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Have you ever seen a hallucination?
I saw a giraffe at my workplace once after driving 23 hours and reporting for duty with no sleep.
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October 12, 2009 01:38 AM
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First off, you "have" hallucinations, you don't "see" hallucinations. To hallucinate is a verb, not a noun, so you have hallucinations. Grammar lesson over.
I've been around people who were having them due to Delirium Tremens from alcohol abuse, and it's very frightening for them. Hallucinations can cause people to actually have strokes or heart attacks if they are frightening enough. The people I saw who were in DT's were terrified and had to be sedated.
I have had an auditory hallucination called "musical ear syndrome". The cause is unknown, but it's thought to be caused by hearing loss in older people. Mine was caused by Prozac. You can hear music or people talking, but it's like it's in another faraway room, and you can't make out the words. Sometimes it sounds like a radio program. Once it was like a choir that just kept singing and singing and never stopped. I got to where I could sometimes decide which songs it would be that I heard, so I would know what the words were.
When I stopped taking Prozac, it went away, and it's never returned.
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I've been around people who were having them due to Delirium Tremens from alcohol abuse, and it's very frightening for them. Hallucinations can cause people to actually have strokes or heart attacks if they are frightening enough. The people I saw who were in DT's were terrified and had to be sedated.
I have had an auditory hallucination called "musical ear syndrome". The cause is unknown, but it's thought to be caused by hearing loss in older people. Mine was caused by Prozac. You can hear music or people talking, but it's like it's in another faraway room, and you can't make out the words. Sometimes it sounds like a radio program. Once it was like a choir that just kept singing and singing and never stopped. I got to where I could sometimes decide which songs it would be that I heard, so I would know what the words were.
When I stopped taking Prozac, it went away, and it's never returned.
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• Even though you were wrong about my grammar beingin incorrect, I liked you answer best. So there. I hope you never "see" a hallucination, "having" them is probably bad enough. Just kidding. Have a great day.
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October 11, 2009 07:49 PM
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That's really weird! :D
I would probably see a lot if my friends got their way! (cough hemp cough*) I don't use that stuff cause I value my mind and body too much.
I have had ghost sightings, like once I was home alone and I was going to take a shower so all the lights were off, except for the one in the bathroom.
I swear I saw a shadow running through the dark living room.
I just tried to ignore it and went to take a shower.
Later, while the water was running I thought I heard voices or a voice. But I told myself it was just a hallucination and don't like to think much about it.
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I would probably see a lot if my friends got their way! (cough hemp cough*) I don't use that stuff cause I value my mind and body too much.
I have had ghost sightings, like once I was home alone and I was going to take a shower so all the lights were off, except for the one in the bathroom.
I swear I saw a shadow running through the dark living room.
I just tried to ignore it and went to take a shower.
Later, while the water was running I thought I heard voices or a voice. But I told myself it was just a hallucination and don't like to think much about it.
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October 11, 2009 10:57 PM
Ehem, hemp is not marijuana. The THC content is negligible and is only banned so that logging companies can continue to destroy forests. It used to be illegal to refuse to grow it.
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October 11, 2009 09:32 PM
that's funny stuff right there.
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October 11, 2009 10:30 PM
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Yes I have. And never again do I want to repeat that experience. Let's just say I was herbally medicated. At a relative's wedding. And too much of a good thing (or should I say bad thing?) led to a very freaky wedding experience where the whole wedding turned into a rock video.
I'm sure my eyes were wide and freaked out through the whole service. Thank god I kept quiet and still (it's all I could focus on: "Just don't move, it's almost over"). Lots of swirling colors, lots of dancers that weren't really there up at the altar. It was even an audio hallucination, there were way more instruments that the church organ playing!
Never again, my friends. Never again.
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I'm sure my eyes were wide and freaked out through the whole service. Thank god I kept quiet and still (it's all I could focus on: "Just don't move, it's almost over"). Lots of swirling colors, lots of dancers that weren't really there up at the altar. It was even an audio hallucination, there were way more instruments that the church organ playing!
Never again, my friends. Never again.
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October 11, 2009 10:53 PM
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Pst, Marijuana doesn't cause hallucinations well at least for most people :P Shrooms, Acid and Wormwood do however, wormwood only on occasion. Being that I've tried all three (wormwood being the only one I found enjoyable) I have had hallucinations. I'd equate them to dreaming while awake. Things going on in parts of the brain become projected on to reality.
For instance once outside on a cold Alaska night I saw the stars come down for the sky and become a wolf, they ate a rabbit I was watching. Probably because I was thinking about wolves because I saw one of their main food sources so out in the open...
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For instance once outside on a cold Alaska night I saw the stars come down for the sky and become a wolf, they ate a rabbit I was watching. Probably because I was thinking about wolves because I saw one of their main food sources so out in the open...
