Visual Hallucinations

[GoryBlizzard]

This thread is being re-posted since it somehow ended up being the 1,000,000th thread on the BBS, not that I have a problem with it since it was probably the biggest achievement I've had on here.

Although I have experienced some weird visual hallucinations for as long as I've been around, more recently my episodes have gotten a lot more frequent, bizarre, and probably very serious.

Here are some examples of what I've been seeing lately: at around 6 last night, I thought I saw a flashing komodo dragon in my room. I was so convinced it was there that I told everyone in my apartment to watch out for it, and they told me I was imagining things. Later that night, I thought I saw a dog with a large wolf-like stature chasing me in my neighborhood without a leash. I ran, then later turned around again and saw nothing. No one else was with me at the time. Now, today, I've had three separate hallucinatory episodes. Once in the morning, I thought I saw a clown just lounging around near my trash bin. A couple of hours ago, I swear I saw my hands turn purple for a short time. Not much longer after that, I saw what appeared to be piranhas raining from my ceiling.

I cannot emphasize this enough...this is really. Fucking. Annoying. Many of you are probably shitheads who think this is all funny, but if you've ever had to go through this (and I know, almost no one here has, which makes my predicament that much harder), you should know what I mean.

I am not on LSD or anything else for that matter, but I was diagnosed with schizophrenia earlier this year after exhibiting a host of symptoms both positive and negative (hearing voices, abnormal thought process, low energy, isolation, etc.). So while I'm sure that undoubtedly has a lot to do what I'm experiencing, I need to figure out how to deal with my hallucinations without overpriced prescription medication like Risperdal, Seroquel or Zyprexa. I was urged to take it shortly upon diagnosis, but didn't have the money and the side effects would have been even shittier to deal with than the illness itself.

Any easy way I can deal my hallucinations besides going to a psychiatrist? If I see any medical professional for this, even if it's for a short consultation, it's going to cost me almost all the money I have, and I don't have a lot left. God damn it, fuck this.

[I-RULE-OVER-ALL]

you really should see a doctor if it saves your sanity it's worth every penny.

[linkinparkpie43]

get medical help or you will end up hurting someone or your self my friends brother was sent to an aslyum for hallucinating and hurting an innocent man

[TJoyal]

Now I'm not trying to be funny but honestly, have you ever done drugs? You could of suffered a severe side effect from medication you might take. I only had one hallucination.

I got up in history class and asked to go to the bathroom. My friend John got to the teacher before me, she signed the pass and he left. I asked to go to the bathroom and she signed my pass. We were both asking to go to the bathroom. I didn't see John leave, nor did I see him in the hallway. I went to the bathroom and their were upperclassmen fooling around. John left the stall. I went, washed my hands and left BEFORE John. I went to class and he was sitting at his seat.

"Oh Tyler, you can go before me" he said

I saw him washing his hands right next to me in the bathroom. It was so freaky yet very unbelievable at the same time.

[DaWgSOLja729]

Dude, that is some of the coolest shit ever.

[GoryBlizzard]

At 11/29/08 11:33 PM, TJoyal wrote: Now I'm not trying to be funny but honestly, have you ever done drugs? You could of suffered a severe side effect from medication you might take. I only had one hallucination.

I've never used drugs for recreational purposes.

I used to be on Lexapro and Prozac as both were prescribed to me, but managed to wean myself off them a while ago.

[robattle]

I got pictures of you posting the 1,000,000th thread for proof.

Dang that was crazy I even tried doing it.

Well I never got hallucinations unless you could say daydreaming is a hallucination.

[Altered]

I remember faintly when i was little, i used to sleep with the covers over my head, so i would sweat. And i remember waking up a few times with like visual things running in front of me, kind of like holograms. I was really scared then they just stopped happening, i believe they were from the heat.

[GoryBlizzard]

At 11/29/08 11:47 PM, robattle wrote: I got pictures of you posting the 1,000,000th thread for proof.

I didn't do any screenshots after I posted it. I admit I'm still flustered over its deletion. It really shouldn't have been deleted, but I guess it was destined to be spammed to hell.

Well I never got hallucinations unless you could say daydreaming is a hallucination.

No, it's not.

[psycho-squirrel]

Try to train yourself to know that anything out of the ordinary isn't real, no matter how real it looks.

The hard thing is, what ever the brain can see, it sees as real. You need to get your rational thought working, which often isn't working when seeing something strange till after first seeing it.

You should see a doctor about it.

[MemoryCard]

I have little "hallucinations" ( I guess you could call them that) in which the world is all trippy and my vision magnifies and zooms up close and the walls are pulsating.

So you got me kind of scared that I might see a giant lizard moonwalking and sining reggae.

[Rarehunter813]

At 11/29/08 11:45 PM, GoryBlizzard wrote:

At 11/29/08 11:33 PM, TJoyal wrote: Now I'm not trying to be funny but honestly, have you ever done drugs? You could of suffered a severe side effect from medication you might take. I only had one hallucination.

I've never used drugs for recreational purposes.

I used to be on Lexapro and Prozac as both were prescribed to me, but managed to wean myself off them a while ago.

i took prozack for 2 days after diagnosed with medical depression, and almost killed myself. DONT TAKE IT!
sall good now though. but if i go 12 hours without a clonapin, (i start hearing the voices again)

[FrozenSheep]

The most I get with visual llucinations is waves of colors and flashing lights maybe. Moving walls and pulsating, but not anything that is any danger to myself.

good luck with that,

[DaWgSOLja729]

At 11/29/08 11:28 PM, HerpesHank wrote: Mort Rainey, you stole my story.

fucking epic

[Aliensandwich]

I remember you!
Yeah, you were talking about how you kept hearing non-existent people talking!
Damn dude, it seems like you have it pretty bad.

[eyeothestorm]

To be honest, that sounds absolutely awesome. Seeing dragons and shit but not actually having to deal with it. Need to find a LSD dealer asap.

[ClickToPlay]

Jesus man, that must be horrible.

But I do suppose it's sometimes entertaining, to a certain extent, at least.

[cowloverdude]

I really don't know. I'm sure there are websites that adress these different kinds of hallucinations and where they come from. You know, like those websites that you see in commercials that come with medecines. They usually have forums and stuff. You could start conversations on what you are experiencing.

[EvilerBowser1001]

Oh boy. You're just the right age for lots of mental illnesses to start occurring.
Try to train yourself to try to discredit what you see as usual, and try not to think about them too much.

If this doesn't work, or it gets worse, go see a shrink of some kind.

[Aliensandwich]

You honestly need help dude.

I'm serious. You need to try to purchase those meds. If you are honestly seeing clowns sitting around, and piranhas raining from the ceiling, you need to seriously try to get as much help as possible.

This is a serious issue that must be taken care of, for the safety of you and potentially others.

[eyeothestorm]

Don't listen to them. You don't help, you need to write a movie starring Keanu Reeves. He'll sit in a room and have epic adventures without even getting out off his chair.