I have not personally done any hallucinogenic substances but some people I know have and these are some things they say they have seen;
One guy looked in the mirror and saw his head get up and crawl off of his shoulders and he was standing there with no head.
another guy was in a parking lot and he said all the cars were starting up and coming at him
and then a dude beat up his brother because his brother was a monster trying to eat him.
Then this kid was looking at a poster and the people on it were moving and singing and finally reached out and tried to knock over a glass on the table.
I have many more, but I wanted to know if any of you have ever hallucinated and what did you see?
Also I think illegal drugs are dangerous and should not be taken by anyone…but if you already have in the past what did you see?
Some hallucinations are possible with incredibly reckless abuse of hallucinogenic drugs but I’d almost bet everything I have that your friends are bullshitting. Most people say they hallucinate because that’s what they are expected to say. That’s what their friends said, and their friends said…etc.
I myself have done plenty of psychedelic drugs (acid and mushrooms) and I’ve never actually seen anything that wasn’t there. Once I looked at a guy and he looked pretty well like a cartoon but he was a funny looking guy anyway. Another time a friend and I were tossing gravel at each other and it felt really light and slightly bigger than it actually was, kind of like the ball-pit at a fast food restaurant playground. But that’s been the absolute extent of my “hallucinations.”
Most of my friends did a lot more acid than I did and none of them ever saw anything either.
I’m pretty well sure that anyone that actually thought they saw their head get up and walk off would, one way or another, wind up in the hospital. And it would take a lot more than a 10-strip to put them there.
I have hallucinated under sedation at the dentists [the conversations of the dentist and hygenist sounded like the funky woobly sounds in Baba O’REilly] and everything lookedlike a cartoon.
I have hallucinated from fatigue [the walls and floor were moving, like they were breathing]
I have hallucinated with a fever of 105F [people were coming to kill me, and I kept trying to pull out my IVs until they strapped me down, then I was convinced the nurses and doctors were in on the plot…then they sedated me]
I have hallucinated while driving late at night after about 20 hours of driving [swear I saw someone running beside the car at 60+ mph…I pulled over and took a nap]
1994, In the hospital, after major surgery, on morphine and demerol, Watching an Entertainment Tonight preview of Interview with a Vampire… Tom Cruise was crawling out of the TV coming to kill me. Really freaky - I told the nurse and he just gave me another injection and told me to go back to sleep.
Back in my younger days when I experimented with mood-altering substances, I did have hallucinations, but they were not what most people would call hallucinations. I didn’t see things that were not there, for example. But I had some major misperceptions, most of them involving time and space. Once, while driving under the influence (really, I am MUCH smarter now) I approached a red light and began to brake. It took me a while to realize that that particular red light was three blocks away. And another time, having seen one of those traffic signs with an arrow pointing up (for “ahead”) I tried to figure out how to turn UP, which rapidly disintegrated into a perception of the street itself suddenly becoming a vertical surface. The time thing was just weird. I’d look at the clock, and then look again in what I would have sworn was five minutes, only to realize that it was now hours later - or, I’d have the inverse: I’d look at the clock, then look again when I thought it was hours later, and discover that mere minutes had passed.
When I tried to quit smoking once, I went on the patch and had minor hallucinations - the sensation of bugs crawling on me, and that “the walls are breathing” sort of visual hallucination. The patch also seemed to give me some extraordinarily vivid nightmares. I thought these things might be more related to nicotine withdrawal, but my doctor said they weren’t uncommon side effects of the patch.
Only once. After I had my galbladder removed. I woke up moaning in pain and a nurse came over and stuck a needle full of Demerol in my backside. The pain instantly dissapeared and I felt an intense calm, which was accompanied by (what I thought was) a voice whispering in my ear, saying, “Just pick your nose, and everything will be all right.” Who was I to argue? I went digging for gold. I remember seeing a nurse walk by and she gave me an odd look. I just waved and gave her a dopey smile with my finger still knuckle-deep in my sinus. My mom reports that when they brought me back to my room I kept rubbing the back of one hand across my nose.
But you know what? Picking it did make me feel better.
I’ve hallucinated a few times from high fevers (which is almost every fever I get…I always run higher than normal, 104 is average for me, I was was 106.)
It is usually at night when I’m trying to sleep, and it’s almost always the same sort of thing. I’m also half-dreaming at the time, so it’s really a combo of the to, but it’s usually me imagiing there are people around. What the people are doing varies, sometimes they are talking about me, other times they are just there, not letting me sleep :mad:
I don’t see them unless I am actually dreaming, but I half-hear them and just get this weird feeling they are there. It’;s actually very frustrating, as it means whenver I get a fever I also get little sleep, whihc brings me to my one drug-related hallucination.
I had the flu, and had the experience described above, and drank waaaaaay to much Dayquil the morning after. For those not in ther know, Dayquil has DXM, an cough-suppressant that, in large doses, is a mild hallucinagin. Well, the combo of fever, DXM, and sleeplessness made me quite loopy. I didn’t see things that weren’t there, but everything I saw was a bit…off, I guess is the est way to put it.
I have done both Acid, Mushrooms and a certin Research Chemical in the past, and have had many hallucinations. Most times they center around (and this is very hard to explain in words) parts of other things moving when they are not supposed too.
Confused yet?
Example. I was tripping with a girlfriend once. She had a beautiful dragon tattoo on her arm done in a Mayan style. Down the spine of the dragon, were these small orange squares. I looked at her arm (tripping my ass off) and saw neon lines going in a clockwise position in each of those little squares.
