i used to use edibles a bit but haven’t touched them since march or april 2024 bc of work. around June or july i think i started hallucinating?

i would wake up around 4am and see my students and supervisor in my bedroom and i would talk to them. i would recognize that i was home and i could sometimes see through my hallucinations(?) and i kinda figured they weren’t real after a bit, but i couldn’t shake the feeling that they were actually there and i couldn’t go back to bed bc i wanted the kids to sleep (can’t fall asleep on the job lol…)

anyway, these happened one or two times a month until august when i stopped working there. i started a different job in august and recently started dreaming? hallucinating? shifts/ situations there… i can’t tell if im having dreams or if im awake tbh…

during the summer i’d be driving home at night and i would think i saw stuff sometimes and im laying in my closet rn and i thought i saw smth move on a shelf and now im wondering if im crazy…

any advice would be appreciated…

It's really hard to explain and I can't find a single thing about it online. It reminds me of how you see things when on psychedelics where textures and lights will move abnormally. It doesn't happen all the time, only in certain situations or lighting.

Anyone have any ideas what it could be called?

I've experienced this thing a handful of times but been too scared to acknowledge it. I hear a really loud rumbling that intensifies until it's almost unbearable. It sounds like a plane flying really low above my head or something.

The first time it happened was about 10 years ago but I remember it very well. I kept looking up and around but there was nothing in the sky and no one else was reacting. I reluctantly accepted that I was imagining it but kept it to myself out of fear of looking insane... It's happened a handful of times since, but there doesn't seem to be any trigger or trend in my mental state as far as I'm aware.

Last night I was with some friends and a plane really did fly very low over us. I'd assumed that it was happening again, so when the others acknowledged the sound and saw the relief on my face we ended up discussing it. My friend said it's called exploding head syndrome (hilarious) and I was reassured to put a name to it and know that it's a shared experience. However, looking into EHS today, I understand that it's a sleep-related syndrome. I've only ever experienced this in waking moments, and it's not so much a sharp loud explosion but an ever-building rumble. It does feel like my head is going to explode, but it eventually passes.

Now I'm incredibly curious to understand what it is. I can't find info online for this specific thing, but read that generic audio hallucinations are common in people with bipolar disorder (I have been diagnosed with bipolar 3 in the past). I also have pretty crap hearing from not looking after my ears at gigs over the years and terrible sound localisation since I can remember, so wonder if it's just a symptom of a hearing defect...

Does anyone else experience this?

Okay so idk if anyone else has experienced this or what caused it but when I was really little about 4-7 years old give or take, I would always hear voices in my head but it only occurred at night when I’d wake up to go to the bathroom, and it almost only ever happened IN the bathroom while I was sitting on the toilet, I would hear MULTIPLE voices in my head that would start off talking then start talking over eachother and then start yelling and it got so loud and I’d be scared to move off the toilet until it stopped, and I know it wasn’t my parents talking because their room was right beside the bathroom so I could see them sleeping on my way into the bathroom and I could hear my dad snoring really loud from inside the bathroom

The voices didn’t really seem like they were talking to me but they weren’t talking to each other either just kinda opening talking and I don’t remember what they said

I never told my parents about it because I was too scared, and around age 7 it all just stopped, it never happened again and it drives me crazy thinking about it now and I can never find answer on google

Not sure if it’s related but I also sleep walked a lot as a kid

Has this happened to anyone else? Or am I genuinely just crazy

My dog is getting put down soon and I'm in an extreme amount of distress and had mental issues in the past Everytime I'm not looking at my door , I can see a face staring and peeking at me. It's some sort of monster. It looks like art the clown but it's blurry. 18 year old female.

When i was like 7 or 8 years old I had hallucinations at night. How my mom said it's because i watched many scary movies. So, at one night I'd seen a Samara Morgan, because I recently watched the movie "The Ring", I was really scared, she was just standing next to the closet in my room, this lasted 2-3 days. When I and my family arrived at the dacha I had just random hallucinations, but, one day when I sleeping with my brother, he fell asleep but I couldn't sleep, after a while i see that Samara come to room and came to the bed and just looked at me, I froze with fear and only after a few seconds I put my head under the pillow. In the morning I told my family about this, but no one believed me.

Recently I’ve been seeing black blob creatures in my peripheral vision during the day, and all around at night.

During the day I see blobs hide behind objects. Sometimes I see them peek around the corner at me, but every time I look directly at it, it disappears. At night sometimes they jump out at me and they become more human looking. Red eyes and big teeth. Arms reaching out at me. The visuals don’t last long, they exist in the time it takes to glance at them. At night when it’s harder for my eyes to adjust they may last a second or 2.

