Hallucinations

Sometimes psychotic · Feb 25, 2014, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by eclipselightning

I almost constantly visually hallucinate but I used to only have auditory hallucinations about 4 months ago. Gradually things are getting worse though.

I usually see these giant germs floating in the sky and I see flies and black dots floating around. Also I see little flashes of light and these weird waves that look like they are pulsating. Kind of weird. Also shadows form out of nothing. It kind of looks like I stared at the sun too long.

Also have you considered retinal detachment these just don't sound like typical hallucinations....

TheOriginalMe · Feb 25, 2014, 10:39 PM

Are the aura that precede migraines considered hallucinations? I once saw flames shooting from people's heads (very pentecostal). As I've never had any psychotic episodes associated with my depression I was truly terrified. About 12 hours later I had a massive migraine, it was the first time I'd had classic migraine, although I've always had killer headaches without the aura.

blackwhitered · Feb 25, 2014, 10:50 PM

While I'm raving about Yayoi Kusama, I thought I'd include some quotes... I promise I'll stop after this!
"If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago."
"My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots."
"I’m here today from that institution and the doctor made me carry the pills to help me as well. I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.”
“I work as much as fifty to sixty hours at a stretch," Kusama wrote in a 1961 article of her entrancing, utterly consuming creative process. "I gradually feel myself under the spell of the accumulation and repetition in my nets which expand beyond myself, and over the limited space of canvas, covering the floor, desks and everywhere.”
This woman has done some 50,000 pieces in her life. Insane.
Also a few more images that were too good to resist:
Hallucinations

And here's a trippy piece she did (video):

wushuduck · Feb 26, 2014, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by eclipselightning

I almost constantly visually hallucinate but I used to only have auditory hallucinations about 4 months ago. Gradually things are getting worse though.

I usually see these giant germs floating in the sky and I see flies and black dots floating around. Also I see little flashes of light and these weird waves that look like they are pulsating. Kind of weird. Also shadows form out of nothing. It kind of looks like I stared at the sun too long.

This would describe my hallucinations, which have stopped since I started on antipsychotics. I've only had auditory hallucinations a few times but I still get tactile hallucinations, like feeling a cat brush against my hand but nothing being there.

Siena · Feb 27, 2014, 10:51 PM

I hear my dead grandfather talking to me whenever I see a possibility for something that could be a mind game. He tries to solve it with me, or solves the whole thing right away.

eclipselightning · Mar 16, 2014, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic

Visual Hallucinations: Differential Diagnosis and Treatment
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/fore...mics”/page/0/1

Have you had a full medical workup....there are some medical rather than psych conditions that have hallucinations....and they tend to be less complex so instead of seeing a person or animal or demon you will see a spot or flash of light. Anyway I put those links up with more info on some of the possibilities. Another characteristic of medical based hallucinations is that they don't always respond to meds so people will get worse instead of better etc. Anyway just wondering..

Yes I have had medical examinations for my hallucinations but nothing has come up. Thanks though for the opinion. I think it would be very scary if there was something physically wrong with me.

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