Weird hallucinations…

[JonM]

After a negligible amount of sleep the previous night due to going out and drinking etc… added with some acetaminophen (Tylenol) for a little headache and during the day I didn’t get my normal nutrition, so by the end of the night, I started getting some minor “hallucinations” which were no more than just objects etc in the corner of my eye or in the dark appearing as something else for a second.

 

But when I closed my eyes to go to sleep that night the real fun began…

 

After a couple minutes of lying in bed, which is a place a normally use to collect my thoughts before sleep, I noticed that my overall mentality wasn’t normal. Then people’s faces started appearing vividly in the darkness of my closed eyes… and then fully rendered people. But they were not just images, I could feel and perceive their presence. If one of these people were close to my face it would feel completely as if there is a person close to my face. At one point if my eyes were half open the people would blend into the subtle dim geometrys of my room (window, shadows etc), so much so that I thought for a second a ghost or angel was hovering over my bed because I couldn’t make the hallucination go away even with open eyes (and I don’t even believe in ghosts or angels). The shadows wouldn’t appear as shadows even though I wanted them too, they would appear as people or the image and it took me at least couple seconds to snap back to reality. That was scary so I didn’t explore open eyed hallucinations like that anymore. Now for the interesting characteristics of the hallucinations of these people with my eyes closed…

 

They were rendered fully detailed and realistic (clothes, detailed facial features). The closest I can compare it too was like a dream where as in a dream everything is kind of like a blur but still realistic in that you can feel the people and everything there. I could “control” what people popped up fairly well, like say if I want a girl or a man, old, young, ethnicity to a degree etc and their facial features slightly (pretty, ugly, has a beard etc). But the people wouldn’t last, I couldn’t really “keep” a person there; they would stay for about a second and would morph into somebody with similar characteristics, or just disappear entirely and new people would pop up. Sometimes family members would pop up (they would stay for longer) but most of them were completely random people I have never meet or seen on TV (or maybe I have met them and they are just hidden in my unconscious). The people were in environments a lot of the times and I would be there as myself and in the environment talking with them and interacting with them (I’ll go into this more in the next paragraph), mostly dimly lit bars or like restaurants, many were holding drinks. (The reason for this is probably that I was out at bars and a restaurant last night with family.) I’ll admit that I tried picturing woman naked, but it didn’t really work, they would become vague and un-detailed and just morph into clothed people. I guess I don’t see enough actual naked woman to get clear visuals. On a odd side note with this when I first tried picturing and tried interacting with these woman in a sexual way, young children appeared in the bottom of my visual range and felt as if they were running around my legs…? I actually felt them as if they were touching my legs. Needless to say I stopped trying to hallucinate about sexual things…

 

Many would talk to me… things like Hello, Hi, “Who is this?” (girls would say that sexily) , “What’s your name?”, etc. the voices were very audible and resembled what the people would actually sound like. They would also talk to each other and smile and laugh. But it was all realistic, they way they dressed and looked, the environments they were in the things they said, it all made sense. One really vivid one I remember were 3 three girls sitting a bar holding martinis and drinks, one in the middle was turned towards the bar and the other two facing me and talking to me. I felt the atmosphere of the bar, as if I was standing right there. The one in the middle, a beautiful Asian girl, turned around and said to her friends with a smile as she looked at me “And Who’s this?”. I responded back and she said something else I don’t remember. Like this one it seems the more detailed and realistic the people and environments are, the longer that “scene” stayed without changing.

 

As far as my control of them, the people and things they did etc were really just random and not thought about prior too. I could give a direction to them but the environments etc were not forced really.

 

Some other interesting notes:

-They tended to appear on the left side of my visual range particularly, the left corner. (I’m thinking the right hemisphere would control this so this makes sense)

-Like I said before, everything was realistic, not only perception wise, but the clothes and facial features made sense.

- If they were to physically interact with me, or me with them, I would feel that interaction fairly realistically on my body (a touch etc) If I were to picture a girl lying in bed with me in my arms, it would feel exactly like that.