I also get the walls breathing thing as well. That is VERY hard to deal with if you are in an environment that I don’t know well.
I have gotten auditory hallucinations as well. Mainly I will just hear various noises that aren’t there, but I have had conversations with people that weren’t there.
I have never done drugs (Just drink). Sometimes when I close my eyes I almost accidentally become visually aware of the darkness. It feels like I am seeing a vast expanse of nothing (if you can comprehend what I mean) If I then concentrate on it I can see faint objects and patterns. It is believed that with practice any human being can create imagery behind closed eyes while awake. Practicing it is also supposed to help your ability to lucid dream. You practice by consciously trying to see a square, a triangle (simple shapes) and then you move on to more complex shapes.
I’ve never seen it said, but maybe if you got really good at it you could create hallucinations with your eyes open (without the use of drugs of course).
I’ll sometimes hallucinate under conditions of fatigue and stress. It’s usually things like bugs, but once I hallucinated an entire jogger.
Not sure if these constitute “hallucinations” or not but several years ago I was hospitalized for a few days and had odd reactions to the drugs. In one instance I became extremely concerned to the point of obsession that Australia was going to run out of postage stamps and not once but twice I awoke from a troubled sleep vowing to dedicate my life to the cause of women’s suffrage.
Otto just reminded me of something. (funny post btw).
You can’t really call this an hallucination but it was weird. Once, I was so tired that I started to lose perception of vision in the middle of my view. I could see things unless I looked directly at them. It was in both eyes.
Another time I woke up and could only see the right half of my vision (from both eyes). It was as if only half my brain had woken up or was working. It cleared up after about 10 minutes.
When my labor was being induced with my first child, I was given Stadol. I saw lovely, green leafed trees growing all around my bed, swaying and rustling in a gentle breeze. It was very nice, really.
Back in my (much) wilder days… I saw “tracers” you look at a light (or taillights ) and when you move your eyes, the lights kind of follow in a line. I also tried to open a trash bag once, out of the box, and just COULD NOT find the opening. Must have spent ten minutes doing this. This was… 15 ish years ago, never did any of the REAL hallucinogens from the earlier times…
There are a couple different types of “hallucinations”, mostly due to differing definitions.
robgruver describes visuals (incorrectly called hallucinations). Visuals are the basis of most psychedelic drugs. You know what you are seeing is not real. Most people enjoy visuals. Common visuals are: walls breathing, intensified colors, stable objects looking like they are moving, tracers, etc. Cisco is absolutely correct.
Devena describes true hallucinations - the ones that you believe are real. These are very rare under the influence of lsd or mushrooms, only extremely high doses apply. True hallucinations require that you be delusional - unable to reason. These are quite scary and not desired by any drug users.
Another ‘visual’ this just reminded me of (not drug enduced)
Just a few days ago, with my eyes closed, I could see a very very intence purple blob in my vision. It was a dark shade of purple but somehow it was very very bright or intence. It lasted a few seconds.
When I was about nine, I hallucinated due to a very high fever (I think it was finally clocked at 107, tonsillitis). There were little paper towel rolls floating through the air with little clear men riding on them. Every few seconds, one of the men would fall off and dent the air. It really bothered me, all those dents in the air. My thumbs were also much too large and very clumsy.
When I was in college, a friend came over to hang out and play video games while I was writing a paper. I started seeing strange colors and words didn’t look right. I went to watch him play games for a while, and the ships were coming at me, out of the screen.
I told my friend how I felt and he looked at me strangely. It seems he had taken some mushrooms earlier that day, but never had any hallucinations. I stole his trip.
I used to get fairly vivid hallucinations with fevers. There are two I remember:
With the first one I must have been about 8. I had a fever, and I’d woken up in the night panicking. My mom took me into the sitting room, where I became convinced that she was going to kill me. At times like this, a hallucination is almost like the irrationality of dreams presenting itself in reality. She then became worried that I was going to vomit and took me into the bathroom. When I looked into the toilet bowl, I recall it looking exactly like a Roman coliseum seen from the top.
I must have been about 12 when I had the second one I remember. I was staying at an unfamiliar house with a fever and had woken in the night. I left my room and heard phantom schoolboy voices taunting me (I wasn’t being bullied at the time, amateur psychologists). This terrified me, and I fled into the sitting room where I tried to hide behind furniture. The more I tried to block out the voices, the louder they became. They eventually they subsided on their own. What’s strange about the whole episode is that it never occurred to me that there was anybody else in the house to whom I could turn for help.
I also used to have minor hallucinations with fevers, and always at night time. I often experienced the indescribable feeling that drug users often refer to (and musicians try to recreate), a cross between sound and touch, but seemingly big and obtrusive. Vaguely like a pole being pushed through your head, yet not painful. The other common effect was completely losing perspective – objects in the distance suddenly seem as if they really are that small, and those close are threateningly large.
Again, there is a clear relationship between sleep and hallucinations. That said, I think the mechanisms producing dreams and hallucinations are similar anyhow. I haven’t had any for years, but that could just be because I’ve had very few fevers.
Wow… I’d completely forgotten about that! I used to feel the exact same thing, though it was usually with all my fingers. Not the same as them being numb, but as if they had an unwieldy ‘aura’ around them.
) and when you move your eyes, the lights kind of follow in a line. I also tried to open a trash bag once, out of the box, and just COULD NOT find the opening. Must have spent ten minutes doing this. This was… 15 ish years ago, never did any of the REAL hallucinogens from the earlier times…