The Hallucinations Thread!

These happen somewhat often, but I have a few that really stand out to me. The night before last I woke up saying "a dog and a car are not the same thing" twice. I don't think this was related to my dream in any way, I just tend to say nonsensical things while I'm sleeping. The second time I woke up saying this I saw two dark heads on top of my dresser, one talking to the other, for about a minute until I realized it was really just a crumpled up grocery bag and a shirt, or some other article of clothing.

About a month or so ago I was on some bleachers watching these two kids freestyling, and someone next to me offered me popcorn. As I reached in I saw a small bright light shining through and I grabbed it, it was a phone. I leaned toward it and I was rolled over awake on my bed, holding my phone, with an appetite for popcorn.

Sometime, when I was younger, maybe in middle school, I saw a silhouetted figure with a knife held above my chest in my room. I was frozen and starred for about 30 seconds or so and it started to dissipate.

I broke my back in 2010 and was laid up in the hospital for a little while. I haden't had a cigarette for a few days and was dreaming I was about to bum one from a friend. I had my fingers to my lips, like someone smoking, and looked at my dad who I thought was the friend, and mumbled something about bumming a smoke. He didn't understand and asked "what?" as I suddenly realized I was asking my dad (who didn't know I smoked) for a cigarette.

There are many more but these are what came to mind. Maybe I'll post some more later on.

I had the most terrifying SP experience of my enter life when I was just starting out practicing LD. I was new the forum so I had lucid dreaming on my min a lot. I had already done a few WILDs before but had never been stuck in SP for more than a minute. I was going through a long lasting insomnia of about 3 days. I hadn't had more that an hour of sleep the entire time. So my brain was very tired. I finally started to fall asleep. But I soon realized it was only my body falling asleep and my mind was wide awake. But then I started feeling the sensation of someone watching me. So I turned around (now fully awake) and I saw this tall silhouette. It was like a 7ft tall shadow of a man. And my lamp was on the whole time so it would be impossible for there to be a shadow like that. It wasn't even a shadow, it was a solid black person. And I reality checked, I was awake. I reality checked multiple times, biting my tongue, plugging my nose, pinching, looking at my clock. I started talking to the shadow, hoping it was my brother playing a joke on me. But it vanished in the blink of an eye.

I havent really had much hallucinations when falling asleep except for hearing my name whispered in my ear and that only happens every so often, but when i was younger i would wake up and feel something latch onto the back of my ankle every morning. :P

I remember when I a little younger and had sleep paralysis. Pretty sure I only had 3 different occasions, all relatively the same outcome.

I was waking up on a Saturday afternoon and I couldn't move, breathe or even move my eyes, I felt cold, helpless and afraid. Then a large figure appeared in black smoke (about 6"3) he had dark pulsating blue eyes (more creepy then enchanting) come over to me and whisper something in another language and press down on my chest then disappear. Still creeps me out till this day...
Think I was about 14 when it happened.

Once I was having a fever when I was a small child.

I started seeing that my bed was out in the forest, saw my grandpa run towards me.. And from everwhere there was coming Aliens (a la James Cameron style 1986 ) from the woods.

I started screaming like crazy, mom rushed up the stairs and tried to calm me down.

It was pretty fucked up..

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Originally Posted by LaoTze

Once I was having a fever when I was a small child.

I started seeing that my bed was out in the forest, saw my grandpa run towards me.. And from everwhere there was coming Aliens (a la James Cameron style 1986 ) from the woods.

I started screaming like crazy, mom rushed up the stairs and tried to calm me down.

It was pretty fucked up..

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Cool. When I was younger and had a fever, when I wake up, I'd tend to hallucinate dancing geometric shapes right in front of me. Idk why but they were always geometric shapes, usually triangles dancing and wiggling. x)

When i woke up from one of my naps and looked at the electronic clock that i have in my room, for a few seconds it looked like three classic clocks stacked together. :lol:

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Originally Posted by Pakman43

I had the most terrifying SP experience of my enter life when I was just starting out practicing LD. I was new the forum so I had lucid dreaming on my min a lot. I had already done a few WILDs before but had never been stuck in SP for more than a minute. I was going through a long lasting insomnia of about 3 days. I hadn't had more that an hour of sleep the entire time. So my brain was very tired. I finally started to fall asleep. But I soon realized it was only my body falling asleep and my mind was wide awake. But then I started feeling the sensation of someone watching me. So I turned around (now fully awake) and I saw this tall silhouette. It was like a 7ft tall shadow of a man. And my lamp was on the whole time so it would be impossible for there to be a shadow like that. It wasn't even a shadow, it was a solid black person. And I reality checked, I was awake. I reality checked multiple times, biting my tongue, plugging my nose, pinching, looking at my clock. I started talking to the shadow, hoping it was my brother playing a joke on me. But it vanished in the blink of an eye.