- I never took acid or shrooms ever, and I never experienced anything like this before. I haven’t even smoked marijuana for months. The only thing was some Dayquil a couple days ago, but that was a couple days ago, so it must just have been stress, relative malnutrition, tiredness, and the Tylenol.

- My dreams tend to focus on environments rather than interactions with people, I am also into architecture and doing landscape and environment oriented art. So I tried hallucinating fantasy environments but to no avail, which I found odd because I can even do this to a degree normally with my imagination. Perhaps this is caused by the fact that I was out the night before meeting people etc?

-I could almost turn these off for the most part, but it was hard too. When it was getting late I started thinking about other things and then went right to sleep.

 

So it was an extremely weird experience for me, but pretty cool nonetheless. I tried to write down here the scientific characteristics of these hallucinations for whatever purpose they might serve, as to understanding the unconscious or whatever, also to find out why this happened and if I am going crazy. But I will say that this account in not exaggerated in the least and it is really what happened…

 

I can still elaborate further, so if you have any questions I would be happy to answer.

[whap2005]

You better check the label on that Tylenol bottle again... or more likely, somebody played a joke on you and put something "special" in your beer when you were out earlier.

[ecoli]

moral of the story... DONT MIX DRUGS. Even over the counter stuff like alcohol and asprin. Two together do what one alone cannot.

[YT2095]

it sounds remarkably similar to a hypnogogic state, the alc and tylenol combined with tiredness would make this state much easier to acheive also.

[Royston]

also to find out why this happened and if I am going crazy. But I will say that this account in not exaggerated in the least and it is really what happened…

 

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Well the fact you're rationally explaining your experience and are not convinced you were visited by spirits et.c means you're not crazy.

 

Hallucinations can manifest for all sorts of reasons...lack of sleep, severe dehydration, and of course drugs...they don't necessarily have to be hallucinogens and it doesn't sound like you've been spiked with anything. This sounds much more like lack of sleep and nutrition.

 

I had a similar experience when I had no sleep for a few days...just alcohol and a mild stimulant were the culprits...and I had women coming out of my mirror, I was watching a programme on TV, only to find it wasn't plugged in half an hour later, and cartoon characters dancing on the walls, all very vivid and I had some control over what I saw.

 

If you had been spiked with a hallucinogen you would of experienced fractal geometric shapes, everything moving and breathing without you consciously thinking about it and a profound sense that you were on the brink of something amazing. If you had been spiked with an analgesic like Ketamine you would of noticed the physical effects just as much as the visual side. Most hallucinogens have almost identical effects on low doses...mescaline, psilocybine, LSD et.c DMT at low doses is the same...you really would know if you'd been spiked.

 

You done the right thing...relax and enjoy the experience, but I'd strongly recommend you don't try and induce this state again, because A. it's incredibly bad for you to starve your body of sleep / nutrition. B. the next time may be nightmarish.

[insane_alien]

hehe hallucinations can be fun. (i've never induced them with the aid of drugs) although it usually involves me no sleeping for several days cos i got lots of stuff to do.

my favourite one was when i seen loads of purple centipedes crawling out of walls.

[sunspot]

Hallucinations appear to be examples of projections from within, stemming from the unconscious mind. A visual projection can be seen as a movie projecting through the eyes overlaying reality data. These probably use senory wiring to create what appears to be a sensory input. Maybe rapid eye movement might reflect the electrical impulses from the unconscious mind going into the eyes. They then bounce back from the eyes into the sensory cortex to create sensory imagery. Your fatigued state made it difficult for the ego to repress these images so they became conscious. In psychology, these would represent the unconscious mind using projection to give insight to the conscious mind.

[Royston]

You're forgetting that hallucinations effect more than your sight.

[theman]

i often get acid flashback type hallucinations when i'm hung over.

[researcher88]

"moral of the story... DONT MIX DRUGS. Even over the counter stuff like alcohol and asprin. Two together do what one alone cannot."

