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

[DanielBrown]

Can only remember two times I've had some sort of hallucinations. Both were pretty horrible.
The first time I was sleeping in a couch next to a friend after a party. Woke up in the morning(it was dark though, we were in a basement) and saw all my friends sitting around the room. Started talking to them but got no response.
After a while I realised that none of them were actually moving. They were just sitting around, frozen and backs against me. Luckily I was still a bit drunk, so I went back to sleep, but as I'm typing this goose bumps and chills are going through my body.

The second time I was sleeping at home. It's possible that I had been out drinking before as well. Anyways, I woke in the middle of the night and saw my girlfriend laying next to me. As I tried to touch her I just fell through and landed on my face. Belive I also saw a friend in the room. Both of them frozen up with backs against me.

Starting to wonder if people drugged me on occasion during the parties.
Curious on the significance between the hallicinations, since they both played out the same. Must've been at least half a year between them.

Another thing that fits the topic is side effects to drugs.
When I started eating anti-depressants, to help with my social phobia, my brain got pretty fucked up. My dreams became extremely vivid and boring, most often just portraying my life. Sometimes I dreamed about which shirt to wear, sometimes I was playing a game or speaking to a friend. This made my real life pretty confusing. I started fights with my few remaining friends because I couldn't tell the difference between realities and my internal clock kind of came to a stop.
Remember one time, when I was playing WoW with a RL friend, I suggested we'd do a specific instance. He told me we had just done it an hour ago, but in my mind it was four days ago. Ended up having a huge fight because I was absolutely certain on my point.

It wore off eventually, but not before my friends couldn't stand me anymore. Still have the vivid dreams from time to time(been three years since I started taking the pills).

 

[Crazy Zaul]

Your unconscious has good taste in hallucinations. Say hi to Pete for me.

 

[RJ Dalton]

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

 

[Chalacachaca]

... What exactly are you taking then? I want some of that.

 

[Imthatguy]

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

 

[The Funslinger]

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]

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

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.

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

all you have to do is picture a hot person giving you a lapdance, and you will be completely fine.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

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]

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.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

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]

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]

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]

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.

 

[bladester1]

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]

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 :/