That must be absolutely terrifying. I am so sorry, are you working with your therapist to develop techniques to ground yourself when this is occurring?

However, there may be a true, and believe it or not, beneficial, role for these hallucinations in your recovery.

They may be an attempt to "resolve intrapsychic conflict through externalization" and when taken in context with your situation may make sense. To me, it's a way your brain is processing trauma, fear and terror. Hopefully with more confidence and reliance on the safety of your current situation you will be more able to access to source of the past fear, and less likely to experience these hallucinations.

Also, you are definately not alone in experiencing this. I found this paper for you, it is pretty easy to read for a scientific paper, and I learned a lot from it.

It's freely available so I doubt I'm violating any copyright law:

http://psychservices.psychiatryonlin...ull/50/11/1467

The words that researchers use sometimes sound so pathological, but remember they are simply descriptions and try not to associate too much to them.

Stay safe. (safe one)