Ever hallucinated?

[MiddleFingerMom]

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I can think of two times offhand. Once, I was attacked by a man later diagnosed as having
methampetamine psychosis in our Dispensary. Before I knew it, I was on my back helpless
and he had his thumbs on my windpipe. I was starting to black out -- was actually seeing
large spots. My head was back and I could see upside-down down the long hallway. One of
my co-workers was running towards me to help, yelling for MORE help, and I suh-WEAR he was
dressed in full Captain America garb. Don't remember him having the shield, though. Serious.
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Other time (there are undoubtedly more that I'm not thinking of right now), I was... affected...
and a friend and I went for a long walk. A tactile hallucination -- I felt like Mr Natural (the
long-bearded "Keep On Truckin'" guy). Each step I took was about 20 feet long. No surprise
or shock or amazement -- it was the most natural thing in the world.
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How about you? Altered perceptions... altered states?
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[graywarrior]

1. Every morning when I wake up

[BurtWorm]

2. I could swear I'm sitting in front of a 17" rectangle asking me if I've ever hallucinated.

Can it really be asking me that? Do I wake or do I dream...?

[frogmarch]

3. During an episode of

sleep paralysis, Jesus tried to cut out my brain.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Captain America kicks ass.

You owe him one.

[proteus_lives]

32. He does.

Cap is like Flash Gordon. He stands for everyone of us.

[HopeHoops]

5. Does dancing naked with a salad shooter count?

:shrug:

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. Duh...

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[SoxFan]

15. Not in The Lounge

[MajorChode]

17. It does unless you're talking about a vegan with diarrhea

In that case it's just kinky.

:hide:

[abq e streeter]

6. Never--I'm absolutely convinced they were all real

[Old Troop]

8. When I was at the worst point of malaria,

I think I hallucinated quite a bit. God I miss those days.

[struggle4progress]

9. Nowadays, only rarely, when my brain partially awakes at night

and discovers that it is still partially dreaming: Wait a minute! I think there's supposed to be a wall there, not a circus! WTF! Hey! I must be partly awake and partly dreaming! Oh, c'mon guy, wake up!

[arbusto_baboso]

10. In the hospital once on heavy painkillers....

Swore I saw a panther in my room ready to pounce on me.

[hunter]

11. Throw in some major depressive disorder, a dash of autism, and have some fun.

:party:

It took me nine years to graduate from college. I can laugh (somewhat nervously...) about my misadventures since I was rarely a danger to myself or others, but it would've been nicer to know what was going on.

That was many years ago. Simply having a diagnosis then would have helped, and modern meds are even better.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. Many times.

LSD was my drug of choice for a while.

[tango-tee]

29. Those were the days, my friend.

I remember sitting on the bank of a canal in Amsterdam, circa 1970, feet dangling just above the water. Higher than a kite on acid, hearing music coming from somewhere. I have no idea whether the music came from inside of my head or was "real" - but it was pretty. Very, very peaceful.

I was sitting underneath a tree and looked at one particular leaf. That leaf consisted of thousands of tiny mosaics. Beautiful colors, moving and flowing into each other, changing shapes. Then, along came this sweet little black-haired girl with her mother, and they started singing a little tune. The leaf danced to the rhythm of the song.

After they left, I could still hear the tune, couldn't get it out my head. It was there... at first so sweet, but getting louder and more annoying as the hours went by, until my head was ready to explode from the screeching of that damn song.

[Blue_In_AK]

34. Yes, '67 to '74 or so.

We experienced amazing sights and sounds, didn't we? :hippie:

Last October my husband and I were in San Francisco for the Westfest and stayed with my old hippie friend from those days, who still lives in the City in an old Victorian on Portrero Hill. She had acquired some sugar cubes for the occasion and we tripped all day in Golden Gate Park just like the old days. It was great. :) I still love that psychedelic mindset even now.

[tango-tee]

36. You go, girl!

Given the right circumstances, I wouldn't mind... hmmm, partaking again.

:hippie: :thumbsup:

[MajorChode]

13. Not since the last time I hung out with Don Juan Matus

[Swede]

14. I did a lot of LSD back in the day.

So,yeah.

