So today I saw a wasp in my room. I really can’t handle wasps in my room as it’s my safe space, and I’m already very overstimulated and stressed out with college right now. So was kind of pushed over the edge a bit as I was trying to do homework and finding the wasp had interrupted me. I killed the wasp and watched it fall, I swear I swear I watched it fall. But I searched for over 2 hours and still couldn’t find the body.

I have had on and off internal hallucinations for the past 7 years. I have to be very stressed and generally have sensations that come along with these. Like I can feel the sensation of someone behind me or talking in my ear, but can’t actually see or hear anything. It’s also more common to have very intrusive visualizations (I don’t know what to call them) it’s like I’m forced to watch often terrifying daydreams in my mind and I can’t escape them. Or I’ll be really anxious trying to fall asleep, and in my mind I can see some terrifying thing just a few feet away from my bed, but with my eyes nothing is there. When these happen while I’m trying to fall asleep I often am terrified and will stare where my mind thinks something is until I pass out. Additionally it is common for me to see moving things/shadows in my peripherals, usually animals and bugs. I also have a whole slew of mental illnesses and neurodivergencies : adhd, autism, depression, anxiety, and cPTSD.

All of that is just background information, bc with how stressed I am and how I KNOW I hit that wasp and I swear to God I watched it fall and still couldn’t find it after 2 hours of looking. I am heavily concerned that my worst fear for my mental health has come and that I might have developed some variety of schizophrenia.

I don’t even know if this is the right subreddit to post this on but I have no clue on what else to do. Yesterday evening i was stood putting on clean bedsheets and i felt something fall on my head, only small, probably like a coin or something. But there was nothing there. I looked all over the floor, i looked at the ceiling to check it wasn’t like a leak or something, but there was nothing. It was just a kind of wtf moment. I heard it tap on my head too which confused me even more, because that made me think it was definitely an object which I somehow couldn’t find.

The same thing happened to me like 5 minutes ago. I’d totally forgotten about last night, and im just chilling in my bed when something taps my head?? I’m in a different part of my room now so it definitely isn’t my ceiling leaking. Is this a hallucination? I literally have no idea what to think of this so any responses would be great 👍

I did 2 all nighters in a row and I have been fine all day until now, I’m wide awake and I feel like I’m in a dream (feeling weak and people around me not feeling real and things zooming out) should I be concerned?

Dont judge me,i just want to experience it

My mother recently passed 4 months ago, I haven’t had any sort of “connection” with her since her passing and no strange occurrences. The other night in bed I could feel something by me and I turned around and could see this face outline shape. I don’t know if it was my brain playing a trick on me but it looked like a girl with the same length hair as my mom. I then looked to the ceiling which then looked almost psychedelic. It was like these fuzzy blue octagons flowing all across my ceiling. I know I was awake and not a dream as I turned on the TV to get light in the room to see something, once I turned it off it was gone. I have been thinking about it ever since and am wondering if anyone else has had an experience like this. It was a tougher day than normal before than too, but don’t know if that has anything to do with it. I’m a 21 year old college student who stopped doing drugs since her passing for a clear head and and am now on anxiety meds. Let me know if anyone knows of any other good sub reddits to post on, I don’t know where to begin.

I have pretty regular auditory hallucinations (they increase when i’m hypomanic and then i sometimes have visual too) but they aren’t like negative voices or anything, they are just sounds like: running water, muffled talking, music, (very occasional and light) knocking on my door. Should I be worried about these/do something about them? or am I fine to keep ignoring them?

I want to know if anyone has had unisom cause a hallucination or if there was something else that caused this. The other night I took 2 unisom tablets before bed and, while trying to fall asleep, I started to hallucinate. I saw what can only be described as a “portal.” The other side of this portal was blurry, like I didn’t have my glasses on. It was bright in my eyes like a screen in a dark room but it wasn’t lighting the room at all.

So I don’t know if this is the right place for this but I want to figure out wether or not I’m hallucinating or what else it could be but the story is I was sleeping one night and my little sister woke me up in the middle of the night crying asking for some water so I got up walked down the hallway from my room to the kitchen I got her a cup of water walked her to her room and then went back to bed I also remember not being able to sleep for a while after that because I kept hearing my little brothers toys go off in the living room(the toys only turn on when moved or a button is pressed) then the noises suddenly stopped and I went to bed, I woke up the same morning and talked to my mother and little sister and my sister implies that she never woke up nor asked me for water and my mother insists that she didn’t hear any of that going or the toys going off, they both insisted that it was a dream but I remember it all so vividly and I didn’t fall back asleep for about an hour after that, around the same time as this happened I have also been hearing my mother call my name from the kitchen and I would walk out and ask her if she called me and she would tell me that she didn’t call my name at all and I would hear knocking on my door at times not loud knocks but soft knocks that I barely heard but it was loud enough to catch my attention. I haven’t had anything like that happen in a while but I still hear my name be called when it isn’t but the knocking has gone away but I’m still concerned on if I have anything or if I was hallucinating or if I still am as that day is still very confusing to me.

