Has anybody ever hallucinated?

Question

We've all heard the LSD horror stories but true hallucinations are seldom ever experienced on LSD (apparently). Obviously many other substances can induce hallucinatory experiences (magic mushrooms, various alkaloids, even opiates and many more). So whether your experiences were a result of illicit/non illicit (prescribed) drug use or just through severe trauma, shock, illness, sleep deprivation. I really want to hear your stories.

By the way a hallucination (in simple terms) is not just a distortion in your perception it is the act of experience something that is completely not real and perceiving it to be a "real" experience. I understand this must be difficult to classify and quantify.

Answer 1

ok, oh yes, ive hallucinated. i come from an era where your mates gave microdots away... (it was 30 yrs ago) and teh trips were very trippy... flashes and movement at your perpheral vison, everythign was funny... or heartstoppig scary... i watched alien one on acid... (it was wired thru my sound system) having someone screm suddenly isnt good... well it is, but not at the time. i watched nightmare on elm street on magic mushrooms... that made me jump... but no acutal hallucination...

then one year i got some alphabet (see i told you i was old) were secreted ourselves about 12 of us, in the sand dunes in porthcawl, miles from anywhere..deliberately. we lit a fire and dropped teh acid... again no aactual hallucination..but it was reqlly intense...primal, in teh midddel of nowhere, darkness all aorund and a cirlce of firelight, yep, we were safe inside the light... movement in the undergrowth and noises were pin sharp.i heard teh logs screaming as they were boiled alive, their sap oozing from open wounds where we have hacked tehm to the floor, inddiferent to their protests.

we howled at the moon that night...and in teh first rays of sunshine i decided to go to see the sunrise..we pete towshend reccomended it... or told us not to do it, either way..never miss an opportunity..so i walked off, away from teh fire...and i headed to the sound of waves... and teh sky got brighter, and i loked at the horizon, and i stood trasnfixed as the waves built, they ebbed away and rose, and kept on climbing...i watched in horror as a tnunami wave climbed up teh horizon. the line between sea and sky was gone..and still teh wave got higher..and then i fell over backwards.. damn that acid was good.

fed up of waiting to see the red disk rise, well, i turned around..and i didnt know where i was.. and i felt the panic rising... i was alone..no friends, no long stick with a sharpened point... i was totally paranoid..and lost.

well, it was good acid but it wasnt that good, coz logic kicked in... i looked at my watch and realsed i couldnt have been out more than 15 minutes... so i blundered around the greyness..oh boy waas i relieved to find the fire... i threw more logs on...i wasnt going to suffer alone...


right..turn teh clock forwards to 24th nov 1982... and i get smashed off my bike by some dick...and im really messed up... like ive been given the last rights messed up... House is stood in the corner looking worried..messed up)

only i didnt know this... coz i was out on my bike... i awoke, strapped to a hospital gurney..wires everywhere, machnes which went bleep... and a gaggle of guys in white coats talking about me... and i couldnt move...and i didnt know why.

i managed to get one hand free, and suddenly one of them poijnted at me..hes awake... and all eyes turned to me...oh fu ck..al i could think of the coppers had finally caught me, (d played fast and loose for years) and i thought this is it, these bastards are going to interrogate me...the wires the machines, being strapped down...and this one guy stepped towrds me... i hit him square in the chest wil a fulll locozade bottle and it exploded...literally as it smashed into the clipboard...I ll tell you nothing.. and i passed out again..

the nurses told me what had happened, and i did remember thnking Mi5 had got me, or special branch.... and i was done for.. but it wasnt... i lost a leg and the use of one arm in that crash and it was so real, better than any trip i ever had... pharmaceutical morphine and severe bodily trauma... not reccomended, but wow..

and for the record..i last tripped on acid in 1979... and on teh night of the crash, (the day before my 26th birthday) i'd just finished work and was on my way home...

but, im philosophical, im still here, still alive, stil working, and thankful, you may all se it as a limitation..not nearly as limiting as being dead...or paralysed... these are common biker accidents... ok so i ve to count in 15's..but my socks go further...and i can get my leg over at 30 paces... (what a party trick)

and to be honest, its all part of what i am. lucky.

drugs, like kalashnikovs are not inherently dangerous, its the uses to which we put them, these are to be our downfall.

Answer 2

I hallucinated when I was late 15 early 16. One night I was talking on the phone with my boyfriend at the time, and I became really paranoid suddenly. I thought that there was a clown under the desk, and I saw him. He was crouched under the desk with fangs, white makeup, a black nose, and this horrible laugh. I then heard a chainsaw, and thought my ex-boyfriend was coming through the door. I was alone in my aunt's home, and I looked up and saw him, with a chainsaw, wearing a Jason mask. I had not taken any form of drugs, and in the back of my mind I knew these things were not really there, but I was still very scared. Now I realize that I had an anxiety attack. I still have them at 20, but I usually don't see things. I've always had an over-active imagination, so that may be what it was. Also, the break-up with that particular boyfriend, he being my first and the relationship lasting so long, was pretty traumatic for me.

I also remember, when I was 2 to 4, I thought Freddy...the guy from Nightmare on Elmstreet, was sitting on my shelf waiting for me to go to sleep. I remember actually seeing him sitting there, but I'm sure, again, it was just my imagination.