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Doesn't sounds like SP, in SP one can't move completely no matter how hard he's trying, http://www.dreamviews.com/wake-initi...mystified.html :-?

i hallucinated gnats :/

It happened when I moved to a new apartment. Now and then, just as I woke inbetween dreams, I'd see a swarm of gnats above my head. It would always startle me and I'd try to swat at them. Sometimes they just disappear. Other times they fly away. Sometimes they are perched on the wall, another time they were all over my night stand. Sometimes they were just black fuzzy dots. Other times they were realistic and I thought I had a bug problem (but there was never anything in the day).

It really creeped me out, I didn't understand why suddenly I was hallucinating gnats - still don't. I've moved out of that apartment and it hasn't happened since.

Hmm, some pretty interesting replies. I wonder why the brain decides to churn out all of this bizarro stuff when it would usually be unconscious and unaware anyways..? Things that make you go hmm...

Personally, when I experience hypnagogic hallucinations its almost always in the form of audio and sometimes tactile, or a combination of the two. Just the regular stuff; hearing my name called, loud banging or buzzing, whispers, the feeling of being spaghettified or moving at high speeds, etc. I always wanted to see the pretty colors like I'm tripping on mushrooms, but I never get that lol.

I had one lately which I can clearly remember. We had the class's last big party where everyone was there and we got drunk. After that three of us decided to go to a friend's house and sleep there (he was with us). About 1-1.5 hours later we got there by walking. Til that time I smoked like 3-4 cigarets (they did more), and I'm a non smoker, maybe this had something to do with it? Also my pulse is always low. As we arrived we started listening to music. The two browsed and played them, I sat down as I was already tired.
After about the third-fourth music, as soon as it ended I started seeing things very fast, also heared weird things. Can't describe it more, I didn't see anything continuous. It lasted about 10 minutes, or 5 at least, yet when it ended they didn't even start a new song. I asked them if by the time they played any other, but they said no.
So within a second I spent about 5-10 mins... somewhere. Pretty weird, never experienced anything like this before.

Back. Been paying more attention to these auditory hallucinations lately. As previously posted, i almost always hear people talking and having different conversations, when failing a sleep. Before i could almost never recall what was being said, even as it is being said; like when your reading a book and people around you are talking but your not comprehending what they are saying.

Well lately i've been paying abit more attention, and want to relate an experience i had this week.

it was my lunch hour i decided to relax in the college library. I closed my eyes and after some time i reached that state near sleep, but didn't let myself fall asleep due to the time limit.
quite suddenly in my mind it felt as if a space had opened, like someone had drawn across one of those curtains which acts as doors. And immediately i heard a female say "OHH a library!", there was also a male presence and he didn't speak, instead he did an action which was like a cube unfolding to become flat. I felt this was a method of sensing the surroundings, strange as it was.

As i was still conscious, i said "have fun" in my mind; mostly in reply to the females enthusiasm for being in a library. Unfortunately it felt like that action of mine was to forceful and snapped me out of being close enough to sleep to hear any more. It reminds me of when im really falling asleep at night and hear these voices as background noise, and suddenly realize im hearing voices and it stops until i've become passive and unattentive again.

after waking up and having a bad dream, i saw a face with no skin and only one eye in front of my face, and that really made me scared. I thought that was real back then that's why i'm afraid of experiencing sleep paralysis until lately :)

I don't remember when, but it was in pitch black dark that i got them, after waking up, randomly in the dark, i saw that EXTREMLY huge spider making a web to reach my bed/the ground i quickly turned on the light, it dissapeared. Also that black dog, again in the dark, that was looking at me, i looked closer, he got a little bit farther and i said "Sup, bro !" and when i turned the lights on again, he dissapeared.

