike the Bard]

I agree with everyone else. You might want to swap them out for different pills. In truth through, a pharmacist will know more about the drugs you should take since they have to by the nature of their job. So i suggest talking to a pharmacist before your doc to get an idea of what you should get.

For Hilarious Hallucination stories, i have one. after i had my appendix removed and i was still in the hospital recovering. I woke up in the middle of the night, the anesthesia they used on me was still in my system. I saw a pillow from my house moving around the room like a spider, the first thing that popped in my mind about the pillow was, "Oh look! the king of Egypt has come over for lunch!"

Moral of the story. anesthesia can give you crazy hallucinations and make you derp in way you never thought possible.