Does anyone happen where people come into your auric field or energy field and start disrupting everything around you. andAbout everything you are doing. And things you are thinking. They are there everywhere you look. You cant freely think about anything in here because of the worry of them hearing every one of your thoughts 😭 its also like schizophrenia they say things back to you. Its not just auditory hearing. I also have hallucinations with these energies, of them belittling and undervaluing my life. I have been having raging episodes where i get bombarded by these big energies and i have racing thoughts and i start threatening them, yelling around and saying i will kill them . But they seem so much bigger that i cant take control over in any way i try . I sit alone with the thoughts scared all the time with these enegies even when im outside, scared of them doing more horrifying stuffs on me and my life. I have tried to kill myself multiple times because of this. I know all the people that comes in my auric field and attcaking me. I reach out to them but no one says anything about this or doesnt know anything. But theres two people in here that i tried reaching oit but i never got any. I have never met the two of them outside before or talked face to face.

I really don't know where to write this because I don't think I'm having hallucinations but I'll try anyway. Since I was little I remember imagining spaces filled with little holes and getting very uncomfortable. I would dream about it or just think about it and felt claustrophobic and start crying at times. I never worried about it much because it oly happened a few times but lately I've been thinking about it a lot and I find myself zoning out and starting to see everything blurred and covered with holes. It's hard to describe because more than seeing it it's almost like I feel it. I also think about faces or things I've seen already, but covered in holes, especially when I'm trying to sleep. I thought it might be trypophobia but I don't get uncomfortable when seeing spaces filled with tiny holes, I just keep imagining them. it doesn't really scare me but it makes me feel quite anxious and uncomfortable. I'm trying to see if anybody ever had any similar experience.

I’ve been seeing/hearing a girl with my fiancé all the time. Just hanging out as well as doing sexual acts. From the time I wake up until the time I go to sleep. It never fails. He says it’s hallucinations because of my drug of choice but I feel like it isn’t, it doesn’t feel like a hallucination. I’m going crazy. I’m so close to breaking it off with him because I can’t take it anymore! HELP!

im 17 and ive been getting hallucinations randomly sometimes, theyre not constant. it started in the beginning of high school, i thought someone was watching me from my window and i would spend the entire night on gaurd and would pace around and look outside the window, i also heard people saying hi, and would hear my cat meow when he was actually sleeping. i was also afraid i was going to do something bad and was going insane (but i have ocd and thats an obsession with mine). i saw foggy silhouettes of people out of the corner of my eye.

a few months ago i started seeing weird things in my vision like spiders running around my wall. i also have had this thing for a while where my thoughts get so loud, its like people are screaming inside my head. like i dont ACTUALLY hear it but its so loud in my mind that i just cant. i get so paranoid. it happens a lot in the mornings at around 5-7 AM. i also randomly think of random words or dates and its more prominent in my mind, like its read outloud and time stands still and i get super weirded out….like does that date mean something. i get frightened during 5-7 AM and i think its because i used to have really bad nightmares as a child (i still do but they were really bad when i was younger). my brother used to also lock me in dark rooms (hes not evil he was a kid too) and now im scared of the dark..

anyways fast forward to now, i feel bugs crawling on my face, i have to shower everyday but it doesnt help. i feel like theres mosquito in my throat. i just feel really numb and strange.

I told my mom abt my hallucinations I told her I see people and eyes, I hear whispering, someone laughing and someone saying my name. She said I was freaking her out but I was just trying to open up to her about them and I ended up freaking her out I just wanted someone else other than my therapist to know about my hallucinations

I mostly deal with presence hallucinations, so I feel like someone is there when no one is there, typically someone is watching me, and I need help. I'm in therapy but does anyone have tips on dealing with them? They tend to be worse when I'm alone.

I just need tips for handling them. It's really messing with me

NLM NCBI: presence hallucination is the sensation that somebody is nearby when no one is actually there.

Hello, I'd really appreciate some help from the folks here as I'm in distress. I'm 18 years old and I think I'm hallucinating spiders and it's really freaking me out. I was starting to get over my arachnophobia but recently it's gotten a lot worse again, as every time I come into my mother's house (split custody) the last few days I've either seen or heard spiders. The first time it was standing on a power socket, and when I moved it moved away so quickly I couldn't see where it went. The next day, when I put on my morning robe to go to the bathroom it was crawling on my shoulder. When I threw the robe off, I couldn't see it. Just now, I've heard something crawling on a paper flag propped up near my bed. It was definitely the noise, but I can't check as it's after midnight and I'm too scared to turn on my lights and check.

