Hallucinations

[{sarah}]

I've bee wondering if I'm the only weirdo LOL! Does anyone have hallucinations when they are ill? It always happens just as I'm getting sick, so maybe the day before I have any symptoms & it can be a minor illness like a cold that will cause it.

I remember some of them quite vividly, even from when I was little. I had always thought I was dreaming, having nightmares but mum assures me I was fully awake & hallucinating. Most of the time things will become skewed. I'll be sitting say watching TV & all of a sudden I'll feel like the TV has suddenly moved back a few metres and I'll feel a bit light headed. I'll also be confused & not understand what people are talking about to me, even if it's a simple conversation.

Other times I've seen creatures, like scary made up creatures, which is why I thought they were nightmares. One of them was so scary, a face looking at me through a window, that I can't deal with having open curtains in my room overnight. I haven't had any bad ones like that for a while, but 2 weeks ago when I started to get my cold I had the TV moving backwards sensation & I saw 2 spiders on the ceiling.

The scary thing is that I think Zander has inherited it as well. When he was sick a few weeks ago with a tummy bug he was doing some strange things. He was sitting on the floor shouting "go away" to something that just wasn't there and was also very confused & didn't know what he wanted.

[paradise lost]

This is gonna sound really odd sarah but have you ever gotten them when you're drunk?

B

[{sarah}]

Mmmmm, my eyes go funny when drunk & distance are a bit odd, but no real hallucinations. Then again I'm not a big drinker & have probably only been drunk 4 or 5 times ever. How come?

[LisaBear]

i have something like that sarah,
i see things really vividly and everything is really loud and itslike i am on a boat.
most of the times its a little leprachaun trying to scratch me.. i always get them wheni am in the beginning of bein sick - like fever and feeling lousy.... so your not weird - or maybe we both are

[~Jo~]

Oh I do i do. I used to do the strangest things when I was sick...so much so that my parents actually believed i was reacting to paracetemol because it always coincided when I was sick and given it...well derr..but my dds do the same thing as well! Its the most bizarrest feeling..mine is more of becoming smaller and smaller in a room..like a tiny minescule object..its the most horrible feeling.

Jo

[Mother Goose]

I get the distance perception thing Sarah. I've always thought it had to do with fluid on the ears (I get it with hay fever) as this can alter depth perception. As can a shift in fluid balance around the eyes (as I got in pregnancy). The hallucinations could, theoretically, be fluid on certain parts of the brain I guess. You could always check it out at the doc...

ETA: Try upping your fluid intake when you start getting sick. Dehydration is a very common cause of hallucinations

[paradise lost]

Well my (psychic) grandmother would tell you that when you are ill the infection allows various other "realities" to show more visually than when you're well (we learn to shut these things out as children when people say "who do you mean?" as we point and garble-chat to people no-one else can see) because your life force has to sort of swell to fight the infection. Or something - she has a very logical and convincing way of putting it but i can't remember it all. But if it happens when you're drunk then it's not psychic ability because alcohol dampens the ability to see these things (which is why the countries with the highest (anecdotal) incidence of psychic abilities are also the most alcoholic - Scotland, Russia, Poland etc).

Do you know it isn't real when it happens, or does it overtake reality? It does happen to me, not as much as it used to and not only when i'm ill - usually when i'm overtired and, as gran would put it, my walls come down. She always told me not to worry too much about it and to remember that what ever we see, in whatever reality, is incidental to where we are looking at that particular moment in time, and NOT a message demanding attention. Esme obviously has it and refers lots to "gannah" - which is what my (late) mother called herself to the grandkids.

Bit odd, should have put this in "5 things we didn't know about you". LOL.

Bec

[{sarah}]

mine is more of becoming smaller and smaller in a room..like a tiny minescule object..its the most horrible feeling.

Jo mine is very very similar, but more so that things get further & further away! And YAY I'm not the only nutter

Bec not totally weird IMO, my grandmother was psychic as well so nothing would surprise me. I have a bizarre link with my dad (it was his mother) in that I can hear his dreams sometimes, I don't see what's going on but can certainly hear it. So much so that I honestly think he has been talking & I was hearing him & not asleep. It was very very real.

[paradise lost]

In that case Sarah i'd be inclined to say you were a little ExtraSpecialPerson and you're probably seeing things which have or will happen or certain aspects of things which aren't usually "there".

Mine is to get big, not small. LOL. I can do a great trick. I did it a lot in my teens - i used to sit cross-legged on my bed holding a length of string or ribbon (about 1metre of red ribbon was my favourite) between thumb and fingertip of each hand, stretched out, and let the bigness come until one end of the ribbon was me and the other end was someone i wanted to talk to (it was usually my boyfriend, i did it in 2002 to my now DP - he was only an aquaintance in those days) and the ribbon was the distance between us (the weirdest part of the bigness feeling is that my face stays the same size (?!) and i can feel my mouth getting smaller and smaller until it's so tiny i know i won't be able to speak). Then I'd concentrate on my message (always positive - usually "i love you" or "i want you" or whatever) and whoever it was would always dream of me. It never failed. I stopped because one night i did with my Mum and she immediately phoned me (she wasn't sleeping) distressed saying she'd been dozing and felt my arms round her and thought i'd died and come to say goodbye. She was terminally ill and it all got too scary then, i was most worried she'd "drop in" after death as i don't know how i'd cope. In fact i've dreamed of her a few times but nothing more, though i'm sure Esme sees and chats to her all the time.

I remember when i was a kid i used to lie semi-awake in Mum and dad's room (in bed with them after a bad dream) and watch "all the little people" marching round the room. Not scary at the time but it'd terrify me now! LOL.

B

[AnyDream]

Yep definite on the hallucinations - but only with very high temperatures. I remember lying on the mattress in the spare bedroom at grandma's as a child with tonsillitis, I though they were having a party cos the room was filled with people partying and dancing all around me. LOL

[Amity]

OMG some other people have the same "wierdness" as I do... I SO understand about the whole "getting smaller and smaller in the room", as well as "the walls are closing in on me" hallucinations! But like you, only when I'm getting really sick. How strange!

[{sarah}]

Glad to hear I'm not the only nutter ROFL! And not the only one that thinks it's crazy hehe!

Mine's not due to high temps either, I rarely get a temp when I'm sick. I'm a little odd!!

[Amity]

I don't get the temps, but do get the hallucinations. Hmmm... Maybe we're related... (or psychic...)

[*charmalea*]

oh gosh ... this has brought up childhood memories , i used to get them when i was sick and i be petrefied .. i used to see a bald head with only a few strands of hair on it and a huge giant hand plucking them out and i could feel it happening to me .... and also a friend at time used to call my name out ... mum said i would be in a trance and to call back to her ... at the time i was scared

even thinking about them now im scared ... it hasnt happened since childhood ... but there are times where i stop myself in between that half asleep state and think about someting till it becomes almost real and it feels like im there ... like a sale at myers or a beach ... but i mainly do it with the book im reading at the time ... i think about the setting/situation and put myself in it and its soo real ... then i can pull my self out of it kwim ... (prob not ... coz i dont !!)

it was always when i was sick as a child .. i used to draw the hallucination and then burn it , it made me feel a great release !!