# Share your fever-induced hallucinations

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**Created:** [December 5, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-fever-induced-hallucinations/96976 "2001-12-05T04:17:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-fever-induced-hallucinations/96976/19 "2001-12-05T20:36:42Z")

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> \*Originally posted by erislover \*  
> \*\*Fevers always produce a distortion of size for me. I’m not sure how else to say it. Things are sized wrong. 😕 \*\*

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> _Oicu812_ **I get this wierd visual thing going, but it has not happened in years. I would see different shapes, kinda fuzzy, in the air in front of me. They would expand and contract at a high rate of speed, sort of like the camera effects from the '60s, zooming in and out, growing and shrinking very fast.**

I have very similar experiences, mostly in feverish dreams, but they give me such a bizarre feeling that I thought they were unique to me.

When I had mono, there were two hallucinations I remember best. One was a friend calling my name (he was three states away) over and over again at different volumes. Another was a picnic table that wouldn’t get out of my way. I kept trying to get around it but it would move to block my path. The scariest part was that the table was actually there, so I’d really bump into it each time I tried to walk away from it.

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