- ecoli

 

Mixing drugs may be dangerous. I once heard there was a girl who mixed some drugs while attending a party and after a couple of drinks, she felt into a coma and never woke up again (turned into a vegetable.)

[JonM]

you misread me, I didnt mix... I took the tylenol for a hangover...I was sober for the hallucinations

[herpguy]

Can this explain many ghost sightings? I was watching a ghost show on the discovery channel and the guy said a lady suddenly appeared then dissapeared into dust quickly.

[who_knows]

Maybe it's early signs of Insanity? It can only get worse

[ecoli]

you misread me, I didnt mix... I took the tylenol for a hangover...I was sober for the hallucinations

 

Maybe there was still alcohol in your body when you took the tylenol.

[aj47]

Yes, i once had a horrible experience after a night out when I decieded to take the last co-codamol tablet I had along with an ibuprofen for my headache.

 

It basically resulted in stomach cramps, vomiting and extreme drowsiness for a couple of hours which really wasn't too pleasant combined with a hangover.

[mralex123]

I Went To A Party The Other Day...

I Drank Wayy Past My Limit, 3 Bottles Of Beer, One Whole Bottle Of Wine And At Least 5-6 Vodkas And Cokes.

The Next Day I Woke Up Not Feeling Myself.

When I Got Back I Jumped Straight Into The Bath And Had A Huge Meal.

After That I Attempted To Go To Bed... Thats Where It Started.

When I Closed My Eyes My Eyelids Became A Projection Screen Of The Events That Happend The Previous Night. I Could Hear People Screaming My Name.

When I Opened My Eyes To Try And Stop It I Found Orbs Floating Towards Me, When I Reached Out To Touch Them My Hand Would Go Straight Through Them And They Would Land Next To Me Then Disappear.

I Then Started To See People In Front Of Me, Random People, So.me Of My Friends, Some Of Family.

I Could Hear Nasty Things Being Shouted In My Ear.

I Was Completely Freaked Out And I Ran Downstairs Crying My Eyes Out To Find My Mum (LOL).

She Helped Me Out And Fixed Me Some Water Etc.

We Then Sat Down To Watch The Telly. When I Was Breathing Or If Someone Else Were Talking I Would See Smoke Coming Out My/Their Mouth.

I Just Ignored It And It Soon Went.

I Decided I Needed To Go The Toilet. So I Went, Turned The Light Off And Struggled To Open The Door, When It Was Dark I Was Overcome With Visions Of People And People Screaming At Me.

Everything Soon Went And I Awoke On The Monday Morning (The Partyy Was On The Saturday And The Hallucenations Happend On The Sunday In The Evening :-S). My Mum Asked If I Was Ok To Go To School... I Kinda Felt Ok You Know.

Then As Soon As I Walked Out The Door To Walk To The Bus Stop I Broke Down Into Tears. I Only Lasted One Hour At School And Had To Go Home.

And Here I Am Now, 5:55 On Monday Evening. I Feel Slightly Better Now, I Have Had No Visions Or Heard Anything. I Just Don't Feel Me. Got Bloody Mock Exams This Week Too! Better Be OK Tommorow!

 

A Few Points:

 

- I Did Drink Vodka And Wine Together, I Was Told Earlier That Wasn't A Good Idea For Some Reason

- I Wasn't Sick At All :-S, Not On Saturday, Sunday Or Today.

- I Had Taken No Recreational Drugs, Let Alone Medicine.

- I Was Very Tired.

 

Thanks

[insane_alien]

1/ you don't need to capitalise every word.

 

2/ you drank enough so that the next day you were likely still very drunk, i have been in this situation several times its not nice but you just have to deal with it.

 

3/ the tiredness, hangover(which i imagine was quite intense) and residual ethanol and ethanal in your system likely caused the hallucinations. get a good nights sleep, lay off the booze for a while and try not to think to much and you'll be fine.

 

4/ leave the heavy drinking till AFTER exams.

[npts2020]

Alcohol is a recreational drug.