Have you ever hallucinated

[Trigger Hippie]

when you weren't on any illegal (fun) drugs, say when you were sick or something. I was just remembering my hallucination: first there was one ant, the next second there were hundreds all over the wall. I tried to convince my then boyfriend that they were there, but he didn't believe me. I swear I didn't understand till days later I was hallucinating. :scared:

[leftofthedial]

1. I thought I did once

but I was imagining things

[ET Awful]

6. Hehehe, I was gonna say that :) n/t

[Trigger Hippie]

7. Y'all are so

:silly:

:)

[stellanoir]

2. Yup

when I was eleven I had scarlet fever and I hallucinated that two family members were jack asses. Or maybe not.

[trackfan]

3. No. Not even when doped up.

[mopinko]

4. yes

a childhood head injury screwed up my sleep, and many strange things happened to me as a result. i had a recurrent hallucination that i was very small, and also that the furniture in my bedroom was advancing and retreating across the room.

[AverageJoe]

5. Yes, once on a road trip when I was physically exhausted

I was driving from Boston to Kentucky and got about as tired as a human being can be and still more or less function.

I don't remember where I was exactly, but probably somewhere near the Kentucky line. It was in the winter and snow was pouring down.

Suddenly, very vividly, I saw flying dinosaurs and other creatures coming at me through the snow. They seemed as real as anything I've ever seen in my life and I can still picture them.

I pulled over and made my buddy drive. He was upset that I woke him up, but come on....

[hyphenate]

8. Yes, on prescription meds

I was on this painkiller, Ultram, for awhile, and boy was that stuff messing with my head!

Just after going to bed, still awake, but with the lights out and my eyeglasses off, I would see creepy "bugs" all over the place. Almost like trapeze artists, I swear, hanging from the bedroom light, on my bedside radio, etc. If you've ever seen that old Tom Selleck film, "Runaway" with Gene Simmons as the bad guy, my bugs kind of looked like those metal spiders they had.

One night, though, it was worse: I was having a bizarre dream when I felt like someone was in the room with me, and I opened my eyes and swear there was a black garbed ninja standing over me with a sabre or scimitar or some other large, curved knife. I even blinked, and I swear he was still there. I slept with the lamp on the rest of the night, and for a few nights afterwards, too.

Once I discontinued the medication, the visions slacked off and finally disappeared completely--thank goodness!

[Trigger Hippie]

9. I had some aural hallucinations

when I was on some meds at one time. I kept hearing people say my name when I was in the house alone. And the phone kept ringing, but it really wasn't. Spooky.

[Lerkfish]

10. as a kid, I saw a huge gorilla advancing towards me across the bedroom...

it was real and palpable to me...it was dim, in the middle of the night, and I saw the outline of a hulking shape slowly advancing towards me. I screamed, and my dad came into the room and turned on the light. The shape disappeared instantly.

Now, of course, this could have been a nightmare, but I distinctly recall i was completely awake before and after the switch was flipped, and NOTHING in the room changed at all except the shape disappearing. It was dim but not black, and I could see all the outlines of the dresser, the window, etc.

It was like a Bewitched episode, where one minute Endora is there, then she's not, but everything else in the room is the same.

pretty freaky. That's been 40 years ago and it still weirds me out a bit to recall it.

[Droopy]

11. Yes. Hearing voices used to be a way of life for me

until I started taking an anti-psychotic.

[DS1]

12. Not really, but one time I did get a fantastic endorphin high from

eating a full jar of 'hot' hot sauce and then going for a 4 mile run :D

I am, however, no longer insane.

[Trigger Hippie]

14. Yow!!!

[johnnie]

13. Maybe we are actually hallucinating all of life.

I think this is one big hallucination and as soon as the air runs out I will see what "reality" truly is.

[Droopy]

16. "Life is just a fantasy"

Cue synthesizer.

[gmoney]

22. Didn't you see The Matrix?

In REALITY, we're all gravity defying Kung-Fu artists in designer sunglasses and black leather

[johnnie]

23. Lol, yeah, I saw it

I have a video of the philosopher Alan Watts from his houseboat in the early 70s when he is basically saying that we might already just be laying around with computer chips in our heads and not really living this reality.
He was a great guy to listen to speak.

[caty]

15. Yes

When I was 8 yrs.old I had the measles and pneumonia. One night my temperature went way up and I saw spiders all over my room and on my bed. I freaked out. My parents moved me to the couch in the living room where I continued to see strange things. I saw toy soldiers marching back and forth in front of me. I saw posters of cowboys and horses hanging from the ceiling. When I got sleepy the posters went up through the ceiling and I fell asleep.

[Beware the Beast Man]

17. Yes, when I was a kid and I had the flu with a fever.

Usually I'd wake up from sleeping and I'd still be dreaming. It was like there were images projected on my ceiling as I lay in bed. Very odd.

[peacebuzzard]

18. When I am deeply fatigued, near sleepwalking stage I experience

hallucinations. It can be unnerving, especially if I am driving or at work. I will see images of people or objects that are not there. I also can hear thuds or thumps but I believe it is actually my brain taking a flash nap because I am so exhausted. This actually happens often to me because my work schedule keeps me going straight for days at a time w/ minimal rest and long work days. I am sure it's a classical sleep deprivation symptom. :boring: Just like now, I am sitting here exhausted after a marathon of nearly 18 duty days and the most I can muster is to stare at this screen and barely function. I am better today than yesterday when I would just sit down and doze off. It takes several days of 12 hour nights to overcome.

[Trigger Hippie]

20. Ouch,

and I thought college was bad. Take care. :)

[mopinko]

21. fix you sleep!

get a study, and see why you have this kind of sleep problems. if your doctor does not take this seriously, find a different doctor. chronic sleep deprivation eats your body, slowly.

[WeRQ4U]

19. Kind of. I'm diabetic and occasionally I get low BS and start seeing shit

Stars, bubbles. And then I start talking in nonsensicals. One time my friends found me walking around the salad bar at the local grocery market, lost. They bought me a huge chocolate brownie and then I was fine. Sucks.