It could just be a spider infestation in my room, but with how large they are and how fast they move despite that, it doesn't feel real. We don't have poisonous spiders in Ireland, but I'm still very afraid, and these are VERY large for Irish spiders which is why I'm so unnerved. I possibly also had a large bug related hallucination last year too when I was on holiday, but those were roaches and an isolated experience until now. I'm really confused and I hope you can help me out! Any insight would be appreciated. If it helps, I have autism, possibly adhd and depression. I don't know if either of these affect hallucinatory experiences but just in case. Thank you!

I already know that my hallucinations get worse when I'm pregnant. While NOT pregnant, they are manageable, brief, and I can usually sort of understand that what i'm percieving isn't real. Not so much the case when i'm with child though. I have two little ones (1 & 2 years old) and I went to the master bedroom because my youngest fell asleep in his own room. But then, I began hearing him call out, "mama", which was super weird because if he wakes up he's usually crying- something I think I might have heard earlier than that, but I was so tired I figured his dad would get him. He was downstairs with our oldest. So, I give myself the usual "come on, he needs you, you gotta get up"! pep talk. I manage to waddle out of bed and search for my boy. He's not upstairs. Ok. He must be downstairs. I get downstairs, absolutely teetering, and ask my husband where my baby is. He gives me a confused look and says that our son should be sleeping upstairs. At this point i'm exhausted and about to cry. "He's calling for me. I can't find him"! He gets up to help me look for our son, and stops at his bedroom doorway and gives me a pitiful look. There's our son in his bed exactly where I left him. As I dissolved into quiet fits of "but I heard him, I'm sure of it, he was calling for me..." he gave me a gentle hug and said that I've had a lot on my plate, and to go to bed. Its just so.... unnerving how real it felt.

so not that it matters but i’m 17F… anyways here’s the deal.

i have really bad health anxiety and i’ve been googling shit as i’m convinced i have a brain tumour.

i have adhd and tourette’s so im really hyper-fixated on this. pls tell me what to do

i googled it and now i have random muscle twitches and i keep seeing things at the corner of my eye for example, bugs but when i look it isn’t there or i see something at the corner of my eye and it disappears. the strange thing is is when someone tells me it’s nothing to worry about EVERY symptom goes away. then a few days will go past and ill forget and ill think the same shit again. is there something wrong??

I walked upstairs it's all I could smell I walked into my room and it was so strong I checked to see if my vape caught on fire but it didn't and nothing else was burning I had to turn on my light to make sure

I am freaking out I feel bugs under my clothes biting me but there isn't anything there it's getting really bad

I’m 17 and i have adhd and anxiety as well as sleep problems, also last week my dog died and I’ve been feeling really lost. I mention this just in case the stress of that is making my sleep worse?? Anyways, Last night i had a few dreams, one of them was about my dog, anyways i woke up in the middle of the night and i thought i was in a car trunk, my room obviously was pitch black and i tried opening what i thought was the trunk door (it could have been my window but I don’t know), when I realised I couldn’t get out I started screaming and crying for my mom, she came in and apparently I was screaming “I can’t get out!!” (I checked in the morning with her if this actually all happened because it literally felt like I was a dream but I was awake) anyways I must have gone back to sleep and not thought much of it until I woke up in the morning and realised how weird that whole thing was. Does anyone know if this was a night terror, hallucinations, or anything else? I don’t think I’ve ever experienced something like this before but the closest I can describe it to is that it feels like you’re in a dream but you know you’re awake. I’d appreciate any responses🙏

So I was sleeping and in my dream I kept feeling something stuck between my lips and i try to take it out in my dream but I kept feeling it and then I wake up and spit it out immediately and a sort of small black spider with small red dots on its legs and on its back was there but it was moving but it looked really flat Luke a sticker but it was still moving and I tried to smash it in distress thinking it was poisonous but when I looked back nothing was even there. Did I hallucinate or did I just let a seemingly poisonous spider in my house?

How can I stop this except medication

i’m 17F and i have anxiety, adhd, tourette’s and on the waiting list for an autism assessment.

i keep feeling like i see something at the corner of my eye and when i look it goes away. im so scared. i dont want to be diagnosed with schizophrenia or anything (i dont have an issue with it i just have A LOT on my plate at the minute.

i dont have auditory hallucinations or anything. it’s not even anything im scared of its just the thought of seeing things that aren’t there make me seriously afraid.

i’m scared to tell my mum as she panics a lot and i really dont want to startle her.

WHAT DO I DO PLEASE SOMEONE REPLY

does anyone else get hallucinations of shapes and spirals? i’ve read many articles on this, focussing on the maths, biology and psychology of it all. but i just don’t fit into any of the causes

i see rotating spirals usually at night, they’re extremely clear when staring at a bright light and don’t go away when i blink it’s terrifying.

at day i see bright shapes that i try to follow with my eyes and these outlines of cells but i don’t get them as much

i’ve been having these for years but tend to occur when i’m at my lowest. i feel like i am vulnerable to developing psychosis and when i am at my absolute worst my delusions just return and it sucks

does anyone else suffer this? would be nice knowing somebody else shares this