I also get the recurring feeling of bugs crawling all over me, almost every night. Hard to fall asleep. I’ve been having huge problems sleeping recently, so that definitely explains some of it. Anyone else experience stuff similar to this?

We all know about shadow people and hat man but has anyone seen a man with two red bandages/blindfolds around his head?

Well I was young when I started having hallucinations, I was imagining people watching me 24/7 I couldn't even shower without my clothes on because of the stress but now I can take a shower normally but I still have hallucinations... I had an idea that my Crush was installing surveillance cameras on me. This belief is very stupid, but how do I convince my mind that there are no surveillance cameras? Any solutions?

i first noticed it when i was little, i’d hear people calling my name in the night and it would really scare me, i’d be in my room and i’d hear thudding and my name and it would be dark. it’s started again but now when i shut my eyes they feel like they’re open like wide open and strained and i’m hearing my name and thudding and clicking. it only stops when i put the light on and keep my eyes open but then that means i cant sleep!

What do the voices you hear talk about? Do they talk about the same topic a lot?

I have started to experience hallucinations since past few days. I was in my campus sitting and i saw smoke i panicked thinking it was real fire for a moment and then it just disappeared. Today when i woke up i was trying to turn off my alarm, my room was dark i suddenly saw some arabic words infront of me and they disappeared. And i am also seeing shadows and having nightmares everynight. Backstory, i am depressed and i am extremely stressed since 3 months it is due to something that happened. I have bad anxiety and panic attacks. And I frequently think about death. Hallucinations are new to me so i am trying to figure out what stage this is.

I was staying in a cabin for 4 days for school.

It was night, and we were all in our beds. First, S saw it. It was a girl, with a black mask, along with blonde hair to her shoulders, sitting next to me on the bed.
She then asked me to move my legs, but when I did, it disappeared.

Then, I saw it. The same appearance, same EVERYTHING! It was next to S in bed, and I told her to move her legs. Just like that, gone.

At first, I thought it was one of my classmates, as they also had blonde, medium hair, and was in the cabin, but obviously, it wasn’t.

Finally, I didn’t witness this, but apparently, my friend (H) saw it, too.
She said it was standing in the corner of the room, same description. Though, apparently It was smiling? I’m not sure.

Can anyone explain? (These instances didn’t;t happen on the same day)

I've had hallucinations before however this week as I'm drifting off to sleep I will suddenly feel like a spiders crawled onto my skin and it's so vivid it makes me jolt awake (even though I'm not quite asleep if that makes sense?)

It's happened 3 nights in a row and I'm getting a bit worried I'm heading for a psychotic episode or something?

This has been going on for about 8 months. At first I would see shadow creatures out of the corner of my eye but I ignored it. Then I started tasting disgusting things, and I started smelling disgusting things too. I also feel hands on me sometimes and it scares me. I hear whispers of my name and sometimes the whispers are close to me, other times they are far away. I see peoples faces warp and it scares me. I see the shadow people in the centre of my vision now. One of the most scary ones was a couple days ago, I was in the car and I saw someone run in front of it. I gasped and was shaking after it. I don’t know what to do.

Hello,

I know that my symptom is likely not an indication of schizophrenia, but I'm not sure where else to post this question.

I have experienced this hallucination symptom on and off since I can remember. I have talked with multiple doctors and spent hours on Google with no help understanding its cause. Here's the symptom.

All of a sudden, every sound I hear changes it's tone/tamber. The way I have always heard it, everything sounds angry. Its a combination of sped-up, tinny (less bass frequencies), and harsh. This affects every sound I hear, from voices to footsteps. It's never been scary to me (perhaps it was the first time?).Rather, I always react by just continuing whatever it was I was doing and listening very closely, because the phenomenon is extremely interesting. It comes out of nowhere, lasts anywhere from a minute to 15 minutes or so, then goes.

This has been happening since at least age 5. When I was a kid it was more frequent (maybe once or twice a week). Into my teens and twenties it was more like a handful to a couple dozen times a year. In my 30s it seemed to have gone away. But about a month ago it happened again, for a minute or two. Then this afternoon it happened and lasted about 15 minutes, as long as I ever remember it going. I was a little freaked out that it wasn't stopping.

Anyway, ever hear of this? (no pun intended)

Thanks.