[unpossibles]

24. I tried it hundreds of times but I never swallowed....

and that's the story I'm sticking with... ;)

[lightningandsnow]

16. Minor hallucinations, when I'm really depressed or otherwise fucked up.

I'm on antipsychotic medication (I have bipolar II and it's my mood stabilizer) and an antidepressant, so I don't anymore. Yay. :)

[SoxFan]

18. Only the mild hypnogogic variety

One time, my Army unit was on a training exercise that included hiding in an ambush position for what seemed like forever during the wee hours. At one point, I heard voices, and switched my weapon off of safe. As it turned out, there wasn't anyone there, as I realized when I suddenly popped out of the weird trance state.

This is why it's common practice to have people double up during night ops. An occasional whack on the shoulder or "hey, you" can keep the brain from acting funky.

Of course, I know people who went through Ranger and Marine Force Recon training who have really off the wall stories, including one who repeatedly had the "HEY, KOOL-AID" guy running through the perimeter.

[Duer 157099]

19. Yes

Once was during the Sylmar earthquake which woke me up and I "saw" the contents of the bathroom medicine cabinet being emptied all over the floor by the violent shaking (the bathroom was directly across from my bedroom so it was in eyeshot).

Only problem was that after the shaking stopped and I went to examine the damage, nothing had actually happened. It was completely a construct of my brain at the time. To this day, it puzzles me, and I'm tempted to consider the "parallel universe" scenario, wherein my consciousness jumped into another reality for a few moments.

Also, every time I get a migraine, I hallucinate but they call it a "visual aura."

And those are just the non-drug-induced times.

[hobbit709]

20. More times than I can count

[Skip Intro]

21. How can you be 100% sure you're not hallucinating now? ;) Yep, ben there a few times...

Once I sat outside a bar after dropping, couldn't go in with my friends because I was just overwhelmed by the trip, and sitting there for God knows how long, I watched the side of the building change colors.

A different time I watched the kitchen cabinets slowly sink down the wall and into the floor.

A different time I watched trees talk to each other.

On X, I saw one ceiling fan multiply into several.

On Peyote, I didn't see inanimate objects move, but I did see all that was around me become so vivid and vital - colors so rich and deep they seemed to leap out at me. Very cool.

Then there were the Hawaiian Baby Woodrose Seeds. After I puked my guts up (which I was praying to do because I had become so nauseous) I watched shadows dance on the wall.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

22. Yes

true story.

[conscious evolution]

23. All the time

I keep finding myself on some planetoid the locals call earth.Scary place.Scary people.

[Odin2005]

25. Several times while meditating.

No voices, but some freaky-weird and occasionally terrifying visual hallucinations, the worst where ones involving death and dying which occurred following my stepdad's death.

[WCGreen]

26. I was in an Atavin and Morphine induced coma for almost 2 weeks...

In that time, I had all sorts adventures that ranged from writing a screen play with Paul Newman in this really cool retreat in the mountains of Colorado to being in vietnam with Spider-man's boss's son...

I remember my doctor coming in every day and asking me if I knew who the president was and he told me that I couldn't tell him. One day he came in and I croaked the ass hole and he smiled and said I was getting better.

FYI, Bush 2 was president at the time.

They had the TV on all the time and this one Time I remember a Spanish version of The Drew Carey Show was on and I thought it was a documentary about the Anti-Christ. Don't get me started about where Zoolander and Con air took me.

In all these imagined scenarios I couldn't talk and was always being wheeled around in a bed but still somehow being a part of what was going on inside my head.

[Robeson]

27. Sure. Back in the old acid days, many times.

[WCGreen]

30. well, there was that too.....

[tango-tee]

33. You and me both.

But right now it seems that it was in another lifetime. I can't believe that was *me* - and now here I am, looking forward to retirement.

[BlueJazz]

28. I used to eat a lot of ..ahh..Oranges....and had (and Loved) many Adventures.

It was Wonderful. :)

[Blue_In_AK]

35. Sunshine?

[proteus_lives]

31. Yep, when I had pneumonia really bad.

Didn't sleep for 3 days and things got strange.

[REP]

37. With a high enough fever, I take notes a check later when I feel more lucid

Sometimes it's just phone calls I didn't have; sometimes books have Bonus Scenes. I read The Shining when I had the Russian flu and chicken pox when I was 16; that book came alive. The movie wasn't nearly as creepy.

I was terribly sleep deprived for years (untreated sleep apnea; I'd been told I was "too young, too thin and too female" to have it ...wrong). The worst was just blacking out like I was narcoleptic, but sometimes I'd have REM intrusion, which is a lot like hallucinating. I'd be awake but in full REM, knowing what I was saying was nonsense that had nothing to do with anything, but unable to do anything about it - like being on a runaway train, but with less carnage.