Strange question - hallucinations?

Question

Has anyone ever hallucinated? Either induced or uninduced? What caused it and what did you see/hear/feel?

LOL I'll tell you what prompted the question: My brother recently took some tablets for his sciatica in his back, but started hallucinating as a side effect. He says a giant cranberry carton chased him down the road! I couldn't stop laughing but he maintains it was terrifying. Also when my mam went into labour with him she says that the stuff they gave her made her see moths flying about the ceiling. Has anyone had a similar experience?

*sigh* NO, I don't condone or want to take drugs. It was a simple question, now either answer it or just go away.

To minetheye... that is a wonderful answer thank you! My brother gets crippling pain, so bad that he cannot get out of bed. ah I wish I could remember the name of the drug it begins with a T... anyway it is a painkiller and he's stopped taking it and they've given him something else because it freaked him out something rotten. It also gave him the runs. Ick... I'm chuckling at some of the experiences on here!!! How strange they are!! Thankfully they know they're hallucinations so they aren't so scary if they know they aren't real...

Answer 1

here's a more useful answer:

yes, i've halucinated, both induced and not. i have paranoid psychosis, and it makes me halucinate whn i'm not on my meds. i dont always see things, tho. and that's my point here. halucinatons ARENT just visual. i thought my mom was trying to poison me, so whn i ate her food, i tasted poison. as a result of a taste halucination, i got sick to my stomache and threw up. i also heard an "evil me" yelling at me constantly, which is an auditory halucination. there's also smells, and tactile halucinations.

i self-medicated and did shrooms, which was self-induced halucinations. it greatly helped my problem because it was halucinations that i could control to a higher extent, and they were usually happier. but in no way do i condone this because it's different for everyone, and isnt healthy for anyone. i would see things like tunnels, and a friend of mine claimed she tripped that she was a dead bird. i tried to draw wht i saw once, but when i came to, it didn't look like anything associable, but that's ok, cuz i'm more of an abstract artist anyway :P

anyway, i notice that self-induced usually revolve around visual halucinations while uncontrolled halucinations are differing.

Answer 2

Yes - Once upon a time, some 8 years ago, when I was much younger and fitter, myself and some friends went out for a Friday night. After what can only be described as an 'eventful' evening we sat on the beach smoking and generally seeing whatever our chemically induced minds wanted to see. Now, there was 4 young men, laying on the beach watching the sea draw ever closer, smoking, drinking, laughing....... then suddenly in the haze, I could see a figure appearing out of the sea, a tall blond slim lady dressed in a red dinner dress. She lazily stepped from the sea, an in tow she had her pet, a pet piglet. She took a few more steps forward and then disappeared.

'So that was clearly a hallucination' I thought to myself, until the other 3 lads all turned at the same time and recited the exact same story!!!! A lady in red emerging from the sea with a piglet in tow!

To this day we can't explain why we all saw what we saw, we all remember it vividly, and we've all hallucinated before and since (although not naturally). It was fun and exciting, but get boring after a while, so we all grow up and just have fond memories of a youth 'wasted'.

Answer 3

Wow. I probably shouldn't even get started on this one.

Rest assured LSD and other psychedelics of the tryptamine and phenythlyamine category of drugs almost unequivocally do not cause "hallucinations" in the sense of the word that DARE taught you, or in the governement propaganda 'all drugs are just like jimsonweed' scare tactics.....

Generally fractal patterns, geomoetric shapes, vivid changing of colors, and things becoming 'moving rorschach tests', whether intended or not is genearlly the extent of hallucinations derived from the drugs that, in the general sense of the word, are actually considered 'hallucinogens." The real name for this class is 'psychedelics' which is derived frmo the word mind expanding.

The chemicals that are going to cause you to hallucinate the most realistically and scarily are heroin, when somebody is deep on the nod and in a state where they are awake but living in, essentially, an alternate reality behind their eyelids. People are often scared when they are in this state and something bumps them in the real world, their eyes pop open, and the one they'd just been in vanishes, replaced with reality. These are called CEVs or Closed Eye Visuals.

The only drugs, as a general rule, but not without exception, that cause OEV's as you've described are members of the disassociative and datura classes of drugs. Drugs in the disassociative grouping that could cause this are high doses, literally, enormous doses of dramamine, diphenhydramine (benadryl, tylenol PM, sominex), dextromethrophan (robitussin DM), and other OTC drugs. These experiences, as I understand it, are not fun at all. Also, most members of the Cyclohexylamine family such as PCP and Ketamine are disassociatves, which can cause intense hallucinations, however PCP is generally the only drug abused for this purpose, and people often end up doing terrible things while on it. Then there are the Belladonna alkaloids, Datura, Jimsonweed, etc etc, and there is a fine line between "high" and "dead" as the Belladonna alkaloids are known as being some of the deadliest on Earth. They also provide an intense uncomfortable high, which often lasts from houors to days, and provides the user with experiences ranging from euphoric to alien abduction scary. If a person is back to normal with 3 days of taking Datura, alive and they can still see, they are lucky. Finally, there is of course, a course lack of sleep (we're talking 5 or 6 days or more) from use of illicit stimulants which causes some of the most intense hallucinations out there. It is widely known as "speed psychosis."