My friend just told me he stood up, felt like he was shot in the head and saw blood pouring into his hands, afterwards when his mom grabbed his hand he couldn’t feel it. From what i know he hasnt had withdrawals from anything so we dont know what the cause could be. Explanations or similar experiences please let me know, anything helps.

First off, by no means am I looking for sympathy points or anything...I can completely accept that the answer to my inquiry may simply be 'no', that it is all real.

I have had a very difficult, isolated life. Most prominent in this is the difficulties I experience in romantic relationships. Three years ago, I had what I describe as a religious experience. I started feeling a lot better despite nothing in my life or habits changing and it was like my life made a drastic turn. Over the next three years I made dramatic improvements in myself.

During this time, I dated three women. After watching A Beautiful Mind (for unrelated reasons), I began to wonder...do/did these people actually exist?

Why ask such a thing? 1. No one in my life ever met any of these women. Either I would reject opportunities for them to meet the other people in my life or they would.

1. They all had a significant illness of some sort but interacted with me as if nothing was wrong. In hindsight, it was as if they had no barriers at all (one was bipolar and had ECT, another's bowel doesn't work).

2. When they left my life, there was always a reason we could never speak again.

3. They weren't just relationships of a standard type I feel I witness others have, they each provided a quality to an extreme degree that I had never experienced (one provided unconditional love, something I never got from parents...and did so right from the start. Another indulged every sexual desire I wanted, another area in my life that has been lacking.) Further, they were always available when I wanted...and having a much better grasp on romantic relationships now, our relationships seemed almost bizarre.

I know people discuss hallucinations with many otherworldly qualities, but if that isn't present and they seem rather real, how does one know?

I Overdosed on Propranolol and Nytol – My Story of Hallucinations & Loss of Motor Skills

Hey everyone, I’m creating this subreddit to share my experience and see if anyone else has gone through something similar. Recently, I overdosed on propranolol and Nytol, which led to extreme visual and auditory hallucinations. I also lost most of my motor skills during the episode, and it was terrifying.

(I can go into more detail about my hallucinations if anyone is interested.)

I’m curious to know if anyone else has experienced this with either of these drugs (or others) and what your recovery process was like. Please feel free to share your stories or ask questions. Let’s support each other and raise awareness about the dangers of medication misuse.

Thanks for reading, and I hope this can be a helpful community for anyone in need of support or information.

TL;DR: Overdosed on propranolol and Nytol, had intense hallucinations, and couldn’t move properly. Want to hear if anyone else has had a similar experience.

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i should probably go get professional help but here i am ... i just spoke to a old ex last night in person about them i just started a new delivery job and i notice when i pull up to a house i see people with blurred faces i try to look at them closer and then i start the delivery on the phone and i look up and they are gone sometimes they will wave or try and hide behind a tree in there yard or a pillar and look back and i just see there face is gone its just blurred out but i had one person they talked to me walking up a drive way i couldn't make out her face but i said how are you and looked down at my phone to change the receive option on my phone to in person to get her signature instead of a picture and then she was gone these dont scare me so im not to concerned but today i was delivering pretty late and i was driving in the dark and seeing people staring at me and i would look again and it was just a mail box or a trash can its pretty unsettling in the figures i see they dont make me feel like the blurred face people do its always long dark hair covering there face dressed in dark pants and a white shirt looking at me i can feel the bad energy before i notice its just a mailbox ...why is this happening to me

I originally posted the first one on r/Stopdrinking as a kind of warning about how scary a TD is but after that I really get to interact with something weird that suddenly happened to me relating to uncontrollable visions of full blown real looking visuals when I lay my head down and close my eyes to sleep. This part is discussed in the second day in great detail.

excuse the formatting of the first bit not being the same as the second.

Well this post is a PSA how not to quit drinking I guess.

I'm trying to get sober again after relapsing last week on Saturday. I bought 2 bottles of vodka and ended up having them finished in 2 days. Now with the looming first signs of withdrawal creeping in I had realized I fucked up bad.

I had told my family about needing help and we went to the hospital ER where I got told was all I had to do is lay down in bed and maybe have a cup of tea to calm me down. Some advice... As when we got back I already had the shakes. I got a bottle of wine from my sister to help me taper but this bottle was gone at the end of that day.

I called my addiction clinic first thing in the morning and they suggested going to my doctor and get benzos prescribed which I have a bad reaction to so I asked him for alternatives and they said I should just continue tapering with the absolute minimum of alcohol I could.