The other day I was pulling an all-nighter for a test and at around 4:30 am i decided to have a power nap. I closed my eyes and within a few minutes I started feeling tingling all over my body. I then heard a familiar song playing right in my ears softly, but very audible. I knew I was falling asleep and experiencing hallucinations so I tried to keep the song going by thinking of the lyrics. When I started forgetting the lyrics, the song slowly morphed into another song, but with fluctuating notes, as if someone is playing with the pitch controls. It sounded so eerie and haunting. I must've been too tired because I fell asleep a bit after that.

Last few days, when closing my eyes while watching TV, being very sleepy, I got a few very nice HH.

- view from a river on snow covered mountains rising just few feet from the shore (think Alaska or Norway)
- a beautiful weeping willow tree illuminated by afternoon golden sun

I want moar

Pulled another all-nighter for a test. Somehow I knew I was gonna have hallucinations/a lucid. And i did! I slept on my side and after about 20 minutes a scaly hand tugged and pulled at my arm. I couldn't see anything but I knew i was hallucinating the arm pulling. It felt very vivid to the point where my arm started to hurt the more it pulled on my arm, as if the scales were scratching my skin. Fell asleep shortly thereafter, had a lucid. The end.

I don't know if they were tactile hallucinations, although I guess they were: A couple of days ago, I felt while falling asleep my hand was moving on its own, like turning on and off some sort of invisible switch, when I noticed it, everything stopped. It's strange cause I didn't have any control over its motion, like someone was moving it with some sort of remote control or something like that.

When I was younger I used to see lots of different things in my bedroom

The first one was a bunch of fish swimming everywhere, one of them had a dollar sign on it and it disappeared and went KA CHING!

Next I saw the hamburger helper glove crawling on my bed. I tried to scoop him up with my hand which worked, I didn't feel anything he just was on my hand. He looked like he had been hopping for hours and he was very tired.

Then I saw spoons and forks hopping around near my door. Then they hopped out the door. I followed them and no lie I saw them hopping up to the bathroom door and sliding under it. There was a plate too who was stuck halfway under the door. I tried following into the bathroom but I didn't see anything

When the light level was just right I saw multiple times small people walking over me. I picked some guy up once and he dangled from my hand in fear and I laughed pretty hard.



I said hop a lot in that post

Is it just me or is the possibility of hallucinations increased if napping in an uncomfortable position? Like, sitting on a bench, leaning the head on one knee (with a hand in between so the hard bone doesn't hurt your head). This napping position has yielded several times pseudo-sleep paralysis (feels like SP, but can still move), auditory hallucinations, and some visual ones.

Bowser opened my door and roared at me when I was a small child.

I was sad for the next few days.

Also, I used to occasionally hear people laughing in my room. Now that I think about it, there was a pretty good reason I used to be afraid of the dark.

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Originally Posted by blubbdavid

Is it just me or is the possibility of hallucinations increased if napping in an uncomfortable position? Like, sitting on a bench, leaning the head on one knee (with a hand in between so the hard bone doesn't hurt your head). This napping position has yielded several times pseudo-sleep paralysis (feels like SP, but can still move), auditory hallucinations, and some visual ones.

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I'm inclined to agree. I often get the really scary ones too, if I'm in a not-so good position.

I've heard a voice whispering in my ear. Couldn't understand what was being said, but I could feel the person's breath.

When I was a kid, I woke up and it felt like there was someone sitting on my bed. Then, I felt the person getting up and walking to my parents' bedroom... it was really creepy. :eek:

Not sure if this counts, but I've felt my whole body vibrating while I saw weird shadows in my bedroom... this was after a dream where I was in my room and I was shouting "GOD, IF GHOSTS ARE REAL, LET ME SEE THEM!" so let's just say that I thought I was being possessed and that it was scary as hell.

Oh, I also used to wake up a lot to someone angrily shouting my name... would that also be considered a hallucination?

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Originally Posted by Angelpotter

Oh, I also used to wake up a lot to someone angrily shouting my name... would that also be considered a hallucination?

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Sure, that's probably a hallucination, assuming there wasn't actually anyone there x)

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Originally Posted by paigeyemps

Sure, that's probably a hallucination, assuming there wasn't actually anyone there x)

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Nope, never. :P