My family has a history of neurosarcoidosis. Two great aunties had "visions of angels", and I have cousins with musical hallucinations and night sweats. Recently many of my family and cousins have developed sarcoidosis as a result of an haemophilus infection that I contracted at work. In 1988 I had a series of very painful tetanus injections. A short time later I awoke one night and after about 15 minutes I heard one note, followed by another note etc. The sound was microtonal and vocal - like a "choir of millions of angels" singing in the cosmos - the music of the spheres? Then an angel of light started to emerge at the foot of my bed. At this point I freaked out and put the doona over my head, so I could no longer "see" the angel, but the music continued for a while. I've never had an episode since, but have had other sarcoid symptoms on and off over the years. In addition to the sarcoidosis I have a family history of mycosis fungoides and rare sarcomas and melanomas, mutations and microdeletions. I believe that there could be HTLV-1 proviral DNA involved and "borrelia-like" bacteria. Yes - Beethoven and Mozart probably "suffered" from neurosarcoidosis. I also have a family hx of autism etc.