Nobody sees flying carebears, or cranberry juice running after them, none of that stuff, unless your brother was on an intense dose of painkillers, way intense, and nodded off into an opioid induced state of lucid stupor daydreaming. This would be the same as described right off the bat, regarding heroin hallucinations.

The moths around the ceiling isn't really all that far fetched to have happen to someone, as rapidly moving geometric patterns and the right lighting could easily create that effect.

To answer your final question, no I haven't had any experience similar being chased by a carton of juice, although I may have a working knowledge of physiological and biological responses to chemicals in the psychedelic family, both from a researched and factually studied point of view as well as personal experience.

Don't take advice from people that don't know what they are talking about. If you want facts, go to this website:

http://www.erowid.org

It contains reports, chemistry information, harmful side effects, risks, realistic danger information, etc about almost every drug and research chemical known to man.

Answer 4

I have..... and it wasn't with illegal drugs either...... I took some prescribed pills and they had a wierd side affect. I hallucinated. I will tell you a lil bit about it. At first it wasn't too bad just a ceramic frog hopping across the floor and the curtains melting down the wall; however shortly after that I saw like 100 ppl standing outside in all black with machine guns. It definitely freaked me out. I have heard other ppl talk about taking drugs and having stop signs chase them...... I wouldn't know but it definitely sounds scary.... don't you think? lol. anyways hope this helps and good luck to your brother. It can be scary..... or just funny.

Answer 5

My mother was hospitalized once and was mistakenly given the wrong medication. When I visited she told me that the nurses in the hospital had some kind of satanic ritual in her room that she described in detail and no amount of reasoning could convince her that it did not happen. I dropped the subject and comforted her as best I could, reassuring her that I would get her out of that hospital. After a while she looked at me and smiled. She told me how beautiful I looked. I was not dressed in any special way. I was not even wearing any makeup or jewelry. I just said thank you but she kept looking at me with this big smile on her face. Then she told me how beautiful my blouse was and that she had never seen colors like that before. The blouse was a very ordinary blue. I was afraid to call the nurse in light of her other story and at least for now she seemed to be happy. When my sister showed up she kept telling her to look at how beautiful I loooked, how radiant my skin was, the beautiful colors of my blouse and on and on. I was very happy when the doctor arrived. She directed his attention to my ravishing beauty also. When I left the room she told him about the ritual that had taken place in her room. He told her that those nurses would be fired and gave her a sedative. After many years she still remembers all of this and even though she knows it was drug-induced it still seems real to her.

Answer 6

There are some narcotic medications used for pain relief that may cause such reactions, especially in the opioid family. In the 1950's and 60's they gave women a drug called scopalomine while in labor that caused them to hallucinate. I have had many surgeries and have been given some pain meds that caused all kinds of strange happenings. It's not unusual.

Answer 7

Ilegal drugs can cause you to hallucinate aswel as legal ones too. I work in the mental health industry so all my clients have at some point if not all the time experienced this. However, the worse experience I have had (a friend of mine this was) was with ilegal drugs about 10 years ago, He actually committed sucide because he thought a crocodile was after him. (he had at the time been watching a programme on crocs). I wasnt there myself but all his friends told me he kept shouting that the croc was gona get him!

Answer 8

Yes I have hallucinated. I frequently made bad choices when I was a teenager and took alot of acid and shrooms. Ive seen rainbows of colors which I cant complain about, but you've never experienced a great hallucination until Trolls(the ones with the jewels in their belly buttons) chase you around laughing until you jump on top of your dresser and yell "the trolls are coming".

Answer 9

Yup...I recently had major surgery & was on morphine in hospital. I saw all sorts of evil things coming at me out of the darkness. I knew it was the morphine, but at the same time it was so real!! Scary.

And to minetheeye...how calculating and arrogant of you to think everything that happens in the human mind can be qualified that easily. I'm quite sure many people have vastly different experiences in different scenarios, and for you to say "Well, this can't happen" is ridiculous.

Answer 10

I don't hallucinate things but I hear things which aren't there. I was driving along a road alone and suddenly I head someone shout "watch where you're driving!" A lorry had skidded out behind me and I hadn't seen it and was able to avoid it. Another time I heard someone in my little girl's bedroom going "shh shh" every time I went in to check on her. I don't believe in ghosts so I think it must be some part of my subconscious trying to protect me.