I don't want to confuse things, but during my episode I hallucinated while I was in a dream like state. I was 'awake', but all of my behavior was like it is when you're stuck in a nightmare. I was watching myself and I did all sorts of odd things like the strange things that can happen in a dream. I didn't think things through. They just sort of played out before me automatically. I was hallucinating the whole time and I told my therapist it was like my brain was malfunctioning and stuck in dream mode while I was awake.

I bring this up because I wonder if that's what happens to some of us. Our brains perhaps get stuck in brainwave patterns that generate waking dreams. I haven't researched this to see if there is anything scientific to back this up, but I wonder if maybe you were in a waking dream like state while hallucinating. I imagine strange things happen when the two worlds cross over. If there's any truth to this I then wonder how can we 'wake up'? I was given something in the hospital (Haldol maybe) that snapped me out of it pretty instantly.