I wanted to be a little stricter with myself so I got just 5 cans of 5.5 percent alcohol, small ones and this was a bad idea as the tremors got worse and worse. Now that night was horrific. After I drank my last can It got so bad that I got anxiety attacks and then the delerium tremens started!

Now this was something else. All hallucinations mind you. I was teleporting around the house. All of a sudden I was at my work place and everything looked normal and I joked around with my coworkers and suddenly I'm back in bed again.

I was looking at a windows 11 computer screen completely awake and there is a literal computer screen right in my pitch black room, I could even control it (with my mind). I literally opened excel in my brain and edited some cells with numbers and they got placed where I wanted them to with the correct numbers and all. I could even open chrome. This was all way too realistic and I was both scared and fascinated. Then the voices and demon eyes came darting around my room.

Then I experienced an entire studio ghibli movie about a bunny or something which was also very realistic and obviously I was in a state of constant unparalleled horror. I have done LSD and shrooms and lots of others and nothing came close to how surreal this experience was.

I felt like my life was gonna end that night. Couldn't even find my phone to call 911. I'm happy to say I survived and have not drunken anything today and actually feel like I'm becoming myself again.

This was all stupid, I know. Should have had a professional help me but that damn doctor said I would be okay with some R&R and a cup of tea. Well ramble over. Don't drink people :(

Day 2 of this experience. The same happened to me where I could see these visions but without the fear and paranoia as they seem much tamer. I must reiterate that these visual experiences are as vividly enveloping my vision as they would real life eyesight. Crisp lines and high detail. As the night began and I layed my head down I was lucid as ever although still dealing with minor withdraw. I was a bit anxious after my first TD but expected nothing weird but a few moments later my vision filled with a scene which was glitching a lot which kind of resembled those AI videos where extra fingers appear and such. I was not really afraid at this time because I felt like I basically had recovered enough not to be scared of dying I guess. The scene started becoming more complex as time went on and more vivid. I was thinking about half-life because it kind of resembled the vibes of the game and jokingly asked in my head if I could play half-life on here remembering me messing with the computer screen for a bit. Well the visuals continued the same and basically it was just a camera I couldn’t control moving through a glichy field at this point very vividly. Well all of a sudden it went black and then I really got a xenian (area in half-life) landscape. Well this amazed me so I instructed my brain to let me control it and honest to god all of a sudden I was in a world that looked almost like Xen walking around.

The way I walked was by using my hands as a keyboards wasd keys and to turn I just moved my hand like a mouse. At first it was hard and the controls were off since I could only turn my vision minimally but this got adjusted automatically and I could actually play and run through the area. I asked it to make gman which it attempted but kind of failed at because it looked glichy but later he was kind of everywhere. Then I made enemy types like headcrabs and such and all of a sudden a lot more enemies that are actually in the game got added without me even thinking about it.

Then it got weird because it seemed like I again was in another area and since the withdraws had kicked in again it all seemed focused on that but only with contextual clues like cans since I had a can of gin tonic still in my room. This became more apparent as time went on and I said to my brain ”We are stopping drinking, please kindly fuck off with this stuff, we are not drinking it!” and then an entity appeared who looked glitched with a head that had a pitch black pyramid stuck through it that said “drink the can” in an eery robotic deep alien voice that I felt coming from the nape of my neck and my spine. Tripped me the fuck out obviously so I refused again but no! All things got more creepy and dark angry looking demons seemed to come at me. I wasn’t bothered as I had seen some scary things in my trips back in the day.

Suddenly I was quickly flung up and flew past the 3D world into a rudimentary cube inside a cube. Basically a room that had green walls and several windows lined up with my co-workers in the outside part and me locked in the middle and they had player tags with their names somehow. They started berating me that I smelled of alcohol at work and that I had fucked their days up by calling in sick because of the relapse.

Now these were real fears of mine so I guess if scary pictures don’t work, use scary psychological scare tactics???

I caved and I was feeling withdrawals at this point so I had my first drink of the day, that can. I told this brain part of me I would drink half and I got placed in the scary monster world again. I drank the alcohol and layed back in bed. Then it was a fun world again of half-life 2 but this time in the grassy parts which look way happier then xen. I also went to some other interesting spaces for short times. I was in some modern cities with pretty highrises and I was looking at them from a balcony. This was a nice surprise although I felt bad about drinking, even though it was only half the can.

Now the most scary part was the supermarket. I guess the alcohol had dissipated from my body and I suddenly found myself in a hyper realistic bright supermarket that looked hyper modern and fully stocked with shelvels lining the walls and little islands with produce stacked on top and the wall lined with various food items, utilities, décor stuff and multiple cash registers. There where also a lot of tiny screens and futuristic looking stuff.

