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

[ATRAYA]

I have Sleep Paralysis (that disorder where your entire body locks up, unable to move, and barely breathe, and you're caught in a thin fissure between deep R.E.M. sleep and being awake), and I once had visual hallucinations, though I couldn't remember them at all, thirty seconds after it happened. The strange thing is, the next time I had an attack, they were AUDIO hallucinations, and I quickly realized that they weren't hallucinations, but were actually audio MEMORIES of random stuff I had heard in the past year or so. It would start with just one audio memory, then rapidly build up into a cacophonous collection of catastrophic craziness, where the audio memories were absolutely DEAFENING inside my own head. And of course, being unable to move in that state, I can't shake myself from the horror, or at least ineffectually cover my ears to provide some sort of comfort and false sense of protection against the noise.

To this day I wonder if my visual hallucinations were also memories, and that maybe when the brain is storing short-term memories into long-term memories, it solidifies audio and visual separately.

 

[Alternative]

during a particularly bad case of insomnia i spent a night locked in a cupboard with an axe because i kept seeing the grim reaper outside a window.

i have never been more scared in my life.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Even though it's listed as a side effect, I would still bring this up with your doctor. They sound really vivid...

Once when I was really tired in class I hallucinated Ronald McDonald suddenly being the background of the PowerPoint. I blinked and he went away. I think I was on the verge of dreaming. Other than this experience I've never had any hallucinations.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Wait! I just remembered the hallucinations I had when I was like five years old. Often when I was going to bed, a chain multicolored, giant snow flakes would float by my bed on a river of sparkles. I know this sounds retarded but it definitely wasn't a dream because sometimes they would show up when I wasn't even tired.

Nowadays if I saw them, I'd probably go see a doctor but back then I remember them being strangely comforting and I remember hoping I'd see them each night. Some people had imaginary friends, I had imaginary snow flakes.

 

[Sexy Devil]

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.

I'm sorry. I should feel sorry for you. I should be giving you advice. But that is fucking hilarious.

You spelled "awesome" wrong dude. I mean the spidey one might be depressing because it perpetually reminds you of that movie. But otherwise, awesome.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

Dude, life is a hallucination of sorts, after all everything you observe is just what your brain interprets your occular input as, which means what you might see as red could be what someone else calls turquoise, but since turquoise looks like something else to you, and they always called what you see as turquoise red, that you see that and identify it as red, but when someone else looks at it, it totally looks like a different colour, now apply that to EVERYTHING, now reassemble your brain.

Perspective is life.

 

[Salad Is Murder]

Anyone experienced anything like this?

No, and I'm guessing neither have you.

Dude, life is a hallucination of sorts, after all everything you observe is just what your brain interprets your occular input as, which means what you might see as red could be what someone else calls turquoise, but since turquoise looks like something else to you, and they always called what you see as turquoise red, that you see that and identify it as red, but when someone else looks at it, it totally looks like a different colour, now apply that to EVERYTHING, now reassemble your brain.

Perspective is life.

This is also completely untrue.

 

[Alternative]

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.

Oh god i feel sorry for you, i cant imagine how horrible that would be. i mean Commander Shepard is a horrible dancer

 

[Salad Is Murder]

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.

Oh god i feel sorry for you, i cant imagine how horrible that would be. i mean Commander Shepard is a horrible dancer

False: The Shepard Shuffle is a tried and true, get down and boogie wit'cho bad self dance move. Only the Running Man is more beautiful in its execution and grace.

 

[KingHodor]

Ambien hallucinations are fascinating... I remember this one time when I thought I could run a quick dungeon in Morrowind before going to bed, and the Ambien a) caused the game to be so enjoyable that I no longer wanted to go to bed and made me keep on playing b) suddenly gave me the ability to make sense of the ghostly whispers and understand that they were talking about 23 murders being commited by the German left-wing terrorist organization RAF.

These hallucinations quickly subside as you become tolerant, though, although "tolerance to a short-acting (non-)benzo" should be regarded as far more dangerous than a few little GABA-mediated hallucinations in bed.

