[SophiaG]

Ok so I've never been formally diagnosed as having tactile hallucinations but...

I just got done readong a thread on another forum about this, and related to it a lot.

When I was 16, I had a reiki session odne on me. And I came home....and felt a weird draft coming fromthe corner of a book case. I went over to the bookcase to check it out and figured it was a ghost. It felt cold, like a cold breeze. It followed me around my house and then became harassing, not letting me go to sleep by pushing on my bed.

I felt like I was being posessed. Lights flickered a lot during this time (or so it seemed). I couldnt sleep at my grandmothers house. I'd go into the kitchen and sit on the floor, because I felt like someone or something was sittin on the edge of my bed. I thought i felt a cat walking on the bed.

I was frightened out of my mind, sleeping with the light on.

I would try to talk to them because they'd signal their presence by a tingling sensation on my scalp (which I can still induce today upon will but it doesnt neccesarily indicate a presence). I would talk to them in yes, no, maybe's. But nothing they ever said made sense. Sometimes they'd tap me on the shoulder, or bump into me while I was trying to go to sleep.

I made everything go away by refusing to talk to them any more, and not concentrating on the tingles on my head.

But yeah, i'm thinking this was/is a tactile hallucination and I'm going to keep on ignoring it. It's just so hard, when people believe that ghosts/demons do exist. It's so easy to say that "no the gov isnt spying on you." or "of course you werent abducted by aliens" but people do believe you if you say you've had "paranormal experiences".

Tell me about your tactile hallucination experiences?

[BNLsMOM]

Sometimes I feel like bugs are in the food I eat and I have to take it out of my mouth to make sure I am not eating bugs. I also sometimes feel like I have a bug or several bugs crawling on me.

I have had a weird tingle up my spine that feels like water under the skin flowing up toward my head and I have had the feeling of bugs in my hair.

They're pretty mild and I am not even sure they are hallucinations at all.

[shaggy dog]

I've felt my wife rubbing my back and turned around to thank her only to find she was nowhere around. This has happened more than a couple times and now I'm just getting used to it.

[volatile]

Well when they told me I had tactile hallucinations I was experiencing this pain in my ankle. The first time I felt it I thought my cat was rubbing on my leg, so I reached down to pet him but he wasn't anywhere to be found. It was so weird. It would come and go and it was very gentle but after awhile it started hurting and it got so bad it was like a burning pain. That went away thankfully... Usually I will feel someone touching my back, like gently rubbing up my spine...
I've had so many different tactile hallucinations it's hard to remember them all, they usually revolve around something I'm paranoid about. Like bugs crawling in my ears...

[AlmendraLife]

some tactile hallucinations I have had are sharp sensations, and bugs crawling on me.

[infpman]

some of the stuff you guys mention sound borderline. I mean crawling sensation or sharp pains here and there...that's not hallucination in itself.