What's with the hallucinations?

Question

I am 14 years old, and I live a normal life. The only stress I get is school related, totally normal stuff. I have NEVER done drugs, not even cigarettes, whip-its, or alcohol. Oddly, though, if am looking at the sky all I can see are the small things "swimmin" around. It's like what you'd see if you looked through a microscope. Actually, more sea-monkey like. And they're just floating there, in front of where I'm looking. Also, I was at an after school club, and I swore it looked like it was raining inside. Not just for a second, for the whole time. Yesterday I was walking to bed and Ithought I saw a drop of water land in front of me, and there was nothing there. I'm somewhat worried about my mental health at this point. Can anyone explain this? And please, I don't want to get 50 answers saying, "Get to a doctor, hon." I would like some explanation if possible, but if not, that's okay.

Answer 1

They're called floaters. I know someone (who does use hallucinogens) who experiences these. They are often caused by protein build-up with in the vitreous fluid of the eye. Although they're frequently cause by drug use, there are other causes. Some people get them as they get older. That doesn't seem to be your problem.

The general consensus seems to be that they are harmless unless you are experiencing more and more of them. If they bother you, you can go to an ophthalmologist (eye doctor) who may have suggestions as to how you incurred them. As of yet, there don't seem to be any cures or treatments for mild floaters. If they were obscuring your vision completely, you might be a candidate for vitrectomy. However, complications include blindness, so they're not done often. Doctors have been experimenting with laser treatment, but it's expensive and not completely effective.

For more information, check out the Wikipedia article.

Answer 2

There are two possible explanations. I'd recommend seeing and getting a good physical checkup especially your eyes. Sometimes, the eye has "floaters" that develop casting bubble like things floating in the air and black shadows. I've had that many many years. The other option is directly seeing an Opthalmologist, not an optometrist for a complete eye exam. If they find nothing wrong, then consider consulting with a mental health specialist about what's going on. Check out the physical possibilites first though.

Answer 3

Could be "floaters"...floaters are actually tiny clumps of gel or cells inside the vitreous, the clear jelly-like fluid that fills the inside of your eye.

Floaters may look like specks, strands, webs or other shapes. Actually, what you are seeing are the shadows of floaters cast on the retina, the light-sensitive part of the eye.

You are young to have this happen...there could be many causes that either may mean nothing or may be a sign of something serious...I had "hallucinations" when I was much older and it turned out to be blood poisoning...all in all I have to say you need to pay attention to what your body is saying to you...stay safe and have it checked out...

Answer 4

These are not hallucinations. They are your thoughts, feelings that rise to the surface and express themselves in any number of forms. It might be the simple stuff of daydreams, like when you are partly awake but a little bit asleep. Have you ever considered that what you are calling hallucinations and things that you think are bad may reflect a poetic/artistic nature. There may well be something inside you that needs to be expressed. It might be in words, music, dance or art. It's your life. Discover it !

Answer 5

Floaters most likely:

Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility within the eye's normally transparent vitreous humour.[1] They may be of embryonic origin or acquired due to degenerative changes of the vitreous humour or retina.[1] The perception of floaters is known as myodesopsia, or less commonly as myiodeopsia, myiodesopsia, or myodeopsia.[1] When observed subjectively, floaters are entoptic phenomena characterized by shadow-like shapes which appear singly or together with several others in one's field of vision. They may appear as spots, threads, or fragments of cobwebs, that float slowly before one's eyes. Sometimes giving the apperarance of rain.

Latin-derived Muscae volitantes (meaning 'flying flies'), or French-derived mouches volantes, are a specific type of floater consisting of small spots whose presence is normal and attributed to minute remnants of embryonic structures in the vitreous humour.[1]






Hallucinations
A hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus. Hallucinations may occur in any sensory modality - visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, or proprioceptive (sense of balance and position in space).



Various theories have been put forward to explain the occurrence of hallucinations. When psychodynamic (Freudian) theories were popular in psychiatry, hallucinations were seen as a projection of unconscious wishes, thoughts and desires. As biological theories have become orthodox, hallucinations are more often thought of (by psychiatrists at least) as being caused by functional deficits in the brain. With reference to mental illness, the function (or dysfunction) of the neurotransmitter dopamine is thought to be particularly important[5].

Psychological research has argued that hallucinations may result from biases in what are known as metacognitive abilities[6]. These are abilities that allow us to monitor or draw inferences from our own internal psychological states (such as intentions, memories, beliefs and thoughts). The ability to discriminate between self-generated and external sources of information is considered to be an important metacognitive skill and one which may break down to cause hallucinatory experiences. Projection of an internal state or a person's own reaction to another may arise in the form of hallucinations, especially auditory hallucinations. A few scientists have argued that such halucinations may be the result of other concious thoughts. In a 2005 study of pubescent males, it was discovered that 94 out of 100 males who claimed to be sexually attracted to a member of the opposite sex experienced hallucinations in which they sustained erections and inserted their penises in their partners mouths, vaginas, or anuses. Furthermore, in another study, males who claimed to be drug addicts or alcoholics reported hallucinations of drugs and alcohol use.

Answer 6

I dont think this is hallucinations.Sounds like floaters.A gel like fluid comesout and floats in your eye.Usally it is normal.A opthalmology can check your retina if you think its bad.

Answer 7

Sounds like your getting floaters.

Take a look at this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floaters

If this doesn't help, see a doctor.

Answer 8

wow that's so weird...lol, i guess (according to everybody else) it's floaters?