Have you ever had a hallucination? What was it like?

by Nathan Natas 82 Replies latest watchtower medical

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  NewYork44M

  Nathan, that was a bit rude, I did not mean to offend - I really didn't, I lived a very sheltered life.

  God bless...
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  talesin

  In my teens, a very high fever and illness for several weeks, and I saw huge white maggot-like things crawling up the wall. It freaked my roommates out ...

  I don't remember much after that until my recovery several months later.

  Of course, I've had strange things happen during that waking state, like sleep paralysis, but doesn't everyone? Well, mostly.... ;)

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  Mum

  To me, saying that you believe most hallucinations are drug-induced is similar to saying you believe obesity is a result of consuming too many calories. Where is the "judgment" in that? It squares with the facts in most cases.
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  Comatose

  Jeffro you are right. I looked into it after it happened, but let me tell you, at the time it was terrible. lol
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  Comatose

  Another one, once in a dream I was solving an impossibly big math problem (well impossibly big for me). it was a giant number in the millions multiplied by another huge number. But, I was doing the math. I felt myself going crazy then too. I knew while dreaming I couldn't solve the problem, but I was and the strain on my brain was making me go insane. I knew I had to wake up. I woke myself and still in the just wakened state kept solving it. Also terrifying.
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  Violia

  Scully, I have had things like that happen in the years I worked . I just don't believe they are happenstance.

  Thank you and whoever alerted you to that babies distress.
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  NewYork44M

  I am not a doctor - I just play one on TV. Where did that phrase come from?

  Everyone please calm down. I apologize from the bottom of my heart. I retract any comments I have made in regards to this post.

  God bless one and all...
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  talesin

  "To me, saying that you believe most hallucinations are drug-induced is similar to saying you believe obesity is a result of consuming too many calories. Where is the "judgment" in that? It squares with the facts in most cases"

  No offense intended, but I would suggest you research. This is not so ... fatigue, thirst, illness ... there are many causes of hallucination that do no involve drugs.

  ;)

  EDIT: Hey, 44M, it's okay. This probably is a subject that can use clarification. Relax ....
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  Nathan Natas

  Lest anyone think me a cad for being rude to a woman, permit me to explain that NewYork44M is a GUY, not a woman as his avatar suggests.

  I appreciate the many fascinating contributions to this thread, and I remembered that when I was younger I would sometimes wake up in an emotional mood - happy and expectant or really really angry - based on the events that unfolded in my dreams just prior to waking up. These weren't hallucinations, but emotional states predicated by dreams.

  When my wife was very young she often experienced NIGHT TERRORS with images that would do Alfred Hitchcock proud. She once had an open-eyed vision of gigantic bubbles slowly sliding down her bedroom wall.
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  Violia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

  many of the things that go bump in the night can be attributed to these.