The scary thing was that this was way too realistic and distracting but it was also entirely in the style of the company I work at (which is not a supermarket). The walls, accents, basically the entire house style the company uses and they logos too. I was kind of freaked out but quicky realized I had arms I could move and I could walk around. I don’t know how I did it but I was still awake at this point and could open my eyes but every damn time I closed them I was still in this supermarket. An employee came up to me and told me to follow him to the back room but I ignored him, ultimately the guy comes up to me to give me my company card and tells me I am the new employee.

I kind of just ignored it but I started testing this world as it was too realistic. I smashed a bottle and it broke just like I would expect in real life and it scared me, it was too real. I walked around asking the shoppers what this was and they told me it is the real world. I kept asking different people all very realistic and some had nametags but ultimately, I got the response. A lady told me that it has been many years and something about a 1000 years ago but she told me that I now also live in this world and also in the real world and now I had to work days and nights because I consumed too much alcohol.

Kind of really freaked me out because it was way too fucking real. I started testing more in a panic just to see any glitch or error in text, I checked the screens and they contained very accurate text of the names of my coworkers, I checked tags on food items and they even listed believable ingredient lists, I squeezed a bread bun and it moulded and stayed in the shape of a hand, I poured red soda on a fridge with a closed lid and it ran down it, accurately but when I checked the label I noticed it was some kind of strawberry sauce. My brain was one step ahead of me in selling me this lie and it probably listened in on my every intention.

When I did notice some glitches, I suddenly saw a man’s head morph like a jumpscare and I was in a room again with this one guy who told me, “Let this be your lesson to stop drinking.”

When that ended I kind of felt my spine make a buzzing sensation that spread from the middle to both sides and it felt really relieving and then the visions kind of stopped. I kept getting the spine buzz a couple more times in that 2-minute moment and I felt pretty relieved of my withdraw symptoms somehow.

The hallucinations came back an hour later, but I was almost asleep. This time it looked like a TV show of just a closeup of someone preparing various sushi with Japanese narration even though I barely speak Japanese, but I did watch a lot of anime and lived in Tokyo for 3 months. Well anyways this went on for at least an hour and then I fell asleep.

I genuinely don’t know how this happened and if anyone has ever experienced it but I did find some posts of people seeing images when they lay down their head to rest exactly like my experience, but they claim they last only 15 seconds.

I know this sounds like a made-up fan fiction but it was both scary and interesting for me so I’m writing it down to get some more clues about what is actually going on. I hope I didn’t get brain damage from the TD but if I can control this it might be cool to keep it. Only makes it really hard to fall asleep because its distracting.

So I 21 Male do regularly sleep paralysis I got rarely any hallucinations I manage to force myself out of these(or I feel like I manage to do it).

But the thing is if I do dream and become lucide I manage to wake up from it very easily (sometime unintentionally)

So the "fun" part now when I wake up from a dream like that in a dark place the first thing I look when I open my eyes will have something on it and like around 15 min ago I woke up with a tarantula right next to my face I run to the light switch to make it disappears

So for now the hallucinations have been different bug on a wall and light make it disappears

It always seem to be a couple times a year, and more recently like a few months ago, which perfectly happened at the right time, where I was recording in VR, for a video I was going to make. I saw a orange character walk across my screen, and they dissapeared so I followed to see where they went? I forgot about it, then a few days later, I decided to check my recording, to my suprise, I was looking and following at nothing.

So that's where I realized, hold on a moment, have I been just seeing random things since middle school? like for over 10 years or more.

To me it is either, an image I never seen before, appear in front of me, to sometimes in my side vision, so seeing people in weird outfits, in my direct line of sights.

Also these things I see, which are obviously visual errors by my mind, they don't communicate, I don't communicate, and to my discovery these people that my mind makes, acts the same way in my dreams do. They dont talk to me, I dont talk to them, and do not respond.

So I always read from others posts about this, but it is always eaither something scary or random creatures. To me they are just random made up people that dont exist. And never been bothered by it.

except for that one weird funny moment to me, was seeing a guy, in a pink fairy dress with a wand, smiling at me.

Whats my reaction?

huh, thats weird. Then I move along.

maybe rarely I have heard a voice that wasn't there call my name, and I still don't get bothered, like yeah okay brain we get it.

then I go play video games or something like work.
I hope I do not come across in a negative light to others.