[dottie]

I am bi polar and also dx'd Schizophrenic. Early..this morning I heard my deceased MOM call my name. And I actually answered..."what"?

I DO belive in paranormal activity. But how the heck am I supposed to tell the difference? I hope I am being clear here.

I am also thinking that the recent death of my last brother..has taken a real toll on me in every way. What do ya'll think!!
dottie

Dottie, it sounds like grief to me but maybe you need to tell your T or P-doc just to be sure.

"It's not unusual for people who have lost a partner to clearly see or hear the person about the house, and sometimes even converse with them at length. These visual and auditory hallucinations are part of the normal grief reaction and a very real physical occurrence to those who experience them.

Sometimes these grief reactions are mistaken for signs of dementia or severe psychiatric illness."

Read more here...

I wrote about the visual grief hallucinations. I had a hard time for quite awhile with it.

Click here if you want to read...

[Perna]

If you had just awakened, could be a sleep thing too, leftover dream or thought. I searched my closet across the room once because I dreamed someone went into it (after coming in through my window) and I was just sure they were there.

Why is it important to tell the difference? I would "enjoy" them either way.

dottie-

I agree with Tunia, could be grief. --Great post Tunia!

I'm sorry for your struggles and losses dottie.... thinking of you.

mandy

[dottie]

Hi. Thanks 4 responding to my post. I was wide awake when I heard my mother calling me. She called me "Dorth". Thanks how she would address me in real life.

You see... I am seriously questioning whether there is life after death....and...my faith in God is on the line here.

In other words...was it just the awful stress of my brother's death...or, as some of my old friends and relatives believe..am I clairvoyant? I guess I might never know. And the Science VS. spirituality thing comes up.

Thanks to all who replied. It really gives me comfort to know that others can identify with me.

Take good care! dottie

these kinds of hallucinations are normal for scizophrenia. My son sometimes thinks his dead father is talking to him. at one point he hid our apparment keys in a hole in the ground in some ivy type bushes and after 2 hours of the two of us thrashing through the bushes trying to locate the keys that he told me had dropped he sat down and told me his dead father told him to hide my keys so that we could not move into a different appartment. After that from time to time he would be talking in his room and I would listen and hear him say - What dad I can't hear you very good. When I told his therapist she said he may be idolizing his father because he didn't have a chance to say goodbye. So my son and his therapist heald a mock funeral in therapy complete with his therapist reading parts of his fathers letters that I saved for my son to have when he is an adult. After that every time I caught my son talking to his dad he was telling him - you're dead, I'm alive. leave me alone. I have been pretty much told my son has schizophrenia but this state does not recognize that in children so he won't recieve that label until he is 18, and at this moment he is on medication - Resperitol and is not having any audio or visual hallucinations.