Also, the last time I smoked marijuana, I think it may have been laced or something, I recall thinking that I was seeing sound and hearing color. I also remember that my rootbeer would fill back up and my peanut butter was growing until, the leprachaun stole it. I now realize that I finally managed to eat it all. Peanut butter and weed is not a good combination because of the cottonmouth. I also remember floating in my chair and having bricks on my feet when I walked.

Answer 3

I have had hallucinations whilst taking valium and sleeping pills, things like seeing a vortex that wasnt there etc. But I have had two experiences whilst coming awake from sleeping (not on drugs) in a possible 'hypnogogic' state. One where I thought aliens were outside because I could hear this whirring noise and bright light, and I thought my body was lifting out of the bed and up towards the ceiling, and the other I thought I heard evil chanting in my bedroom then my body was paralysed and I tried to move and I couldnt. I was terrified. And I do not have a mental condition and I am not a drug user, I just had bad insomnia for a while. Its a scary thing.

Answer 4

I have hallucinated on and off drugs. I was in a club once (I think it was Ecstasy I'd taken) and totally, 100% believed that all the other people there had been beaten up. Every time lights passed over their faces I could see black eyes, bruising and cuts on their faces. People kept asking me if I was OK but I was more concerned about them being all smashed up - it only lasted about 10 minutes or so but was pretty freaky.
I've taken mushrooms and seen bright colours on the walls and things sort of pulsating but I realised that wasn;t real at the time (as I was on mushrooms it was pretty funny though!)
I have also hallucinated when I was very sick with a massive fever. It was a strange hallucination though as it was very normal - I was in bed (which I really was) and 'hallucinated' that my husband came home from work early. I clearly remember him coming into the room, sitting on the edge of the bed and taking to me. I was very happy that he'd come home early but then I drifted off to sleep and when woke up he wasn't there. I got upset and called him and he said he'd been at work the whole time and hadn't been home at all.
The brain can do funny things.

Answer 5

back in the eigthies and early nineties i took acid tabs and magic mushrooms and had my share of hallucinations. i remember my fingers changing into scoccer players, i seen patterns on the wallpaper dancing and paint becoming fluid again and flowing of walls. even seen four men changing into two horses. the list goes on. however, in the back of my mind i always realise it was a drug induce reality not real. therefore i knew i could not defy gravity and try to fly or try to walk across water. i never had a bad trip or had the 'fear'(panic attacks). the 'fear' seem to effect quite a few of my contemparies and once that happen they never touch the stuff again. interesting point that i notice a lot of was religious or gullible people were mostly effected badly by their hallucinations, as though the temporary loss of there reality was to much for them. i suppose it's like drink some people can drink until the cows come home but most of us can't. i bear witness a few times to a mass hallucination of crowds of people who were convince of seeing moving statues e.g. a statue of the virgin mary weeping and none of them were on any form of drugs.

Answer 6

Yes my "FRIEND" thought it would be a good idea to put jelly diazepam into a bottle of beer when we were younger, and then go to a party
I was scared shitless, paranoid and had the strength of ten men... or so i thought until the police turned up, and I ended up getting arrested. tripping in a police cell is not nice trust me!
I was seeing allsorts, but for some reason I had a strange fixation on a ball, that kept coming towards me. It turned out that just before I was arrested, I was running to catch the aforementioned ball, and it was a bus, had to be pulled out of the way, and then kicked off with the person saving my life! nasty nasty stuff!

Answer 7

Yes I have had many halluciations when coming out of an induced coma after 5 weeks in ICU.

It was very frightening and I never want to go through that experience again.

Answer 8

I once hallucinated due to to dehydration.

I was caught in an avalanche while snowboarding one year. My friends and i stayed in my cabin in the French Alps, and one night there was an avalanche that buried the cabin in snow. The snow was very deep, and even though other friends stayin in a nearby cabin contacted emergency services, it still took 3 days to dig us out.

Our water source was outside, so there was very little to drink in the cabin itself, about 2 litres between 6 of us, if i remember correctly.

Anyway, that lasted about a day, as we didn't think we would be stuck for so long. We could hear emergency sirens going off, so we knew that people knew we were there.

But i we all began to get dehydrated, myself the worst. I was pale, sick, and freezing cold even though i was wrapped in many blankets. Then, suddenly, it just stopped. Headache went away, didn't feel sick, felt really warm. The room began to get smaller, and snow started to flow in from the window and wrap itself around me, keeping me warm. The room started to throb, then i passed out.

Woke up in hospital and explained to my family how the snow had kept me safe and warm. They told me i had gotten really bad, and then passed out. But my own memories are completely different.

Answer 9

LSD and mushrooms yes, and mild hallucinations from ecstasy... I hear if you want a very very strong hallucination to try salvia, rather you than me though.

Answer 10

Might have been laced with something, you could have been fading in and out of sleep though and just dreaming, but sounds like a trip. Rare for weed to do that, but it happens. If it happens every time though, it's laced with something

Answer 11

hmmm interesting question...I have never hallucinated from drug use.

I can lose my hearing and vision when I am hit with a traumatic event....That is very inconvenient when you need to leave the situation

I have had hallucinations during trauma..lets see...I know what I am seeing is not real...for example blood pouring from my arms and neck...I simply push it out of my mind and I am fine.

I saw my mother (a hallucination) rocking at home in her room she was dead and buried that day...a child's day dream...hmmm will you send me a message about your experiences...thank you.