[Yogix]

I put psychotic in quotes not to minimize the truth of the term, but because I don't know if what I experienced is considered a psychotic episode.

The other night, I was driving home from work around 12:30am, and as I was driving I started hallucinating. I've NEVER experienced that in this much detail or consistency. EVER. Mailboxes were looking like people and the flags on them, looked like knives. I heard a random voice, but it was more a thought that was really, just really loud in my head. I don't remember what it said, but as quick as I heard it, it went away and it was my normal voice. The streets seemed to be floating, and lifting on both sides, and I was in the deep end of it. Similar to a pool where the sides are curved up and I was at the bottom of the middle in the middle of the sides. I kept feeling that someone was in my car with me. There were other experiences but I can't exactly remember them at this time.

Has anyone else experienced anything similar? And no, I was not on any type of substance.

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[Sometimes psychotic]

Visual Hallucinations: Differential Diagnosis and Treatment

Here is a paper on the underlying causes of visuals...this actually sounds super intense. I actually always had trouble with visuals because I had no idea they weren't real they were usually more subtle for me I would change people's outfits or add something but I did have one where the center line of the road changed to a zig zag for a bit.

[faerie_moon_x]

Wow, that would be really scary. Especially the part about the roads.

My first visuals were subtle too, now that you say that. My brain added extra wheels to cars that were actually there. (In a row on each side like this OOO). And then the "auras" which were just white bright globs around people. It may sound rather dumb but it actually looks really strange and really freaky. It was later I saw the playground taht wasn't there, and then giant legs in standing on street cornners at night when I was driving. Those were always. I'd always look back after passing them and they would be gone. And now just random people pop up from time to time. Or the air will be full of bubbles (like the fiz in soda,) and the air feels heavy and hard to walk through.

But, it's not very often this happens to me. If this has never happened before, maybe it won't happen again? Or, keep track if it does.

[Yogix]

It's comforting to know that I'm not the only one that has experienced these. Especially when driving.

I just find it so strange that I'm 21, 22 next week, and have only now had this experience. I mean, I was well rested, very aware, sober. It was all so confusing. And scary.

There's also no history of mental illness in my family besides me (which confuses all my therapists/psychiatrists I've ever had) so that's even more confusing as to why I had this experience.

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