[Just a girl..]

So today I drove home in the COMPLETE DARKNESS all by myself for the first time ever......
You wanna know what's on my mind the whole way home.?
I was thinking about the "things" that appeared in my room.......................
What happens if that happens to me while I'm driving...?
I'd wreck. I know it. I was already thinking I was seeing and hearing **** today cause I was just THINKING about it.....
There was a point where I actually physically (not in my mirrors) but I physically turned around while driving to make sure there was nothing in my back seat......
I don't know what I'm supposed to do if this happens?
.........

p.s. I learned today that I absolutely HATE driving in the dark by myself, only because I'm afraid this is going to happen......................

[Victoria'smom]

Sorry, I have no suggestions. I want you to know your not alone things like that's why I don't have my licence.

["Tilly may"]

i was driving once and I saw a lion come through a picket fence. I knew it wasnt real, mind you it was during daylight. I just kept driving.

maybe you should tell your Pdoc and get some meds.

Prepare yourself before you get into your car. Check the backseat before you leave home if you feel you might be worried. Always keep your car locked so that no one
has access to it if you're alarmed by driving at night. Being prepared beforehand
may save you some hours of concern.

I always enjoyed driving at night because it seemed so peaceful--not much
traffic, quiet, and pleasant. Driving in daylight is also enjoyable, though, because
I find smooth traffic relaxing, but boy, when the smart alecks come along with
their speed and wreckless driving, things change rapidly. I often wish a patrol
officer happened to be there at that moment.

Take care; you'll be safe if you prepare the safety of your car before you ever get in it.

[Just a girl..]

I've done those things since I got my license.. I always lock my doors, and I always check in my back seat. but the things that I 'see' just appear. They don't have to be there when I get in, to be there while I'm driving.. I'm perfectly fine driving during the day. It's only the night that freaks me out because that's when I saw them before..

[faerie_moon_x]

I see things when I'm driving, and hear things too. It's few and far between, like my other hallucinations. Most of these happened during my early 20s. They are usually just "flashes," like so fast they are there then gone, that I don't always count them as hallucinations.

Once I saw the leg of a giant in my rear view mirror, standing on a median in the road. This was at night. Another time I saw a dark man, also in the median, but out of my side window. He was more like a shadow, but I could tell he was wearing a long coat and looking at me. I also saw a girl with wings another time, standing on the side of the road. Another time (and this had to do with my delusions of that time,) I saw all of the energy in the city pulsing up through one of the major skyscapers and into the sky like a beam of light. I was driving at that time, too, down the highway. It was right in front of me. All of these happened at night, now that I think about it.

The auditory hallcinations I had were in the middle of the day when it was light out, though. Seeing things in the road hasn't been an issue. I am driving, and I can keep going. The screaming ambulance was what really freaked me out. It was a real ambulance, but instead of a siren it was screaming like a man in pain (as loud as the siren should have been,) and it was going oposite me on the road, so it drove right passed me. I was sitting at a light, though. I've heard that same scream in my living room.

My advice is to prepare yourself. Get to know your hallucination. You know it's not real. You have made the first step. It's not real, it can't get you. It's just an image but nothing is actually there. Also, the more you work yourself up about it, the more you might actually will it to happen. If you see them at home, you can practice. Like if you see one just think or say, "Oh, it's just you. I'm trying to sleep right now. I'll talk to you later, good night."

[Trippin2.0]

You do know that thinking about a panic attack can induce one right? (first hand experience) So can anticipating an anxious situation make your anxiety skyrocket. (also first hand).... Idk if this one is possible because I dont suffer from paranoia, but once when I was high, I was worried I would become paranoid, and BAM! I was paranoid. So maybe even that one applies here.

My point?

Chill out. Breath.

You already do all the reality safety-checking before you start driving. What more can you do, hire a psychic before each drive?
You are driving yourself nuts with worry alone.

If you see something, you see something. If it freaks you out alot, so much so that you are unsure of its realness, then pull over and do breathing exercises until you realize it was never there in the first place.

Seriously chill, you'll give yourself a coronary worrying about something that may or may not happen, or may or may not have a negative impact on you

[Trippin2.0]

PS. I'm not being mean, but I am the one in the room who slaps the hysterical one so they can see reason. Literally.

To be fair though, I've gotten slapped when I went into a rage once or twice.
Hehe I have some brave friends

[Odee]

Originally Posted by "Tilly may"

i was driving once and I saw a lion come through a picket fence. I knew it wasnt real, mind you it was during daylight. I just kept driving.

maybe you should tell your Pdoc and get some meds.

There was an incident with a Wild Animal Reserve very close to where I'm at in which a man released about 50 wild animals including lions, tigers, bears, etc before killing himself. One of the big cats was hit by a car!!

18 Bengal Tigers!!

Zanesville Animal Massacre Included 18 Rare Bengal Tigers - ABC News

Not to scare you or anything!

[Just a girl..]

I'm a paranoid wreck.

[Trippin2.0]

Originally Posted by Just a girl..

I'm a paranoid wreck.

Then I strongly suggest you read my first post until its sinks in.

You're your own worst enemy right now and unfortunately there is no med for common sense.

[faerie_moon_x]

I do agree with Trippin. The more you dwell on it the more you're going to cause it to happen. It's that whole idea that you can draw things, both negative and positive, to you by focusing on them too much.

[ultramar]

I was already thinking I was seeing and hearing **** today cause I was just THINKING about it.....

I think this is basically what a couple of people are alluding to. You seem to realize here, though, at least on some level, that this is happening because you've convinced yourself that it's happening. I would try to think of it as some anxiety and not hallucinations, I think if you think of it in terms of 'hallucinations' you'll just unnecessarily freak yourself out. A lot of people get scared driving at night. Some people have made some great, practical suggestions as to what you can do to help yourself with this. Good luck and I hope your anxiety goes down soon.

[Just a girl..]

Thank you. I'll try to not think about it.

[Confusedinomicon]

Don't actively try and not think about it. Just let thoughts come and go. Its fine to think, just don't dwell.