Edit: Also used it on a plane ride across the Atlantic, the result of which was the realization that a) airplane interiors have a "yellowish-turquoise, cathedral-like quality" to them and b) that you should only take it *after* the in-flight meal unless you want to regain consciousness 4 hours later with a lot of food stains on your shirt.

 

[Esotera]

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

Sorry but that's terrible advice...this clearly isn't something that OP was expecting of the medication, and a lot of sleeping pills can have the side effect of triggering psychosis. While the hallucinations themselves are most likely harmless it wouldn't be something most people would want on a permanent basis, so OP should be talking with a doctor about the side effects.

 

[spectrenihlus]

The only hallucinations I have ever experienced was when I was sick with a 105f degree fever. I felt as if the room I was in became larger and larger and that I was in a bed in a gigantic room. It even sounded echoey.

 

[Evil Smurf]

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.

concerts would be sick!

 

[tthor]

mind telling me what kind of medication these are? and where I can get some?
(screw this, i wanna hang out with spiderman and green lantern!)

 

[Palademon]

I don't think I've ever had hallucinations, and I don't want to, because unlike your lucky self, I think mine would be full of things I'm afraid of.

But anyway, doctor seeing.

Edit: Today I learned (from this thread)I want to have sleep paralysis even less

 

[Retal19]

Only ever had the minor auditory hallucinations everyone has. The typical stuff. People calling your name when they aren't mainly, sometimes just little strange organic noises (not like squeaking or barking, things like growling in the walls, mumbling noises, etc.) when I'm alone in the house, or people talking when there's no one around.

It's annoying, although the little organic noises and the talking can be terrifying at Night when I start to get tired and paranoid. I do not like Auditory Hallucinations because they're really just your brain acting like an idiot, but at least they're nice enough to only turn up like, once every month.

 

[KingHodor]

mind telling me what kind of medication these are? and where I can get some?
(screw this, i wanna hang out with spiderman and green lantern!)

I'd assume Ambien (Zolpidem), which is probably the most commonly prescribed sleep aid.
There is actually a game out there called the "Ambien challenge" in which you pop one or more pills, then try to stay awake in order to drift into a hallucinogenic dreamlike state.

Problem is that this stuff can be highly addictive, both psychologically and physically (it is chemically classified as a "non-benzodiazepine", meaning that despite its distinct structure it produces effects similar to the extremely habit-forming "benzos"), so my advice would be not to screw around with it.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Hallucinated while tired a few times (like, awake for five days sort of tired)

Mostly it was little things like the walls bending or the floor being the ceiling, but there were a few more terrifying ones.

Probably the most memorable was the drowned little girl thing. It was basically this little girl who was entirely white, white hair, white skin, white clothes, who kept appearing in front of me. She was dripping wet and didn't have eyes, just empty holes where her eyes should have been, and she always got uncomfortably close before disappearing. I was convinced one time that she was going to kill me, but that was the point where I lost consciousness and woke up eighteen hours later fully rested.

Yeah, she made a few repeat appearances in dreams after that as well.

Normally don't comment on Captcha but: Cool Heads Prevail. Maybe some good psychiatric advice from the captcha there?

 

[Vicarious Reality]

When i first tried to take zolpidem for my sleep problems, i got completely weirded out, i thought there was some kind of slimy fuzzy skin all over my keyboard and the computer screen seemed to dissolve into three dimensional layers
Then i ate an entire bowl of popcorn which i promptly threw up on the carpet

Another time, i took it, and then lost conciousness and later i find a strange video on my phone of me videoing the computer screen which displayed the absurdly broken eve online character creator for like five minutes with the camera going up and forward and side to side and spinning around
I have no idea what i did that night, but my second, unopened box of zolpidem was completely gone when i woke up
I could not even find it in the thrash

Dangerous crap, that medicine, yet so hilarious

 

[Zanderinfal]

I've had weird dreams from a fever but then I have weird dreams anyway..

OH GOD.

That reminded me of that time when I had a sickness and while I slept I dreamed of becoming a mutant and forever suffering. When I check the time it had felt like years but it was only minutes after I had gone to bed...

Creepy shit.