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October 11, 2009 11:20 PM
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Oddly enough, Neocitran gives me hallucinations. It IS one of the effects of overdose, but I get hallucinations after even 1/2 or 1/3 of a packet when normal dose is up to 2 packets. I must be allergic to that stuff or something - I get headaches, hallucination, and shakes all over.
The hallucinations are never nice ones - they're always odd thing, like flying heads or random disjointed shapes and colors. Sometimes they're a little scary (monsters) but at least I know where they're coming from. I keep forgetting and just take it when I'm feeling rough, but I need to stop - it always makes me feel disgusting. It's really more of an annoyance than anything as it usually keeps me awake as well.
I also get the odd hallucination from migraines. I suffer from frequent migraines - most aren't bad, but the particularly bad ones come with an "aura".. it's not so much a vision, but random sparks of colors. I always see lines traveling down anything patterned (pages of type, for example) or sometimes fireworks. My mother gets the same.
If you want to hear about crazy visions, talk to someone who's done Salvia. The only reason I mention it is because it IS legal (at least in Canada) and can be bought at almost any corner store - if it weren't legal I wouldn't talk about it. Though I've never done it myself, many of my friends have, and they've had some crazy descriptions the next day... anything from swimming down the stairs from sharks, the world dissolving into cubes with knives through them, to world war II, living inside Comic books, and carnivals in the heating vent. Absolutely ridiculous stories I've heard.
Enjoy!
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The hallucinations are never nice ones - they're always odd thing, like flying heads or random disjointed shapes and colors. Sometimes they're a little scary (monsters) but at least I know where they're coming from. I keep forgetting and just take it when I'm feeling rough, but I need to stop - it always makes me feel disgusting. It's really more of an annoyance than anything as it usually keeps me awake as well.
I also get the odd hallucination from migraines. I suffer from frequent migraines - most aren't bad, but the particularly bad ones come with an "aura".. it's not so much a vision, but random sparks of colors. I always see lines traveling down anything patterned (pages of type, for example) or sometimes fireworks. My mother gets the same.
If you want to hear about crazy visions, talk to someone who's done Salvia. The only reason I mention it is because it IS legal (at least in Canada) and can be bought at almost any corner store - if it weren't legal I wouldn't talk about it. Though I've never done it myself, many of my friends have, and they've had some crazy descriptions the next day... anything from swimming down the stairs from sharks, the world dissolving into cubes with knives through them, to world war II, living inside Comic books, and carnivals in the heating vent. Absolutely ridiculous stories I've heard.
Enjoy!
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October 17, 2009 08:42 PM
Salvia has a number of YouTube videos. quite entertaining.
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October 12, 2009 08:06 AM
Other than the giraffe at work, I had one other hallucination. Like yours, it was on a long road trip. I saw a witch (black pointy hat and everything) standing beside the road. Others in the car saw nothing. weird.
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October 12, 2009 08:15 PM
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I have had an odd experience as a child. I don't think it would be classified as a hallucination, since I believe I was asleep during the time of occurrence, but it was strange nevertheless. As a child I grew up with many cats. One day my grey cat Fritzi went missing and after he had been missing for almost a week I grew very worried that something bad had happened to him. Then one night, about 10 days after he went missing I had this dream that I was asleep in my bedroom with the window open. All of a sudden Fritzi jumped through the window and onto my bed meowing. When I lifted him up, I noticed that his stomach area was cut and I ended up reaching into a gapping hole in his body, feeling his insides. I screamed and dropped him at which point he broke apart at his midsection. this is when I woke up. A few more days passed and one day I remember waking up from an afternoon nap on our couch and overheard my mom and stepdad talking in the next room. My mom had voiced concern over Fritzi being missing for so long and my stepdad told her: "Well to tell you the truth, I didn't want to tell you and Diana (me), but when I was mowing the lawn a week ago I saw something grey laying in the grass. I went over and it was Fritzi...". My cat had been out and about in the fields where farmers worked with their tractors and ended up getting caught in one of the sharp blades used to cut the crop. My stepdad told my mom that Fritzi was cut in half right above the waist and had successfully drug himself back home and passed out in the tall grass in front of our house. When my stepdad found him, Fritzi was still alive, but there was no way he would have lived. My stepdad had tried to pick him up and bring him into the garage, but Fritzi bit his hand hard while in shock and soon thereafter he died. Listening to his story, I remembered the day that my stepdad had cut the grass and asked me to bring him a bandage. He had lied and told me at the time that he had cut his hand on the lawn mower. Thinking back, it seemed that I had my dream around the same time that my stepdad had found my cat in the grass.
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http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/hallucination
The term "see hallucinations" is quite common and proper. Here is one example from Encyclopaedia Britannica online (you can find thousands more):
"Irritation of the occipital lobe causes the subject to see hallucinations"
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/252916/hallucination/252916rellinks/Related-Links
Perhaps you are hearing voices telling you to correct nonexistent rules of grammar and usage. I suggest you ignore them.
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